Trade Documentation
Preparing and checking the documents a shipment travels on, before they reach a customs officer who will not accept a correction.
Cargo does not clear a border; documents do. A container sitting at a terminal is almost never held because of what is inside it — it is held because an invoice disagrees with a packing list, or a certificate is missing, or a description is too vague to classify. This category covers the documents themselves: preparing them, checking that they agree with each other, and making sure they will satisfy an officer who has no interest in your explanation. The filing itself sits under customs clearance. Re-export files are the least forgiving of all, and the complete re-export documentation checklist lists every document in order.
Working out what a particular shipment actually needs, and preparing it. See import and export documentation.
Where goods were made, attested to the standard the destination requires. See certificates of origin.
The two documents that cause more customs holds than everything else combined. See invoices and packing lists.
Whether you are allowed to ship it, to that party, to that country. See trade compliance support.
Plenty of shippers arrange their own freight and only want the paperwork checked. That is a service on its own here, not something bundled with a booking.
A complete set feeds straight into the declaration, and where we are also moving the goods, into the transport as well.
Some destinations want documents attested or legalised before they will accept them, which is a separate process with its own lead time. Establishing whether it applies belongs at the quotation stage, not the week of shipping.
Why Cannata
Documents drafted by someone who never has to submit them are documents drafted without consequences. Ours are prepared by the team that then files the entry.
The same team prepares the documents and files the customs entry, so an error is our problem before it is yours.
Where the cargo is in our own warehouse, the paperwork can be reconciled against what is physically there.
Discrepancies are found at the desk rather than at the border, which is the difference between an edit and a delay.
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