The file, ready before the goods arrive

With the importer's consent, signed and checked documents reach your post and the approving agencies before arrival. Nothing to integrate; every decision stays in your own system.

Customs before arrival

How it changes

  • TodaySupporting documents arrive as scans attached to the declaration, at the last moment.
    With SilaSigned documents reach the post as they are submitted, often weeks before arrival.
  • TodayA scan can't be verified: a forged or altered invoice looks like any other.
    With SilaEvery document is signed by its sender, fingerprinted and verifiable by its number or the copy received.
  • TodayProblems surface at the port, during inspection.
    With SilaThe checks have already run; each file is ranked by what they found and the duty at stake.
  • TodayUndervaluation is hard to prove.
    With SilaDeclared values are set against Kuwait's imports of the same goods and the exporter's own export declaration.
  • TodayApproving agencies meet regulated goods when they arrive.
    With SilaPAFN and PAI see them before arrival and plan sampling and inspection.
  • TodayQuestions go back and forth by phone and paper.
    With SilaQuestions and answers stay on the file's record.

What Sila does for you

Nothing to integrate

Officers use Sila in the browser, beside the clearance system.

Look up a shipment

By declaration, bill of lading, container or truck plate.

Verify any paper

By its number or the copy received: who sent it, when, and whether it has changed.

A filing package with the declaration

The check report and every document in one PDF the officer can verify.

Monthly integrity brief

For the head of each post: problems caught before filing, in aggregate.

Data in the WCO structure

Each file downloads on the WCO Data Model, ready for a clearance system.

Arrange a briefing for your post

We walk your officers through a shipment file and its checks.