Descartes Customs & Compliance
30+ year ABI leader for U.S. customs and compliance
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Market
- Enterprise
- Pricing
- Custom Quote
- Price Range
- Contact for Pricing
- Founded
- 1981
- HQ
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Free Trial
- Yes
- Parent
- Descartes Systems Group (NASDAQ: DSGX, TSX: DSG)
- API
- Not confirmed
Overview
Descartes Customs and Compliance has 30+ years with U.S. CBP as a leading ABI provider. It handles customs declarations, denied party screening, and trade compliance for enterprise logistics.
Our verdict
Best for global importers, customs brokers, and forwarders that need authoritative trade content and HS classification across 190-plus countries inside their ERP or trade systems.
Strengths
- Backed by Descartes Systems Group, a long-established publicly traded logistics technology company with deep customs and global-trade expertise
- Extensive global trade content covering 190-plus countries with millions of cross-referenced rulings, duty rates, and regulatory documents
- Trade Content APIs and prebuilt integrations for SAP GTS, Oracle GTM, and ERP, ecommerce, and TMS systems
- AI-enabled HS and HTS classification with landed-cost calculation, denied-party screening, and post-entry audit
Watch-outs
- No public uptime SLA, status page, or published security and compliance documentation for the customs product
- Pricing is only partially transparent and full functionality requires a sales quote and professional-services engagement
Integrations
This vendor advertises an API, but we haven’t confirmed public developer documentation. Work here? Confirm it →
Videos
Meggitt PLC: Enhancing Trade Compliance with Help from Descartes
Descartes Global Trade Content
Descartes Datamyne - Global Trade Intelligence for the Chemicals Industry
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Sources & verification
Last verified Jun 8, 2026 by Third Fin Editorial. See how we evaluate & verify.
- Api: Descartes CustomsInfo - Trade Content APIs (2026-06)
- Company: Wikipedia - Descartes Systems Group (2026-06)
- Pricing: Capterra - Descartes CustomsInfo (starting price, free trial) (2026-06)
- Product: Descartes CustomsInfo - How It Works (2026-06)
- Product: Descartes Customs and Regulatory Compliance (2026-06)