Duty Revenue

Government Border Control  ·  5 min read

Customs Valuation Fraud: The Revenue Leakage That Scales With Every Import Declaration

Undervaluation is the most prevalent form of customs duty evasion. Every import declaration is a potential undervaluation. Manual valuation checks cover a fraction of declarations. Statistical benchmarking models that compare declared values against market prices for the same commodity and origin detect undervaluation systematically, at full declaration volume, before goods are released.