Facilitating customs planning and clearance including creating in an
international customs server, in response to a signal communicated
through a client device coupled for data communications through at least
one internet connection to the international customs server, a master
customs planning record; creating a related customs planning record
wherein the related customs planning record is related to the master
customs planning record; calculating duty on the goods described in the
related customs planning record; storing the amount of the calculated
duty in the related customs planning record; incrementing the total
amount of duty stored in the duty total field in the master customs
planning record; submitting, to the destination country, payment of the
duty; creating, in dependence upon the related customs planning record, a
customs declaration form for a destination country; and submitting the
customs declaration form to a customs declaration forms database for the
destination country.