Customs: Inside Anywhere, Insights Everywhere

This presentation highlights the changes in customs enforcement due to the increased use of technology, in particular the innovations in this field. Whereas technology up till today still is being used as a supporting tool for customs in detection of goods and its authentication to customs declaration data, in the near future one will see so-called autodetection of data and images.

Frank Heijmann is the co-author of the book 'Customs: Inside Anywhere, Insights Everywhere', published in 2023. This book describes how Customs have searched and found ultimately a proper balance between apparently contradictory tasks: on the one hand stopping international trade at the border to collect taxes and protect society's safety and security, on the other hand minimizing logistic delays and facilitating legitimate trade as as much as possible.

The presentation gives an insight into the contents of the book. This video is a recording of a presentation given by Frank Heijmann at the European Conference for Customs Practitioners in Vilnius, Lithuania (May 2023).