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Calculation and Compliance Engine (AC2E)

Successful global trade requires accurate data across three critical areas: duty & tax calculation; prohibited & restricted goods screening; and denied parties screening. These functions are integral within Kona v2 and accessed via that API.

What is it?

The Aura Engine covers three of Hurricane’s core cross-border services provided within Kona v2.

Duty & tax calculation, prohibited & restricted goods screening and denied parties screening.

Delivered Duty Paid Solution

These API services can be accessed individually or via a single combined API call within Kona v2.

Hurricane’s Kona API can be seamlessly integrated into any front end or back end.

A front-end integration allows carriers, retailers and marketplaces to offer their clients a landed cost calculation or Delivered Duty Paid solution (DDP), and also offers the possibility to flag prohibited and restricted goods and/or denied parties before shipping or even before the order is completed.

What does it do?

the ACCE provides the following solutions within Kona v2:

Manage international taxes and duties

A real time duty and tax calculation, taking actual trade agreements, duty and tax thresholds and rates applied by the importing customs into consideration.

Easy
Calculations

Calculates the duty rate, tax rate, duty payable and tax payable in the currency of the sending or receiving country.

Prohibited & Restricted Items

Flagging of prohibited or restricted items, what can be shipped and where.

Denied
Parties

Identification of denied parties risks – Hurricane sources current information on denied parties, accessing information from over 250 key global and national lists.

Why is is important?

Regulatory events including the EU’s abolition of the VAT exemption on low-value items, the introduction of the EU’s Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) and the Import Control System 2 (ICS2), as well as the Type86 requirements in USA mean that accurate duty and tax calculations and rigorous compliance screening are requirements to succeed in global cross-border trade.

Key
Features

A key and integral part of Kona
Currency conversion
Multi-lingual
Speed – a single call can take as little as 100 milliseconds
Real-time checking on prohibited & restricted items and denied parties

Key
Benefits

What our
Customers say

One of the leading parcel delivery companies and a Hurricane customer.

Ed Ayyad, Director of International at EVRi, said:

“EVRi is committed to providing our customers with the best possible experience and a key part of this mission is ensuring parcels are able to move seamlessly on to their final destination.

“Achieving this requires the adoption of best-in-class technology and we are therefore delighted to announce that we have chosen Hurricane to be our global strategic partner for the provision of cross-border data solutions.”