A country's Customs department is tasked with classifying and applying duties to goods that are imported into a country. Quite often a shipment is difficult to classify because well-defined rules can not be written for every product, and the Customs officer is forced to make a judgment. Illation SMART Technology is an excellent way to find out how close previous shipments match the current shipment and can give an officer a way to justify his decision and lower the time a shipment remains within the customs department.