Modern Border Management and AI

Read this excellent article by my friends Michael Outram and Peter Swartz, “Modern Border Management: Leveraging AI Systems for Strategic Advantage”, that is published in the World Customs Journal (Vol 20, No 1, 2026).

Customs and border agencies face a five-dimensional challenge that no single tool or policy can address alone: securing against illicit flows, enabling legitimate commerce through surging e-commerce volumes, enforcing compliance across competing regulatory regimes, detecting grey-zone and hybrid threats that exploit cross-border systems, and safeguarding economic security across multi-tier supply chains.

The traditional framing treats facilitation and security as a zero-sum trade-off. This article argues they don’t have to be. AI-enabled systems, demonstrated through practical applications including automated value chain analysis and HS code assignment, can shift border management toward a positive-sum framework where better visibility produces both stronger assurance and faster throughput.

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