Open Harbor automatically flags these folks, calculates tariffs and prints out all the product compliance and shipping documents.

FORBES: Customs Solution

"Most white-collar people know us for shipping documents, " says Smith.

FORBES: Start the Ground War

Relevant to shipping documents but not freight.

FORBES: Start the Ground War

The World Shipping Council referred CNN to the documents it filed with the government, but did not provide anyone for an interview.

CNN: Plan to save whales strangling in red tape

It should also improve security, providing a common data set that gives the authorities electronic access to some 20 documents that describe who is shipping what, whence, whither and to whom.

ECONOMIST: Bureaucracy not technology