CAT360 for Brokers, Forwarders & Fast Parcel Operators

Analyse every import declaration you've filed, in minutes, not weeks.

Since 31 March 2026, your CDS reports (formerly MSS) are free to pull from HMRC: every import declaration you've filed, across all your clients, in one file. CAT360 turns them into a tool you can filter and search, so you can review every client's filings and surface the errors and reclaims that manual checks tend to miss.

  • Built by the customs consultants at Barbourne Brook
  • Used by brokers, forwarders and importers managing over £30bn in customs value
  • Post-clearance analysis, not filing software. Keep your declaration filing solution

Free data is the starting point, not the advantage.

Two things changed in 2026, and both are UK-only.

31 March 2026

Your CDS reports became free

What started as paid MSS reports is now free, self-service declaration data through the Government Gateway, going back four years. HMRC calls the service 'Get customs data'; the industry calls it TRE. As the declarant, you pull every declaration you've filed, across all your clients, in one report, with no client-by-client permission, because it is your own filing data. Every intermediary received the same access on the same day.

30 June 2026

PAS 41201, the Voluntary Standard for Customs Intermediaries

The HMRC-sponsored BSI standard takes effect on 30 June 2026. It asks intermediaries to audit their submitted declarations every quarter, on a sample of at least 5%, with documented results. CAT360 runs that review across every line, not a sample, and keeps the record the standard asks for.

Four years of declarations, across every client, runs to millions of rows. Manual checks and spreadsheets surface the obvious errors; CAT360 is built to find the ones they miss.

Seeing your declarations is not the same as knowing what to fix.

The CDS reports give you the rows, but not the context. The supporting invoice, the classification rationale, the sanctions screen and the FTA preference proof all sit elsewhere, so the rows on their own cannot tell you where a filing went wrong. CAT360 joins your declarations to live tariff, sanctions, FTA and classification data, and shows you, line by line, where the risk and the reclaim sit.

CAT360 Commodity Code Analysis: declared codes with duty rates, variance and AI descriptions, with one code expanded to show its full Trade Tariff hierarchy

Every declared code, joined to its full Trade Tariff hierarchy, duty position and an AI description of the goods, with a direct link to the commodity's page on the Online Trade Tariff.

Your CDS reports

Import header, import item and import tax lines. Millions of rows.

CAT360 reasoning layer

Joined to tariff, sanctions, FTAs, classification precedent and CDS guidance.

What to act on

Errors to correct, duty to reclaim, evidence to keep. Each line cites its source.

Post-clearance review across your whole book, at a scale manual review can't match.

Review your whole book

Every declaration, every client, in one place. It flags anomalies, duty and VAT that differ from the expected rate, and keeps a post-clearance amendment register.

Find errors across every client

Classification inconsistency across clients, missed FTA preferences, sanctions exposure on declared parties. Every flag cites the legal source and the original declaration line.

Evidence your quality

The PAS 41201 Evidence Pack: a quarterly review record across your declarations, an error and correction log, classification consistency. The documented audit results the standard asks for, ready to hand a client or a regulator.

Turn review into client value

Share a clear post-clearance review with a client as an advisory deliverable. The review the standard expects becomes a service you can offer, rather than an internal cost.

We review filings. We don't file them.

Your filing software submits declarations to HMRC. CAT360 reads what it submitted, after clearance, and tells you what to fix. That's the whole point: we're the layer on top, not a replacement for the tool you file with. Keep Sequoia, CargoWise, Descartes, Langdon DMS or whatever you file with. We will never compete with your filing system, because post-clearance analysis is all we do. They file; we check.

The standard asks you to sample 5%. We review every line.

PAS 41201:2026, the Voluntary Standard for Customs Intermediaries, takes effect on 30 June 2026. Sponsored by HMRC and published by BSI, it asks intermediaries to audit their submitted declarations quarterly on a minimum 5% sample, document the results, and put right their own errors within 90 days at no charge to the client. CAT360 is available now and runs that review across your whole book, every declaration rather than a sample, and produces the documented record from your own filings.

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How the review runs.

Book 30 minutes, free

Tell us your firm and how many client EORIs you file for.

We load your CDS reports

With your permission, we pull your real declarations into CAT360 before the call. Single-tenant, EORI-scoped, and access is revocable at any time.

You see your own errors

We walk your filings live: the anomalies, the reclaim, the classification drift. You decide what to do with it.

Book your free CDS data review

Built by customs consultants, not a data vendor.

Barbourne Brook is a customs consultancy first. We built CAT360 because reviewing declarations at scale is difficult to do manually across a book of clients. Every answer cites its legal source and the declaration line it came from, so your team can check the reasoning. It supports their judgement; it does not replace it.

The questions brokers ask.

'The data is free now, we'll use a spreadsheet.'
Spreadsheets surface the obvious errors. CAT360 is built to find the ones they miss across millions of rows, and to keep the quarterly review record PAS 41201 asks for.
'Our consultancy already reviews our entries.'
So does ours. We built CAT360 because that review is difficult to do thoroughly by hand across every client.
'We're happy with our filing solution.'
Please keep it. CAT360 is not filing software and never will be. It reviews what your filing system has submitted, after clearance. You keep filing where you file; we review the result.
'We don't trust AI for customs.'
We share that caution. Every answer cites the legal source and the original declaration line, so your team can verify it.
'Won't a trader use this to benchmark us?'
Transparency tends to favour the firms doing good work. Adopting CAT360 first lets you evidence your quality before a client looks for it elsewhere.

Questions

How do you get my CDS reports?

You pull your declarant report from HMRC's 'Get customs data' service (the successor to paid MSS reports, also known as TRE), every declaration you've filed across all your clients in one export, and share it with us. Or you authorise us to pull it for you. Because it's your own filing data, you don't need each client's permission. You stay in control, and access is revocable.

Is the review really free?

Yes. The 30-minute review on your own data is free, and there's no obligation to subscribe afterwards.

What does PAS 41201 require?

PAS 41201:2026, the Voluntary Standard for Customs Intermediaries, takes effect on 30 June 2026. Among other things it asks intermediaries to audit their submitted declarations quarterly on a minimum 5% random sample, document the results, tell affected clients within a month, and correct their own errors within 90 days at no charge. CAT360 produces that review record from your own filings.

Is my client data safe?

The architecture is permissioned, single-tenant and EORI-scoped. Your data is yours; we don't pool it.

Does this replace Sequoia, CargoWise, Descartes or Langdon DMS?

No. We sit post-declaration, whatever you file with. Keep filing where you file. CAT360 reviews what was filed.

What does CAT360 cost?

We price against the consultancy hours we replace, not what a data feed costs. Book a review and we'll talk specifics for your book.

Do I need to be AEO?

No. AEO firms tend to get the fastest value because of the volume and complexity they handle, but any intermediary filing on CDS can use it.

See what's in your own filings.

Book a free 30-minute review. We load your CDS reports and show you the errors, the reclaim, and the evidence you can hand a client, all from your own declarations.