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WO2000029995A1
WO2000029995A1 PCT/GB1999/003674 GB9903674W WO0029995A1 WO 2000029995 A1 WO2000029995 A1 WO 2000029995A1 GB 9903674 W GB9903674 W GB 9903674W WO 0029995 A1 WO0029995 A1 WO 0029995A1
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    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • the invention relates to networked computer systems and more particularly to on-line commerce involving equipment for use in the ordering and purchasing of goods across Customs Unions and Data Protection Unions by personal importers (that is to say citizens who are not trading in goods but who are purchasing goods for their own personal use).
  • Customs Clearance The process by which imports pass through Customs Union procedures is called "Customs Clearance".
  • Customs Union database • Addressing the Customs Union database with an address derived from the data defining and describing a physical product, and its original country of origin in an electronic shopping basket, together with the identity of the customer's Customs Union;
  • the method also includes the steps of- • Preparing an anonymised version of the transaction records for a government's statistical database and
  • the method according to one embodiment of the invention also includes the step of computing the cost of shipping and extended warranties for each of the goods in the electronic shopping basket.
  • Customs Union means for reading the appropriate classification code from the Customs Union database for each product in the electronic shopping basket; means for calculating the purchase price of each of the goods in the electronic shopping basket by adjusting the vendor's price in accordance with the rules of the
  • Customs Union and the said derived classification code means for communicating the said purchase price of each of the goods to the customer for acceptance or rejection; means for establishing (or confirming existing) financial service arrangements between a CyberShopping Financial Services Provider and the customer both of whom are within the Data Protection Union of the customer;
  • FIG. 1 shows a high level block diagram of an on-line electronic commerce system arrangement according to the invention
  • Figures 2 and 3 show a flow diagram of the operations of the system of Figure
  • Figure 4 shows an example of a format for Custom Union label.
  • Figure 1 shows an on-line electronic commerce arrangement in block diagram form according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • the system includes a CyberShopping System CSS a Consumer System CS and a Vendor System VS all interconnected by a Network NT such as the Internet. All of the systems shown in Figure 1 are computer based systems of well known type. For clarity of presentation Figure 1 shows a single Consumer System CS, Vendor System VS and CyberShopping System CSS. In practice any number of Vendor, Consumer and CyberShopping Systems can be interconnected by the Network NT.
  • the electronic commerce arrangement is based upon the existing internet shopping arrangements where a consumer such as Cl is able to access, by way of the Consumer System he/she is connected to, a Vendor System VS and thence a Vendor's Web site such as VI using the network NT for interconnection purposes.
  • the CyberShopping System CSS which is the essence of the present invention, provides access to a Custom Union Database CUD as well as to a Financial Services Provider FSP.
  • the CyberShopping System CSS allows access through a Compliance with Due Processes Restrictions ingress arrangement CDPR to information stored on transactions performed by the CyberShopping System CSS for Customs compliance investigators' CUCI as well as compiling statistical information SSG from the transactions performed by the CyberShopping System CSS after processing by an Identity Protector and Anonymiser EPA for analysis by Governments in the Customs Union.
  • the Customer needs to know the basic price of goods in the currency of the country in which the customer resides together with the import duties, Value added tax and shipping charges. It is the function of the CyberShopping System CSS of the invention to provide information to a customer so that the true price of the goods is identified, the necessary tariff and tax is levied and the vendor is provided with an appropriate customs paid label CLAB for attachment to or association with the goods for use by the vendor.
  • Figure 2 shows two entry ports into the electronic commerce arrangement where (i) a customer accesses an on-line shopping Vendor's site (Step SI) or (ii) where a surfer comes from a site where he has sought quotations on goods (Step S5A) and requires to find out how much they will actually cost to buy.
  • Steps SI, S2, S3 and S4 represent the usual on-line shopping process and will be traversed without entering the CyberShopping System CSS of Figure 1 if the goods to be purchased are to be delivered to the customer without being exported to a different customs union from that in which the vendor resides. It should be noted that during the on-line shopping process defined in Steps S 1 to S4 an Electronic Shopping Basket
  • Step S3 This Electronic Shopping Basket takes the form of a list of products the shopper identifies as wanting to purchase extracted from the Vendor's database of products for sale.
  • Step S4 When the Vendor System detects that the goods are to be sent to a country in a different Customs Union from that in which the Vendor resides Step S4 will produce a 'yes' output and the Vendor system accesses the CyberShopping System CSS entering it with the Electronic Shopping Basket ESB holding information on the goods and the basic price of those goods which the Customer Cl wants to purchase.
  • the entry into the CyberShopping System CSS is made at Step S6 in Figure 2 and the CyberShopping System CSS compares the Database of the Country of Origin DOC of all the Customer's selected goods with the Database of rules CUD for the selected Customs Union in Step S6.
  • TARIC Integrated Tariff of the Community
  • TARIC Integrated Tariff of the Community
  • This is a legal instrument which was created at the time as the Combined Nomenclature by Regulation 2658/87 (Article 2).
  • the TARIC contains a nomenclature in all eleven official languages of the European Union with a large number (in excess of 15,000) tariff lines. It shows all third country and preferential duty rates actually applicable as well as all commercial policy measures.
  • the TARIC database provides for each of the goods in an electronic shopping basket a TARIC code which is typically a 15 digit code including the eight digit Combined Nomenclature code.
  • the TARIC database contains for each classification of goods information on the tariff to be applied together with all third party and preferential duty rates applicable as well as all commercial policy measures, such as limits on the number of specific goods that can be imported into a specific country.
  • Step 6 of Figure 2 the entry step into the CyberShopping System CSS, prepares the appropriate TARIC information for each of the goods in the electronic shopping basket.
  • Step 7 compares the Customer's selected goods with a database GW&PD, provided by the vendor, of the weight and packing characteristics of all the Vendor's goods so that the shipping charges for the goods in the ESB can be calculated in Step S8 in Figure 3.
  • the shipping costs together with the Tariff's and local taxes for the goods in the electronic shopping basket ESB have now been computed.
  • the CyberShopping System CSS may also compute warranty charges based up one, two or more years of warranty for the products in the ESB.
  • Step S8 calculates the real cost of the goods in the ESB which will include Tariffs, Local Tax, shipping costs and Warranty costs if necessary. Although warranty costs are optional they are of some significance to the customer when buying goods from a vendor outside of the country of residence of the customer.
  • the CyberShopping System proprietor can arrange to provide replacement or repair warranties for the goods ordered by the customer using the CyberShopping System and the charge for these warranties accordingly.
  • Step 8 will also include the operation of returning to the customer the calculated real cost of the goods.
  • the real cost calculation operations performed in Step 8 will be as follows:-
  • Step 10 will be performed if the customer decides to continue with the transaction. At this stage the customer will be signed up for CyberShopping finance or if he/she is an existing CyberShopping customer with an appropriate CyberShopping account to which the transactions can be charged in Step Sl l using the Customer Accounts Database CAD.
  • Step S12 completes the transaction as far as the Vendor is concerned by returning the ESB to the Vendor System thereby ordering the goods.
  • the order is accompanied by a data file from which the customs label CLAB may be generated by the Vendor.
  • the customs label will identify the registration number of the personal importer (i.e. the CyberShopping customer) and a CyberShopping shipment reference.
  • the customs label may include a bar-code identifying the personal importer and the shipment reference so that customs checks can be performed on the imported package bearing the customs label.
  • a typical physical customs label is shown in Figure 4. It should be noted that a dematerialised label could be associated with a product, such as music or computer software, which is delivered on-line rather than physically.
  • Step S12 also transfers to the Vendor the payment in the appropriate currency to the vendor.
  • Step S13 calculates the customs Duty and Tax paid and places the charges in a file for transfer to the Customs authority.
  • Step S14 prepares anonymised data for government statistics to ensure the system integrity Steps S6 to S14 will be performed in a secure manner using firewall technology and encryption.
  • the CyberShopping System of the invention is ideally suited to maintaining the highest Data Protection Standards, as is required for example within the European Union.
  • the CyberShopping System provides for the full and immediate implementation of such Instruments as the European Distance Selling Directive for example on all sales linked to warranty and extended warranties.
  • the CyberShopping System also protects tax revenue incomes for the Customs Union through on-line sales of goods being accurately declared and duties and taxes always being paid on consumer imports in an efficient manner.
  • the CyberShopping System of the invention also eases the problem created when physical goods are rejected by the customer as current Customs and Excise practices do not permit refunds of import duty and VAT on personal imports. Because the CyberShopping System of the invention levies import duty and VAT on personal imports upon the placing of the order the revenues will be available immediately allowing the CyberShopping company to come to an arrangement with the Customs and Excise Authority whereby the Authority will permit deductions of genuine refunds to CyberShopping customers.

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L'invention concerne un système informatique en réseau destiné aux échanges commerciaux de marchandises effectués en ligne entre unions douanières. L'appareil comprend un système de cyber-achats en ligne (CSS) connecté à un réseau en ligne tel que l'Internet (NT). Le système de cyber-achats en ligne (CSS) comprend une base de données de l'Union douanière (CUD) dans laquelle sont stockées les informations relatives aux tarifs et droits de douane applicables aux marchandises que désire importer un acheteur ainsi qu'un système pour préparer une étiquette de douane (CLAB) qui sera attachée aux marchandises commandées par l'acheteur.
PCT/GB1999/003674 1998-11-13 1999-11-05 Procede et appareil destines aux echanges commerciaux de marchandises effectues en ligne entre unions douanieres et unions de protection de donnees WO2000029995A1 (fr)

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