Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for apprehending individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, stemming the flow of illegal drugs and contraband, protecting agricultural and economic interests from harmful pests and diseases, protecting intellectual property, and regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U.S. trade laws. CBP's primary trade automation systems are the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), the Automated Export System (AES), AESDirect, the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS / eAPIS), and the Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) program. Trade integrations are predominantly delivered through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messaging via ACE, with a small set of CBP web services (e.g., the AESDirect WebLink Inquiry API) exposed for programmatic use.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Customs and Border Protection the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Customs and Border Protection scores 26.1/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Customs and Border Protection
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Customs and Border Protection. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
APIS / eAPIS
The Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) collects pre-arrival and pre-departure manifest data on all passengers and crew members flown or sailed into and out of the Unite...
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
ACE is the U.S. Single Window through which the trade community reports imports and exports and CBP and Partner Government Agencies determine admissibility. Trade users access A...
Automated Export System (AES)
AES is the system through which exporters file Electronic Export Information (EEI) for goods leaving the United States. AES is integrated with ACE and supports both EDI filings ...
AESDirect WebLink Inquiry API
The AESDirect WebLink Inquiry API allows authorized partners to programmatically query AESDirect filings. CBP provides separate certification (test) and production environments ...
Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS)
ACAS requires inbound air carriers and other eligible parties to submit advance air cargo data to CBP for security risk-based screening prior to loading on aircraft destined for...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Customs And Border Protection Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Customs and Border Protection — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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