How Goods Across Borders is built
Measured numbers
Counted by the collection, not written by hand. A figure we cannot support is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Pages
- 7,584
- 2nd of 9 measured in Business/Trade, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- Page count has not changed: 7,584 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Uptime
- 99.99% over 30 days
- From the public status feed
- Deploys
- 3 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 16 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 6.4 KB · llms-full.txt 72.7 KB
- Feed
- Published
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 6 Oct 2026
- As reported by the site itself
Tech and AI search
Read from the live site on 2026-10-23: its homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt. A line we could not read is left out.
- Built with
- Next.js
- Read from the homepage markup
- Structured data
- Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- Search
- Search box on the homepage
How it is built, by role
The same roles apply across the whole collection. Nothing in this block is specific to this site; what the site says about itself is quoted word for word below it.
- 1
Edge network
Visitors reach a site through an edge layer: a content delivery network with a web application firewall in front of it.
- 2
Application host
The edge talks to an application host that serves the site and renders its pages.
- 3
Data
What the pages show comes from a relational database or, for a site pre-rendered at build time, from data files built into its release.
- 4
Scheduled measurement
The collection measures its sites on a schedule: content dates and site health nightly, page counts read from each site’s sitemap weekly. Every reading is kept with its date. A site too large to re-walk is not re-measured, and shows no trend.
- 5
Public status feed
A monitoring panel sends a signed report on uptime, deploys and backups once a day, and the Operations page publishes it. A figure on this page that comes from that report says so.
In the site's own words
Each passage is copied unaltered from a page the site publishes, with the address it was taken from and the date we took it. We add nothing between them.
“Goods Across Borders is a lookup-driven reference site for customs rules, commercial importing, and international parcel shipping.”
“The customs and import information that people actually need — what you can carry through an airport, what you can post internationally, what duties apply to a commercial shipment — is scattered across hundreds of government websites, in multiple languages, updated at unpredictable intervals, and almost never presented with clear sourcing.”
“Goods Across Borders exists to consolidate that information into a single, plainly written, fully sourced reference.”
“When we do not have a reliable source, we say “unknown” rather than guessing.”
“Duty-free allowances, prohibited and restricted items, cash declaration thresholds, and medication rules for travelers crossing international borders. Rules are indexed by item and by destination country so you can look up exactly what applies to your situation.”
“De minimis thresholds, standard duty rates by HS chapter and origin country, import documentation requirements, Incoterms reference, and country-level import profiles for commercial shipments. Includes a duty calculator for CIF-basis estimates.”
“Truth-first rendering: every section is conditional on its underlying source data; absent fields are omitted, never replaced with placeholder text.”
“Data is sourced exclusively from official customs authorities, international organisations (WCO, UPU, IATA, WHO), and carrier published policies.”
“Material corrections are noted in the changelog.”
Screenshots
Timeline
Page count has not changed: 7,584 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 7,584 |
| 2026-10-10 | 7,584 |
| 2026-10-18 | 7,584 |
| 2026-10-25 | 7,584 |
- 30 Sep 20267,584 pages
- 10 Oct 20267,584 pages
- 18 Oct 20267,584 pages
- 25 Oct 20267,584 pages