Catch the query first.
Customs judges your declaration the moment it lands. Nohena shows you that judgement first, while you can still fix it.
Nohena is the trusted pre-lodgement intelligence layer for African import compliance.
Illustrative assessment · drag the value to test it
Loaded and citable today
Clearance lifecycle
Eight steps. The first five decide the other three.
Nohena works the pre-lodgement half of the file, everything that eventually lands on the PAAR desk. Your agent and the agencies own what happens after. Select a step to see what is decided there.
PAAR
The control point. Valuation is accepted or challenged here, and the lane your cargo travels is set. Everything upstream exists to survive this desk.
Your file, read the way customs reads it.
Every field pulled, with its source page.
Weak scans get flagged, never quietly guessed at.
Every line gets the rule that backs it.
Ten digit codes with the heading chosen, the ones ruled out, and the citation.
Know the real cost before you commit.
Duty, levies, excise and tax on rates that stay current, not a stale formula.
Also checked on every consignment
Permit gate
Eight issuing agencies mapped by code and origin. Prohibitions block, conditional permits go to review.
Preferential origin
AfCFTA and regional rules of origin, the evidence each one needs, and the duty saving available.
Audit trail
Append only and hash chained. Every decision keeps its reason, citation and date, ready to justify later.
Two checks, both before customs sees it.
Nothing to integrate. No customs system is touched, and your agent lodges exactly as they do today.
See it on your own file ›See the query coming
Nohena classifies each line, builds the value properly, and names what will be challenged.
Match what was assessed
When the assessment lands, Nohena reconciles it line by line and updates the pack.
Fixed before lodgement, not after.
The same consignment, run twice. The duty is owed either way. What you avoid is the wait.
Illustrative figures, one 1,496 cc used vehicle. Nohena reduces held cargo, never the duty you owe.
We are a compliant firm that’s compliant itself
Your firm is walled off
Every organisation is isolated at the database row. Our own reviewers see an organisation code, never your name, because the next file in the queue may be your competitor.
Your documents do not train anything
Model providers work under no-training terms. What leaves the system is minimised and redacted first, and where it goes is written down.
Nothing is submitted for you
Nohena prepares. You lodge. No part of the system drives a customs platform, because a bot on your login would put your licence at risk.
Nothing ships unproven
No model, prompt or tariff change reaches you until it passes the evaluation set, and a customs domain expert signs off every rate and permit mapping.
Held cargo is the real bill.
Put your own numbers in and see what a year of surprises costs you.
Nohena does not stop customs looking. It moves when you find out.
{{ exposureDays }} container days a year waiting on something you could have seen.
What agents say after the first container.
The value flag paid for itself on the first container. We substantiated the freight before lodging, and the query never came.
I stopped guessing on mixed electronics. It tells me the description is too thin before customs does, and it names the rule.
My clients ask why duty moved. Now I open the log and show them the rule and the date instead of defending it from memory.
The permit gate caught a SONCAP certificate we did not have. That container would have travelled and stopped at the port.
Landed cost before we commit changed how we quote. We are no longer absorbing a rate change we found out about late.
The ones that decide it.
Anything else, ask on the walkthrough.