Foreign-Trade Zone

A new survey of 301 enterprise trade and compliance executives finds that 67% of FTZ users had negative audit findings in the past 11 months, and 87% report direct financial harm from inadequate FTZ software. ECI Research examines why fragmented toolchains are the root cause and why AI adoption requires a consolidated data foundation first. The investment case for FTZ platform modernization is no longer about future capability — it’s about stopping current-period losses.