Risk Management System enabling risk-based selection and automated customs clearance upon completion of compliance verification. The Risk Management System processes electronic import and export declarations to determine appraisal, examination, or clearance, issuing mandatory instructions to proper officers and permitting authorized deviation with recorded reasons. RMS links risk evaluation to electronic orders of clearance and enables automated machine release of declarations once Customs Compliance Verification is confirmed and duties are paid. RMS also selects cleared declarations for post-clearance audit under a statutory framework requiring primarily risk-based selectivity.