The Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) program emerged in Brazil in 2014 and comprises an integrated partnership between customs and the company, encouraging legitimate trade. However, there is great potential for growth to be explored, since most companies involved in the international logistics chain have not joined the program. This general work a broad research study carried out on the AEO program, contributing to the academic community because, through the research methodology of the systematic literature review, it was possible to carry out an AEO concept matrix, to draw a timeline with the main milestones to AEO in Brazil, identify the types of AEO operators that are different in the world, discover the profile of the brazilian operating companies accredited to the AEO and summarize and analyze the benefits found in the world in 12 macro benefits. As a contribution to the management of companies, the main characteristics and modalities of AEO certification were identified, such as becoming an AEO operator and, mainly, the various benefits found were analyzed, making it possible to recommend that these companies should join the program as safe and secure operators, enjoying harvests in the AEO. Through the case research methodology from secondary data, this work contributes to the customs authorities, by analyzing and comparing the difficulties of the AEO world programs and as future perspectives of these programs and, as the main objective of this work, suggesting opportunities for improving the AEO Brasil program to raise it to a new level of maturity and excellence.