Bonded warehouse
Bonded warehouse
A bonded warehouse is necessary if goods need to be temporarily stored during transit or import. This interim storage is free of import duties. Bonded warehouses are exclusively approved by customs authorities and monitored by them. Are you importing goods and you don’t want to affect your liquidity by paying customs duties too early? Then take advantage of a bonded warehouse! Goods are temporarily stored untaxed and with duty unpaid. As the owner of the stored goods, you can leave them with duty unpaid until they are sold. Transit goods can be stored without paying import duties. Customs duties are only payable after the goods are sold on. No customs-related fees apply to you. Goods must only be presented to customs authorities upon explicit request. Our customs experts take care of all the application formalities on your behalf and professionally manage your bonded warehouse.
We provide you with the NCTS transit documents, also known as T1 and T2 documents. The NCTS is a system that has been in use across Europe since 2005. No import duties are payable at the border. The goods can be declared at the desired location. Take advantage of the benefits of this convenient customs transit system with us! The formalities at the border are made simpler. You don’t need to wait at customs offices, as we take care of the declaration for you electronically.
For the interim storage of goods – free of import duties during transit or importation – you require a customs warehouse. Bonded warehouses are approved by customs and monitored by them. Speak to us about the options. Are you importing goods from China, for example, and you want more information? With an open customs warehouse you retain your liquidity. Customs duties are only payable if the goods are sold and leave the warehouse.
Do you need help with customs clearances? All goods which you are exporting to a non-EU country must first clear customs. Do you want to export goods to Ghana? Then you are obligated to submit an electronic export declaration. Our experts take care of this declaration for you and also compile all the required documentation. The data in this export declaration is transferred to the German customs system, ATLAS.
Are you looking for professional, complete customs clearances for your exports? Do you want to export goods to Israel and you require the corresponding customs clearances? We take care of all the necessary customs formalities and customs declarations using the export declaration form AES/EAD. The entire process of export customs clearances is handled for you by our customs experts. Contact us for more information!
We are one of the shareholders of Zoll Pool Hafen Hamburg AG. Therefore we have available a considerable bond, which enables us to open customs shipping procedure from every European port and airport. Zoll Pool Hafen Hamburg AG was founded in 2006 and provides their shareholders with customs bonds for their import containers. With this small to mid-sized enterprises are able to operate like big companies in the field of customs. With a customs bond of 33,33 Million Euro a customs clearance volume of more than 130 Million Euro merchandise value per week can be handled.
When importing into the European Union particular plants or crop products are herbal health supervised. Importing veterinary products or crop products could be a health hazard risk for humans and animals in the importing country. With this scheme of supervising these imports, the risk of implanting harmful organisms is extremely reduced. Phytosanitary documents, accompanying the consignment, are issued by competent authorities from the exporting country.
