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Topics

• Free trade agreements, origin
• Rules of origin of the revised PEM Convention
• Brexit
• DaziT transformation programme
  • Process simplification and digitalisation
    • Initial results
      • Applications already introduced
    • DaziT: for business
      • Business advisory group
      • Working groups
      • Technical information
      • Passar 1.0
    • Schedule
  • Organisational refinement
    • New job profile
    • Uniform appearance
    • New organisation
    • New real estate strategy
    • Cultural transformation
    • Modernisation of resources
  • More about DaziT
    • Videos DaziT
    • DaziT facts and figures
      • Simplification and digitalisation
      • Flexibility and mobility
      • Security
      • Agility
      • Involved parties
      • And more besides
• Foreign trade statistics
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    • Figure of the month
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  • Data
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    • Total exports / imports
    • Goods
      • Gold, silver and coins
    • Economic sectors (NOGA)
    • Trading partners
    • Cantons
    • Means of transport
    • Historical data
  • Methods/metadata
    • Methods
      • Definitions
      • Survey
      • Calculations
    • Metadata
      • Goods
      • Economic sectors (NOGA)
      • Trading partners
• Taxes and fees
• Precious Metal Control
  • Melting and assaying of precious metals
  • Commercial purchase of old precious metals (melt material)
  • Trading in banking precious metals
    • FATF / GAFI
  • Goods traffic
  • Responsibility mark
  • Official controlling and hallmarking
    • Certified raw material
  • Laboratory Accreditation
  • FAQ
• Foreign assignments
  • Airline Liaison Officers (ALO)
  • FRONTEX
  • Air Marshal / Ground Marshal
• Alcohol
  • Domestic production
    • Commercial producers
      • Bonded warehouses
    • Small producers
    • Agricultural producers
    • Contract distillers
    • Determination of alcohol content
    • Producing one’s own brandies
  • Importation
  • Exportation
  • Statistics
  • Taxation
  • Classification enquiries for spirits and alcoholic products
    • Notes on the taxation of special products
      • Alcopops, fermented pops and hard seltzers
      • Natural wines, liqueur wines and speciality wines
  • Selling and serving
  • Prevention and youth protection
    • Instruments of prevention
      • Education for sales staff
      • Test purchases
    • Alcohol tenth
      • Cantons' reports
      • Interesting facts
  • Advertising
    • Advertising guide
    • Advertisement submission
    • Report advertising offence
  • Ethanol
  • Ethanol- und Spirituosenregister
• Appeals
• Abolition of industrial tariffs

Information companies

• Importation into Switzerland
  • Special import procedures
    • Authorised consignee
      • 1 competent local level for authorised consignees and consignors with several locations
    • Temporary importation (CDTA + ATA Carnet)
      • Customs declaration for temporary admission (ZAVV)
      • ATA Carnet
      • Horses - Temporary importation
    • Processing traffic
    • Goods in storage
      • Duty-free warehouses
      • Open customs warehouses (OCW)
      • Warehouses for bulk goods
    • Rural border traffic
    • Horses – Permanent importation
  • Bans and restrictions
  • Taxes and duties
    • Customs duties
      • Customs assessment bases
      • Free trade agreements
      • Developing countries GSP
      • Reduced rates of duty depending on intended use
      • Remission of customs duties
    • Value Added Tax
      • Assessment basis
      • Reimbursement of VAT to companies
    • Tobacco Excise Tax
    • Alcohol duties and prepaid disposal fees
    • Heavy goods vehicle tax
    • Automobile Tax
    • Petroleum Tax
    • Incentive fee on volatile organic compounds (VOC)
    • CO₂tax
    • Trade in pharmaceutical products
  • Exemptions, reliefs and preferential tariffs
    • Tarif quotas
      • Status of collective quotas
    • Duty-free movement of goods
      • Domestic returned goods (returns)
      • Works of art and exhibition objects
      • Commercial samples and specimens
      • Rural border traffic
      • Non-profit organisations and relief organisations
      • Customs privileges for diplomats
    • Free trade, preferential origin
      • Authorities entitled to issue EUR. 1 / EUR-MED / Certificates of Origin
      • FAQ
      • E-Learning
    • Developing countries GSP
      • Authorities entitled to issue EUR. 1 / EUR-MED / Certificates of Origin
    • Processing traffic
      • Authorisation
      • Besonderes Verfahren
    • Customs simplifications
      • Relief of customs duty, depending on type of use
      • Pet food (feedingstuffs)
      • Yield figures
  • Modes of transport: road, post, courier, rail, air, waterway
    • Road traffic
    • Courier by post, online shopping, mail-order company
    • rail traffic
• Exportation from Switzerland
  • Special export procedures
    • Authorised consignor
      • 1 competent local level for authorised consignees and consignors with several locations
    • Temporary exportation of goods (CDTA + ATA Carnet)
      • Customs declaration for temporary admission (ZAVV)
      • ATA Carnet
      • Horses
    • Foreign returned goods
      • Simplified refund procedure: procedure with Swiss Post as authorised consignor (CH and FL)
      • Simplified refund procedure: procedure for other declarants
    • Processing traffic
    • Goods in storage
    • Horses – Permanent exportation
  • Bans and restrictions
  • Taxes and duties
    • VAT-exempt delivery
    • VOC
  • Exemptions, reliefs and preferential tariffs
    • Free trade, preferential origin
      • Approved Exporter
        • List of Swiss Approved Exporters
          • 2022
      • Registered Exporter (REX)
      • FAQ
      • E-Learning
    • Processing traffic
      • Authorisation
    • Import duty refunds
    • Non-preferencial origin
• Transit through Switzerland
  • Transit procedures
    • National transit procedure (NTP)
    • Common Transit Procedure (CTP)
    • Carnet TIR
  • Bans and restrictions
  • Taxes and duties
  • Transport process with Passar
• Domestic levies
  • Tobacco Excise Tax
  • Mineral oil tax
    • New marker for extra light heating oil
    • Biofuels
    • For tax-payer
    • Liabilities
    • Aircraft Fuel
    • Tax refunds
    • Statistics
    • Forms mineral oil tax
  • CO₂tax
  • Automobile Tax
  • Incentive tax on VOC
  • Spirits tax
  • Beer Excise Tax
    • Information
    • Graphics
    • Formulare
    • Fact sheet
  • Glass beverage containers (PDC)
• Road taxes, vehicles, vehicle drivers, travel documents
  • Vignette
  • Heavy vehicle charges (HVC and lump-sum HVC)
    • HVC - General / Rates
      • Toll terms
      • German Toll
      • Austrian Toll
      • Fuel Card Providers
    • Performance-related heavy vehicle charge - Vehicles licensed in Switzerland
      • Recording device
      • Refunds and benefits
      • Keeper of the vehicle software EmotachDirect
      • Phone numbers / addresses
    • Performance-related heavy vehicle charge - Vehicles licensed abroad
      • Detection device
      • Refunds and benefits
    • Registration office
    • Lump-sum heavy vehicle charge - Vehicles licensed in Switzerland
      • Vehicles on scheduled services
      • Refunds for trips abroad
      • Refunds for trips in unaccompanied combined transport (UCT)
      • Refunds for the transport of raw timber
      • Fun fair and circus vehicles
      • Export vehicles
    • Lump-sum heavy vehicle charge - Vehicles licensed abroad
      • Via – the application for PSVA collection
    • HVC III
  • Road vehicles
    • Importation into Switzerland
    • Exportation from Switzerland
  • Vehicle drivers
• Bans, restrictions and conditions
  • Security
    • Arms and ammunition
    • Goods with both civilian and military applications
    • Import Control System 2: ICS2
      • ICS2 Release 2
      • ICS2 Release 3
      • FAQ ICS2
    • Pre-arrival notification security (Security amendment)
  • Intellectual property, trade and culture
    • Watches, jewellery and precious metals
    • Transfer of Cultural Property
  • Economic and agricultural measures
    • Permit obligation (import and export restrictions)
    • Stocks of goods
  • Health, food law
    • Foodstuffs and articles of daily use
    • Therapeutic products and doping
    • Narcotics and precursor chemicals
    • Animals and animal products
  • Environment
    • Protection of species (CITES)
    • Hunting and fisheries
    • Hazardous chemicals and pesticides
    • Waste
    • Air pollution control and ozone-depleting substances
  • Monopolies (esp. telecommunications)
    • Telecommunications equipment, electrical appliances non-compliant
    • Jammers
• Most searched keywords
• Specialist announcements
• Opening hours and holidays
• Am I an individual or a company?

Information individuals

• Most searched keywords
• Documents for travellers and road taxes
  • Passport, identity card and visa
  • Motorway charge (vignette)
    • Motorway charge FAQ
    • Points of sale for motorway charge stickers
  • Heavy vehicle charge (performance-related and lump-sum)
• Travel and purchases, allowances and duty-free limit
  • Importation into Switzerland
    • Customs clearance application QuickZoll
    • Refund of foreign VAT
      • Refund of French VAT: end of exemption
    • Value added tax (VAT): CHF 300 tax-free limit
    • Duty-free allowances: foodstuffs, alcohol and tobacco
    • Fuel and vehicle repairs
    • Portable musical instruments
    • Watches, jewellery and precious metals
    • Food intended for holiday camps
  • Exportation from Switzerland
    • Leaving Switzerland with personal goods
    • Furniture, furnishings
    • Cash, foreign currency, securities
    • Returns, repairs, processing
    • Refunds of Swiss VAT
  • Transit through Switzerland
• Online shopping, mail and courier consignments
  • Importation into Switzerland
    • Receipt of letters and parcels
    • Customs clearance costs and parcel tracking
    • Taxes and duties
    • Refund of foreign VAT
    • Returns, repairs, processing
    • Gifts
    • Watches, jewellery and precious metals
    • Complaints
  • Exportation from Switzerland
    • Send letters and parcels
    • Returns, repairs, processing
    • Gifts
• Personal property, students, holiday homes, getting married and inheritance
  • Importation into Switzerland
    • Moving (household effects)
      • Vehicles
      • Horses and pets
    • Holiday homes
    • Getting married
    • Heirs (Inherited property)
  • Export from Switzerland
  • Transit through Switzerland
• Road vehicles and watercraft
  • Importation into Switzerland
    • Permanently importing into Switzerland
    • Using an uncleared vehicle temporarily in Switzerland
  • Exportation from Switzerland
• Animals and plants
  • Animals, animal products and protection of species (CITES)
  • Dogs, cats, domestic animals
  • Horses
  • Hunting and fisheries
  • Animal feedstuffs and animal litter
  • Plants, cut flowers and protection of species (CITES)
• Bans, restrictions and authorisations
  • Cash, foreign currency, securities
  • Weapons
  • Pyrotechnic items (fireworks)
  • Narcotics and drugs
  • Transfer of Cultural Property
  • Product piracy, counterfeits
    • Watches, jewellery and precious metals
  • Medicines (medicinal products) and doping
  • Radar warning devices
  • Citizens' band radio (CB radio)
• Declaring goods
  • Importation into Switzerland
    • QuickZoll: the Swiss Customs app for individuals
      • Privacy statement
    • Declaration box
    • Travelling by rail
    • Air travel
    • Cross-border flights
      • Use of uncleared aircraft
    • Arrival by boat
    • Temporary importation
    • Appealing against assessments
    • Violations and voluntary disclosure
  • Exportation from Switzerland
    • Declaring goods
    • Temporary exportation
  • Transit through Switzerland
• Opening hours and holidays
• Private goods - specific regulations

Services

• Services companies
  • Fast lane (pilot project)
  • Importation, exportation, transit
    • Activ
      • How to use Activ
      • Questions & answers (FAQ)
      • Terms of use
      • Privacy statement
    • Periodic
      • Privacy statement
    • Passar 1.0
      • FAQ Passar
      • Schedule
      • Technical informations
    • NCTS
    • E-dec
      • e-dec specifications
      • e-dec Info
      • e-dec Import
        • Electronic files (assessment decisions)
        • e-dec Easy
        • Registration
        • Pre-arrival notification security (Security amendment)
      • e-dec Export
        • Electronic assessment decisions in e-dec Export
        • Selection and transit webtool
        • Registration
        • Pre-arrival notification security (Security amendment) e-dec Export
      • e-dec web
    • E-Begleitdokument and E-Com
      • E-Begleitdokument
      • E-Com
    • Chartera Output
    • Customs Tariff - Tares
      • Customs tariff information
      • Free data delivery on customer's request
    • Exchange rates (sell)
    • RailControl
    • System availability
  • Road levies
    • Via – the application for PSVA collection
    • EETS
      • EETS Providers
      • EETS Users
    • e-vignette for companies
  • Domestic levies
    • Biera
  • Registration
    • Customs client administration – UID
    • Registration ePortal (Onboarding)
      • FAQ Onboarding
      • Description FOCBS business partner roles
  • Services
    • Refunds and reductions
    • Authorisations
    • Customs status, certificates, licences
      • Authorised Economic Operator AEO
    • HVC account
    • Duty-free warehouses
    • Centralized settlement procedure CSP
      • How does the centralized billing procedures works?
      • CSP Procedure
      • Opening a CSP account
      • Payments / invoices
      • Problems: questions and answers
      • Contact CSP
    • E-bill
      • Online banking
      • Accounting system
      • PDF invoice via email
    • Subscribing to news
• Services individuals
  • Importation into Switzerland
    • QuickZoll: the Swiss Customs app for individuals
      • Privacy statement
    • Import customs declaration e-dec web
    • Export customs declaration e-dec web
  • Road levies
    • Via – the app for PSVA collection
      • Privacy statement for Via
    • E-vignette
• News on services
• Contact details and opening hours
  • All hotlines
    • Service Desk FOCBS
  • Border crossings and customs offices, opening hours
  • Appeals
• Forms, factsheets and publications
• Am I an individual or a company?

Documentation

• Legal foundations
  • Laws, prescriptions, messages
  • Collection of charges
    • Value Added Tax
    • Customs tariff
    • Tobacco Excise Tax
    • Petroleum Tax
    • Road charges
      • FDF EETS and Fuel Card Providers Ordinance
    • Car tax
    • VOC
    • Spirits tax
    • Beer tax
    • CO₂tax
    • Infringements and voluntary declaration
  • Free trade agreements, origin
  • Non-preferential origin
  • Non customs tasks
    • Security
    • Intellectual property, trade and culture
    • Precious Metal Control
      • International conventions
    • Economic and financial measures
    • Health
    • State and other monopolies
    • Environment
    • Tarif quotas
  • Foreign trade statistics
  • Procedure
    • Authorised Economic Operator AEO
    • Customs simplifications
    • Rural border traffic
    • Processing traffic
    • Goods for nonprofit organizations and charities
    • Transit
    • Temporary importation and exportation
  • Consultations
  • Administrative agreements with the cantons
  • Business partner administration: Terms of use for Connex
  • Privacy statement for Via
• Regulations
  • R-17 Zollerleichterungen für Waren je nach Verwendungszweck
  • R-30 Free trade agreements (preferential origin)
  • R-243 Instructions about the application of the precious metals legislation (PMCI)
  • R-247 Guideline relating to the application of the Precious Metal Control Act for holders of melter’s and assayer licenses
  • R-248 Regulation on the framework conditions for contracts for official testing and hallmarking
  • Customs tariff – Tares circulars
  • Circulars - Free trade agreements (origin)
  • Circulars - Developing countries (GSP)
  • Circulars on miscellaneous topics
  • R-60 Non-customs legislative instruments
  • R-120 Cross-border movement of alcohol and tobacco
• Forms, factsheets and publications
  • Vehicles
  • Free trade agreements, origin
    • Importation into Switzerland
    • Exportation from Switzerland
    • Domestic
  • Value Added Tax
  • VOC
  • Road tax
    • PSVA
    • Refunds and benefits
    • Montagestellen
  • Tobacco Excise Tax
  • Transit procedures
  • Customs simplification
  • Customs Tariff - Tares
  • Authorised consignees and consignors
  • Miscellaneous
  • About the FOCBS
• E-Learning of the FOCBS
• Our films
  • Operations
  • DaziT transformation programme

The FOCBS

• Management
• Mandate
  • Service level agreement and budget with ITFP
• Organization
  • Organisational chart
  • Operations
  • Prosecution
    • FCA Special Formation
  • Other FOCBS directorates
• Legal basis
• Careers and training
  • FOCBS Campus
  • Apprenticeships and internships
• Top-class sport in the FOCBS
• Job opportunities
• Customs Museum
  • The Museum
    • Organisation
    • Partner organisations
  • Exhibitions
    • Exibition «100 years of the Switzerland Liechtenstein customs treaty»
    • Reconstruction of the pint-sized submarine of Ceresio
    • A border between poverty and persecution
    • Permanent Exhibition: a 1,935 km border in a museum
    • Previous special exhibitions
  • Visits
    • Information for schools
    • Discover Cantine di Gandria
  • Publications & Media
• Contact
• Facts & figures
  • Receipts
  • Narcotics
  • Medications and doping preparations
  • Migration
  • Animals and plants
  • FOCBS employees
  • DaziT
  • A day at the border

Contact