e-Customs Services

The world of customs services can be complicated and frustrating. Our e–customs expertise and coverage is very practical, serving a range of large and small clients, which includes transporters, forwarders, exporters and importers. SGS e-Customs takes the complexity and the frustration away from clients and offers a comprehensive solution to completing customs procedures.

To ensure customs compliance, we have a range of solutions to meet your needs. Whether you are a large multinational company wanting to take care of customs formalities in-house or a small to medium enterprise (SME) looking for an experienced customs agent to take care of your customs needs, we have the solution.

What are SGS e-Customs Services?

Our e-Customs services provide a comprehensive customs brokerage service and access to a team of customs and fiscal experts. They include:

• Customs transit and guarantees
• Import and export declarations
• Automation, data exchange
• VAT services/fiscal representation
• Origin services
• Consultancy
• Excise duty management

Brokerage solutions

With our brokerage services, you can save time and costs and reduce the risk of error when sending goods to mainland Europe and beyond. We make it easier for you to navigate the post-Brexit world by submitting your export declarations and drawing up relevant documents, such as certificates of origin and excise duties documents. Our brokerage team will ensure that your documents are processed correctly, to prevent additional tax assessments.

Software Solutions

As a user of e-Customs software, you can rely on our experts to support you if you have any issues, and you can rely on our customs know-how too. With our software, you can choose to either make your declarations in-house by hand, or to use a fully automated data exchange between your system and our software. You could also outsource it all to us and access our experts at any time, saving you money, time and stress.

SGS TransitNet

From January 1, 2021, any goods moving from the UK to the EU and vice versa require a transit declaration. To submit a transit declaration, you need a comprehensive customs guarantee and customs-adapted software, which can be expensive and difficult to obtain and maintain. SGS TransitNet, our unique digital customs solution, is web-based software that provides a cheaper, more efficient alternative.

With TransitNet, you can easily create and submit transit declarations to the UK Revenue customs system, which once processed are then transferred to the New Computerized Transit System (NCTS) – a network of 34 national customs systems. We also provide the guarantee. Free training is available should you wish to complete your own declarations.

Product conformity assessments

Governments in Africa and the Middle East require marking compliance for a wide variety of imported products. Marking indicates that your products comply with stringent local product safety and consumer directives. As a notified body mandated by the local authorities, SGS offers product conformity assessment services to help you through the process of achieving compliance so you can get your goods to market faster.

Why choose SGS e-Customs services?

Our e-Customs services enable you to:

• Meet the complex requirements for trading between multiple countries
• Manage your border procedures from end to end
• Ensure on-time delivery with our professional customs support, expertise and advice
• Simplify your customs processes
• Stay up to date with all relevant customs and tax regulations
• Access our e-Customs software solution to gain convenient online access to data

Professional Customs Support from a World-leading Service Provider

As the world-leading, testing, inspection and certification company, we offer in-depth expertise in trading requirements. With a proven track record in helping thousands of companies – from SMEs to multinationals – our fast, reliable service makes hundreds of thousands of declarations for organizations across Europe and beyond.

Our combination of expertise and software applications provides exceptional added value for the optimization of your processes.