Finnish Customs ends the use of the registered export customer status and the Registered export customer search
With the introduction of new export declarations on 5 October 2024, exporters can no longer use the current T extensions to specify their offices in the new declarations. At the same time, Customs ends the use of the current registered export customer status. The use of the Registered export customer search will end on 4 November 2024, when the very last message declarants have started using the new export declarations.
Registered export customer status is not the same thing as being a registered exporter (REX) in accordance with the rules of origin. The requirements for registered exporters and applying for status as a registered exporter in the REX service will be unchanged.
Exporters recorded in Customs’ customer register can link an export declaration to a specific office with the trader office code.
The details of the exporter are provided in the new export declaration under “Exporter” and under “Declarant”. The exporter must have an EORI number. For its own purposes, the exporter can link an export declaration to a specific office e.g. with a secondary reference number issued by the declarant.
Exporters that are in Customs’ customer register and have several offices, can request that an export declaration be linked to a specific office also by providing the three-digit trader office code (000,001 etc.) of that office under “Declarant”. The code is entered in the field next to the field for EORI number. In its customer register, Customs has generated a specific trader office code for each of the exporter’s offices that has earlier been given a T extension in connection with the registration of the export customer status or in connection with an authorisation decision concerning export.
If the exporter uses a representative and wants to link an export declaration to a specific office with a trader office code, the exporter must inform the representative of this code e.g. in the forwarding instructions for submitting an export declaration.
If no trader office code is provided and the exporter is in Customs’ customer register, the exporter’s address shown in the decisions on release for export is the address registered as the address of the head office either in the Finnish Business Information System or in the EORI database. Customs’ Customer register contains, based on the Business ID, all the companies that have received an authorisation decision for an authorised activity as well as the companies that have earlier registered as registered exporters and that have an EORI number.
As for exporters not included in Customs’ customer register, the address details are the details provided by the declarant in the export declaration.
Exporters recorded in Customs’ customer register can check Customs’ “My details” service for their trader office codes
In future, it will not be mandatory to provide the exporter’s and the declarant’s trader office code in the new export declarations. If exporters wish to use trader office codes, they can check Customs’ "My details" service for their trader office codes. The use of the service requires Suomi.fi identification and the mandate “Viewing of customs activity customer data”. The service displays customer details only for companies that have had an authorisation or a registration related to export, import, transit, warehousing or the tax border customer status in Customs’ customer register.
More information:
New export declarations to be introduced on 5 October 2024 (updated on 21 May 2024) (customer notice, 21 May 2024)
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