Temporary storage declaration or temporary storage declaration and presentation notification (FI337, FI335)

When goods arrive by sea, the shipping company which has drafted the bill of lading (B/L) is responsible for submitting the temporary storage declaration, and the shipping company operating the vessel is responsible for submitting the presentation notification.

If the vessel does not have an authorisation for a regular shipping service approved by Customs, a temporary storage declaration must be submitted for goods arriving on board a vessel from an EU port and unloaded in a Finnish port. The Union status of goods can also be declared using a temporary storage declaration.

A temporary storage declaration is submitted for undeclared goods (T1 status) in transit with an electronic transport document (ETD) that arrive on board a regular shipping service vessel. No declarations are submitted during port calls for goods that remain on board the vessel. If undeclared goods arrive under the T1 transit procedure, no temporary storage declaration is submitted.

A temporary storage declaration shall be submitted for all goods to be unloaded from a non-regular shipping service vessel. If proof of Union status has been obtained for Union goods from the Commission’s Proof of Union Status system (PoUS), a temporary storage declaration is not required for them.

When the vessel has arrived directly from outside the EU, an entry summary declaration is submitted in the first EU port. If the vessel continues to other EU ports, a presentation notification (FI332) is submitted for the goods to be unloaded in the subsequent ports.

A temporary storage declaration is to be submitted for undeclared goods (T1) that will be unloaded at the customs office of entry. No declaration is submitted for Union goods.

• In the case of consolidated consignments, the transport document type code N741 and the number of the master air waybill (MAWB) must be provided in consignment details of the master level transport document. In addition, the transport document type code N703 and the number of the house air waybill (HAWB) are provided in the house consignment details of the house level transport document.
• In the case of a direct air waybill, the number of the waybill (AWB) is provided both in the consignment details of the master level transport document and in the house consignment details of the house level transport document using the transport document type N740.
• In addition to the transport document, the Unique Consignment Reference number (UCR) may also be provided, if in use (WCO (ISO 15459) codes or equivalent).

If freight which is not to be unloaded in Finland has been loaded onto an aircraft at another airport within the EU and the aircraft continues its journey outside the Union, then no declarations are submitted in Finland for such freight.

Additional information code “FIOSP” is used when goods are placed under a customs procedure or re-exported immediately after presentation to Customs instead of being unloaded into a temporary storage facility. The goods are to be placed under a customs procedure or re-exported within three days from their presentation.

Examples:

• Goods arrive on a vessel, and an import declaration has been pre-lodged for them. Goods are not entered into the records of the temporary storage facility. Instead, an import declaration is either pre-lodged for the consignment or lodged immediately after arrival. Goods arrive on a vessel and, in the place of unloading, the consignee places them under the customs procedure for import or customs warehousing by entry in the declarant’s records (EIDR).
• Goods arrive on a vessel, and they are placed under the transit procedure at the harbour immediately after arrival.

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FIOSP – The goods are presented at a location designated by Customs”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• As the type of location, select “A – Designated location” and the qualifier “Z – Street address”, as well as the address details for the location.
  • In exceptional cases, you can provide the qualifier “V – Customs office code” along with the customs office code if no other specific location details are available.
  • The location qualifier “Z” or “V” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange.

Goods can be transported under a transit procedure also on non-regular shipping service vessels. In that case, the transit procedure is suspended during the sea transport. Even though the goods are not unloaded into a temporary storage facility, a temporary storage declaration (FI335 or FI337) must be submitted to Customs for all goods to be unloaded in the port of destination in Finland.

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FIOSP – The goods are presented at a location designated by Customs”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• As the type of location, select “A – Designated location” and the qualifier “Z – Street address”, as well as the address details of the location.
  • In exceptional cases, you can provide the qualifier “V – Customs office code” and the customs office code if no other specific location details are available.
  • The location qualifier “X” or “V” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange. 

More information:  

• Sea traffic

As for type of location, the places of entry for sea and air transports, i.e. ports and airports, can be so-called locations designated by Customs. When the goods arrive at such a location, but are not unloaded into a temporary storage facility in a port or airport, an import declaration may have been pre-lodged for them or they are presented as Union goods upon arrival. Therefore, storage at a location designated by Customs does not require an authorisation from Customs. The goods are to be placed under a customs procedure or re-exported within three days from their presentation. 

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FIOSP – The goods are presented at a location designated by Customs”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• As the type of location, select “A – Designated location” and the qualifier “Z – Street address”, as well as the address details of the location.
  • In exceptional cases, you can provide the qualifier “V – Customs office code” and the customs office code if no other specific location details are available.
  • The location qualifier “X” or “V” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange.

Direct transhipment means that the arriving goods are not unloaded into a temporary storage facility. Instead, they are immediately loaded e.g. from one aircraft onto another or from one vessel onto another. The goods are to be placed under a customs procedure or re-exported within three days from their presentation.

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code ”FISSL – Direct transhipment”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• As the type of location, select “A – Designated location” and the qualifier “Z – Street address”, as well as the address details of the location.
  • In exceptional cases, you can provide the qualifier “V – Customs office code” and the customs office code if no other specific location details are available.
  • The location qualifier “X” or “V” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange.

When a vessel arrives in a port area from another EU member state and fuel is transferred from that vessel to another vessel (bunkering), the transport operator carrying the fuel must submit a temporary storage declaration prior to arrival.

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• As the type of location, select “A – Designated location” and the qualifier “V – Customs office code” and the identifier of the customs office code at which the bunkering will take place
  • The location qualifier “V” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange. 
• Additional information code “FISSL – Direct transhipment” and the description “bunkering, X”, where the “X” stands for the port where the bunkering takes place.
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• Additional information code “FIXXX – Other additional information” and the description “unloading to ship X”, where X stands for the IMO number of the vessel to be bunkered.
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.

More information: Sea traffic

Customs can grant an authorisation to store undeclared goods briefly in a location other than an actual temporary storage facility. Using another location for temporary storage also requires an authorisation for an approved location (HPA) granted by the Customs Authorisation Centre. Customs issues a separate warehouse ID for the location.

The goods are to be placed under a customs procedure or re-exported within three days from their presentation. 

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FIHPL – The goods are presented at a location approved by Customs”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• As the type of location, select “C – Approved place” as well as the qualifier “X – Identification of warehouse” and the warehouse ID, “Z – Street address” and the address details of the location or “Y – Authorisation number” and the number of the HPA authorisation.
  • The location qualifier “X”, “Z” or “Y” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange. 

In some cases, when the import goods have been transported through a region that is not part of the customs territory of the EU, the customs status of Union goods must be proved. Usually this occurs in maritime traffic when Union goods are transported by sea between different locations in the customs territory using a route that doesn’t have an authorisation for a regular shipping service approved by Customs. 

For example:  If a vessel carries goods from Hamburg via the port of Saint Petersburg to Kotka, proof of Union status must be provided when the vessel arrives in Kotka.

If the consignment has a document accepted for proving Union status, e.g. a T2L document

When the consignment has a document accepted for proving Union status, e.g. a T2L document or an administrative document (e-AD), provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FITAA – Union status; T2L” and the description “IA Article 199”.
  • This detail is provided on the page “Transport document – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the house consignment details via message exchange.
• At goods item level, the customs status of the goods “C”.
• If a transport document covers undeclared goods in addition to Union goods, provide the customs status “N” for the third-country goods at goods item level.

If the carrier is authorised to provide the Union status of goods as an authorised issuer

If the carrier is authorised to declare the Union status of the goods as an authorised issuer through a loading list handed over for customs use, the company can declare both Union goods and other goods with the same declaration.

In that case, provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FIVAA – Union status; authorised issuer”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• Identifier of the authorisation for the status of authorised issuer (FIVAA) under “Authorisations”.
• At goods item level, under “Customs status of the goods”, one of the following codes:
  • N – all other goods
  • C – Union goods
  • F – Union goods crossing the fiscal border
    • Goods that arrive in Finland from a special fiscal territory of the EU, e.g. from the Canary Islands, or goods arriving in Åland from an EU territory other than Finland. The goods remain under customs supervision after presentation and they must be presented for unloading into temporary storage.

Providing the location of the goods

Provide the location of the goods according to whether all or just some of the goods are Union goods:

• If all the goods covered by the declaration are Union goods:
  • Additional information code “FIOSP – The goods are presented at a location designated by Customs”
    • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• As the type of location, select “A – Designated location” and the qualifier “Z – Street address”, as well as the address details of the location.
  • In exceptional cases, you can provide the qualifier “V – Customs office code” and the customs office code if no other specific location details are available.
  • The location qualifier “X” or “V” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange. 
• If some of the goods covered by the declaration are Union goods, and some are undeclared goods:
  • The identifier of the temporary storage facility under “Temporary storage”:
  • Type of location code ”B – Authorised place” as well as the qualifier ”X – Identification of warehouse” and the identifier of the temporary storage facility, The location qualifier “X” is not provided if you submit the declaration via message exchange.

More information: Declarations for arriving goods

An electronic transport document (ETD) is used as a simplification to place goods carried by sea or air under the transit procedure.

An electronic transport document refers to information in the authorisation holder’s data system to which Customs has access. When a vessel or aircraft departs from a port or airport, the carrier makes out a document in its system for declaring the goods loaded on board the vessel or aircraft.

When the goods arrive, a temporary storage declaration must be submitted for them.

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• Additional information code “FIETD – Customs status; electronic transport document as transit declaration”.
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
• Identifier of the authorisation for the use of an electronic transport document as transit declaration (FIETD) under “Authorisations”
• At goods item level, under “Customs status of the goods”, the customs status code, e.g. “T1 – External transit procedure”.

More information: Sea traffic

The additional information code 10600 is used when goods are carried under a negotiable bill of lading (to order) that doesn’t specify to whom the bill of lading is transferred.

Provide the following details in the temporary storage declaration:

• The additional information code “10600 – Situations where negotiable bills of lading that are “to order blank endorsed” are concerned, in the case of entry summary declarations, where the consignee particulars are unknown.”
  • This detail can be provided in the Customs Clearance Service on the page “Master level – Declaration header” or “Transport document – Declaration header” or via message exchange in the declaration level or house consignment details.
  • If the detail is provided in the transport document details, the consignee details are not provided for the transport document.

The PortNet number is provided when presenting goods carried by sea.

Provide the following details in the presentation notification or the combined temporary storage declaration and presentation notification:

• Additional information code ”FIPNN – PortNet number”
  • This detail is provided on the page “Master level – Declaration header” in the Customs Clearance Service and in the declaration level details via message exchange.
  • If you are submitting a temporary storage declaration, providing this detail is optional.