Customs inspection of the skills of fast customs clearance

 According to our years of experience, there is no way to completely avoid inspection. But there are ways to prevent it and how to deal with the inspection and speed up the customs clearance!

And it is important to note that during the unpacking and inspection, none of the customs officers are responsible for any damage to the product caused during the inspection, nor do they carefully repack the container. As a result, goods that have undergone intensive customs inspection may arrive damaged.

Customs inspection cycle and situation in each popular European country

1. Look at the German port first, the port is very strict on the quality of the product itself, labeling, and other supervision, over the machine inspection cycle in about a week, mainly to check whether there is contraband. If you open the box will probably check whether the name is consistent, the inspection cycle will be more than 2 weeks.

2. Belgium is more sensitive to textiles, 0 tariff products, high inspection rate, inspection cycle from 2 weeks, such as manual open box inspection even up to 1 month.

3. Then look at the Netherlands, the Netherlands at this stage of e-commerce grocery customs clearance environment is not friendly, the inspection rate is very high but fast release and the average inspection time is 2 weeks.

4. Finally, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom is divided into 2 lines in the inspection.

Line 1 mainly focuses on document inspection, normal cargo clearance is assigned to line 1, and the inspection period is 3–7 days.

When the goods have problems in line 1, they will be transferred to line 2 for manual inspection, and the inspection period starts from 1 month.

If the seller’s VAT has multiple bad records of declaration will be blacklisted by customs, basically, each time will be directly manually open the box for strict inspection, consistent with the previous description of the trigger inspection.

Of course, the customs inspection process differs from country to country, and the inspection period is not the same. You can refer to the best according to their own situation.