Export customs declaration for goods in pipelines

When exporting goods in pipelines, the export declaration is lodged retrospectively one calendar month at a time. Lodge the declaration after the month has ended, no later than by the 10th day of the following month. Only the decision on release with certification of exit will be sent to the exporter. No decision on release and export accompanying document will be sent. 

You can start lodging the declaration by choosing the export declaration type “Retrospective lodgement of a declaration”. Under “Start to lodge a declaration”, choose “Export customs declaration for goods in pipelines” (FI595A). 
 
Read more on the Customs website.

The sections of the export declaration

The export declaration for goods in pipelines consists of four sections:

  • “Parties”, where the following details are provided: contact person, declarant, representative and exporter. 
  • “Declaration header”, where the header level details are provided, such as trader reference, declaration type, total amount invoiced, total gross mass, country of export, country of destination and location of goods. 
  • “Goods item”, where the basic information about the goods are provided, such as combined nomenclature code, description of goods, values and quantities, packages, export licence related to the goods, transport documents as well as consignee and consignor.
  • “Transport documents”, where only the means of transport at the border is provided. The service fills in the detail automatically.

Under “Parties”, provide the header level details of the parties.

The following details are mandatory: contact person, declarant, representative (if any) and exporter.