Parties

Provide the parties relating to the customs declaration under “Parties”. You can provide details of the following parties: submitter, declarant, declarant’s representative, importer, exporter, buyer, seller and other trader (e.g. the party responsible for VAT). You should also provide here the number of the authorisation for simplification, if you already have an authorisation granted by the Customs Authorisation Centre.

General information about providing the trader identifier 

Every party to the declaration must have an identifier, either an EORI number or some other unique identifier. If the declarant and the declarant’s representative are businesses, both the declarant’s and the representative’s EORI numbers shall be provided. The importer’s EORI number must be provided also when the importer and the declarant are the same business.

The EORI number of a Finnish business is a trader identification number consisting of the Business ID and the country code (FI1234567-8). Apply for the EORI registration from Customs in advance, if you need it. If you are using another identification number, write the country code first followed directly by the number. Do not include spaces in the identification number.

In addition to this identifier you can also provide the trader office code issued by Customs. A representative must always provide their trader office code. If you provide the trader office code in the declaration, the service automatically completes, in the declaration details to be archived by Customs, the address details already entered in Customs’ customer register on the basis of earlier authorisation details. You can check your trader office identifier in our “My details” service.

Under “Declarant”, “Representative” and “Importer”, some of the details will be displayed automatically when you tick the box “Use the details of the authenticated trader”. The address details according to the trader office will then be completed in the declaration. As default, the address of the business’s head office according to the BIS is displayed as the trader office address details (trader office code “000”).

The periodic filing, i.e. the consolidated invoice, will also be sent to the address according to the trader office code you have provided, if the you have a payment deferment authorisation and you haven’t provided any e-invoicing address under additional information in the declaration.
If the trader doesn’t have an EORI number, provide one of the following identifiers:

• Finnish traders: Business ID, name and address
• foreign traders: VAT number, name and address
• Finnish individuals: personal identity code, name and address
• foreign individuals: date of birth, name and address.

Contact person

The contact person is the submitter of the declaration. Customs may contact the contact the contact person for further information.

If you have saved your details in advance in the settings, you can tick the box “Use the details of the authenticated person”, and the field for trader office code will be completed automatically in the declaration. If you’re not using the details of the authenticated trader, enter your name, email address and phone number in the fields.

Declarant

The declarant is responsible for placing the goods under the procedure and for the accuracy of the declaration. The importer is usually entered as the declarant. In the case of indirect representation, the representative is entered as the declarant. 

If you tick the box “Use the details of the authenticated trader” and you have saved the trader office code in advance in the settings, the field for trader office code will be completed automatically in the declaration.

If you’re not using the details of the authenticated trader, provide an EORI number, a Finnish Business ID or a private individual’s personal identity code as the identification number. If the identification number is an EORI number or a Finnish Business ID, the service will automatically complete the fields for name and address details as well as trader nature. Otherwise, enter the name, street address, postal code, city, country, trader nature and transaction language. Select the trader nature and transaction language from the drop-down menu. 
 
If you are completing the declaration as a representative, enter the importer’s identification number under “Declarant”. The identification number of a business is the EORI number and a private individual’s identification number is made up of the country code FI and the personal identity code. If the individual doesn’t have a Finnish personal identity code, enter the country code and the date of birth. The date of birth is entered in the format dd.mm.yyyy.

For a Finnish business, select “Y – Company/Finland” as the trader nature. Select “EORI” as trader nature only if the trader is a business established outside the EU, with an EORI number issued by Finland. 

If a foreign importer (e.g. a foreign corporation or a subsidiary of a foreign business) has both a Finnish Business ID for value added taxation and an EORI number not issued by Finland, do not provide the EORI number as the identification number under “Declarant”, but instead the Finnish Business ID.  Provide the EORI number issued by some another country later under “Additional information” with the additional information code “FIEOR”.

Authorisations: Details of a written authorisation granted by Customs

When you use a simplified customs declaration, the written authorisation has usually been applied for in advance from the Customs Authorisation Centre. Enter the details of the written authorisation here, under “Authorisations”.

Enter the authorisation number in the column “Authorisation number”. When you enter the authorisation number, the service will automatically complete the details in the columns

“Authorisation type”, “Holder of authorisation” and “Name”. Some of the authorisation details will be displayed in the customs clearance decision.

If you want to remove an authorisation that has been provided incorrectly, tick the box in front of the authorisation number column. Then click on the button “Remove selected”. 

Representative 

If you are lodging the declaration as a representative on the importer’s behalf, add your details under “Representative” by clicking on the button “+Add representative”  A forwarding agency, for example, can act as a representative. The representative must always have an EORI number. 

 

If you have saved your details in advance in the settings, you can tick the box “Use the details of the authenticated trader”, and the trader office code will be filled in automatically in the declaration. If you’re not using the details of the authenticated trader, enter the identification number in the declaration. If the identification number is an EORI number or a Finnish Business ID, the service will automatically complete the fields for name and address details as well as trader nature. Otherwise, enter the name, street address, postal code and city and select the country and the trader nature from the drop-down menu.

Select the status of representation from the drop-down menu. It can be direct representation, indirect representation or direct representation on guarantor’s responsibility. If you use direct representation on guarantor’s responsibility, select “2 – Direct representation” from the drop-down menu and tick the box “On guarantor’s responsibility”. 

Direct representation: A direct representative lodges the customs declaration on behalf of and in the name of the importer. The importer is responsible for the correctness of the information provided. The importer’s guarantee is used in the declaration, and the importer is responsible for the customs debt. The representative is responsible for the customs debt only insofar as they were aware or should have been aware of the incorrectness of information provided in the customs declaration.

Indirect representation: The customs declaration is lodged in the name of the representative but on behalf of the importer. An indirect representative is also responsible for the correctness of the information provided in the declaration. The representative’s guarantee is used in the declaration, and the representative is responsible for the customs debt. However, in addition to the indirect representative, the importer is also always responsible for the customs debt. The representative must also be the authorisation holder, and the authorisation must be applied for in advance.

Direct representation on guarantor’s responsibility The customs declaration is lodged in the name of and on behalf of the importer. The representative is responsible for the customs debt only insofar as they were aware or should have been aware of the incorrectness of information provided in the customs declaration. The representative’s guarantee is used in the declaration, and the representative commits to paying the customs debt up to the amount of the guarantee. 

Importer 

The importer must always be provided. The importer is a business or person that has originally agreed on the import of the goods and is therefore the consignee of the goods. 

If you have saved your details in advance in the settings and you are not using a representative, you can tick the box “Use the details of the authenticated trader”. The service will then automatically complete your details in the declaration under “Importer”. Otherwise, enter the importer’s identification number, name, street address, postal code, city, country and trader nature. The trader nature is selected from the drop-down menu.

Exporter

The exporter is the last seller of the goods before the import of the goods into the customs or fiscal territory of the EU.

Additional AEO supply chain actors

Select the trader role for an additional AEO supply chain actor. Provide the additional AEO actor’s identification number and trader office code.

Additional fiscal traders

Provide the additional fiscal trader, when you use the customs procedure 42 or 63 and the VAT is paid to another Member State, although the customs declaration is lodged in Finland. Also provide, in the field “Identification number”, the VAT number of the tax representative or the seller registered for IOSS.