Swiss Companies.
Swiss Products.
Swiss Quality.
A more level playing field. Remove customs and administrative hassle from the customer experience — and compete across Europe more like an EU-based supplier.
One of the world's most competitive economies. One structural border disadvantage.
Swiss manufacturers can compete on engineering, quality, reliability and service. But a direct Swiss-to-EU delivery crosses the EU external customs frontier — a step an intra-EU supplier does not face in the same way.
Export · Border · Import clearance · Delivery
The product may be equally competitive. The buying experience is not.
Dispatch · Delivery
The customer receives an intra-EU delivery without an external-border import process at destination.
Move customs upstream
Remove import complexity from the customer's purchasing and delivery experience.
Europe isn't another export market. It is Switzerland's most important one.
More than half of Swiss exports go to the EU, while European industry is deeply integrated with Swiss supply chains. Reducing border friction therefore addresses a core commercial corridor rather than a niche export flow.
51% of Swiss exports
go to the European Union.
>CHF 1bn
in goods traded between Switzerland and the EU every working day.
>50% industrial inputs
More than half of Swiss exports to the EU are used by European industry as intermediate inputs.
Your customer isn't buying a customs procedure.
They want a price, a delivery date, an invoice and their goods. Importer questions, broker coordination, VAT advancement and customs-release uncertainty are friction in the purchasing experience.
Importer questions
Customers may be pulled into customs formalities that have little to do with the product they actually bought.
Clearance uncertainty
Destination clearance introduces another variable into transit time and delivery predictability.
Administrative friction
Broker coordination, VAT handling and country-specific processes can make a Swiss purchase feel more complex than an intra-EU one.
Don't ask your customer to import. Import for your customer.
Centralise EU import clearance in Germany. Use Procedure 40 for German deliveries and, where the legal conditions are fulfilled, Procedure 42 for immediate onward B2B supplies to other EU Member States.
Switzerland
Swiss manufacturer dispatches under one defined EU operating model.
Procedure 40 / 42
Central customs clearance · indirect representation · fiscal representation where required.
Released before distribution
Goods move onward in the EU after the central import process has been completed.
Move customs upstream. Move friction away from the customer.
The objective is not to remove customs — it is to handle customs in a controlled place before it becomes part of the customer's delivery experience.
Destination-driven
Customer involved in import · destination customs clearance · country-dependent process · customs uncertainty during transit.
Gateway-driven
Import handled upstream · centralised German clearance · one operating model · customs-cleared onward movement.
A more EU-like buying experience
Swiss product and Swiss quality — with less border administration reaching the customer.
From 4.7 days to 1.8.
A real-life customer migration from decentralised destination clearance to centralised customs clearance in Germany reduced average transit time from 4.7 days to 1.8 days while materially reducing returns and expanding the markets served.
LESS FRICTION
without asking the customer to manage the import process
→1.8days
→1–4days
→0.15%
→27EU markets
Fast is useful. Controlled is essential.
Procedure 42 depends on the legal and documentary conditions being met. The operating model therefore builds compliance checks directly into the flow.
VAT validation
Receiver VAT numbers are checked to support eligibility for VAT-exempt intra-Community supplies.
Onward movement
Transport evidence supports the immediate onward movement from Germany to the destination Member State.
Representation
Fiscal representation, Importer of Record and indirect customs representation provide the legal and operational backbone.
Your products already compete. Should your border?
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