You purchase goods from a company outside the European Union and you intend to import these goods into the Netherlands, and consequtively sell them or use them in your production process. You (or your supplier) organize international air transport to an airport in the European Union. Once the goods have arrived in the destination country (e.g. The Netherlands), you will have to arrange 2 things in order to import your goods in a smooth and correct manner.
Following international air transport to a country in the EU, your shipment will be held by a 1st-line handling agent at the airport (e.g. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands). The 1st-line handling agent is the company that loads and unloads airplanes. Your shipment then needs to be released to a forwarder (e.g. J. van de Put). To this end, the shipment has to be cleared or it has to be picked up under the supervision of Customs (T1 transit).
Once your shipment has arrived at the forwarder, it is often the case that some further logistical activities have to be carried out. For instance, a shipment may need to be cooled down if it has arrived at too high a temperature. Or the shipment may have to be loaded onto pallets in accordance with your specifications. Perhaps the shipment will even need to be splitted, consolidated, or orders need to be picked.
Keeping this process on the right track requires a lot of knowledge and expertise. To this end, you are best off using the services of a specialist service provider such as J. van de Put.
If you are importing goods, then you will have to declare these to Customs. Consequently, import duties and VAT are levied on the shipment. It is often also the case that your shipment will have to be inspected prior to it being declared to Customs. In this regard you should consider phytosanitary inspections or inspections carried out by the Dutch Food & Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA). You cannot allow yourself any mistakes in this process; this could lead to serious delays to the shipment being released, too much taxes being levied, fines, or even the shipment being destroyed.
In order to run through the Customs process correctly, J. van de Put posesses all required knowledge of Customs legislation. All communication systems have been set up so as to achieve smooth completion of Customs formalities. Our specialists are familiar with your products, so they can draw up declarations quickly and correctly. They can also advise you on taxes to be levied and whether (and to what extent) your goods are liable to inspection by various authorities.
If you do business with J. van de Put, your goods will be Customs cleared in the Netherlands. They will then be delivered to your company outside of the Netherlands by means of an intra-communal delivery. The following countries are members of the EU and an intra-Community shipment is thus possible there. Therefore, if you have a company in one of the following countries you can use our EU import services:
You can, of course, sell your goods to a company or person in another EU country as well.
