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The Web Transit service
The transit procedure can be used to transport goods from the customs office of departure to the customs office of destination without paying customs duties and taxes within the territories of the countries included in the transit agreement. Transports under the transit procedure, however, normally require a guarantee.
An electronic transit declaration must be submitted to Customs for all goods placed under the transit procedure. In the case of T transits and TIR transits, this can be done via the Web Transit service. Submission of a declaration via the web transit service does not, however, mean that the transit procedure has started. The customer gets a reference number for the transit declaration, and using this number the declaration can be accessed at the customs office, where it is supplemented with entries by Customs and a guarantee is reserved. The goods to be submitted to the transit procedure must also be presented at the customs office. At the customs office, the customer receives a Transit Accompanying Document (TAD), which shows that the goods have been released for the transit procedure. Only then can the transport to the customs office of destination begin.
You can create a declaration either as an unidentified user or as an identified user.
Unidentified users receive a declaration-specific reference number generated by the system.
Identified users can also browse their earlier declarations, use previous declarations as templates for new ones and edit declarations, as long as the editing takes place before the declaration is being processed at Customs.
Companies log in to the service using their Katso IDs (a Master User ID or a Katso ID to which the role CUSTOMS-Customs clearance has been granted).
The Customs Information Service, tel. +358 20 690 600, answers general questions about the transit procedure.
Before submitting a declaration, it’s worth while having a look at the user’s guide and the field instructions available in the Web Transit service. The user’s guide also for example describes how to fill in a declaration for a TIR transport with several places of loading.
If you have any questions regarding use of the Web Transit service, please call the phone-in support at +358 20 690 618 (8 am to 3 pm) or +358 40 332 8034 (service in Finnish and English, Mon – Fri 8 am to 10 pm, Sat 8 am to 7 pm, Sun 12 to 8 pm).
Companies can also submit electronic transit declarations in message format from their own data systems. For this, an authorisation to act as EDI sender for transits is required.