Customs warehousing procedure
Your goods can sit in the EU with duty and import VAT suspended. You pay when the goods leave for a customer, not when they land.
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Customs
Customs & compliance
What a customs warehouse actually does to your cash flow, and exactly what we file on your behalf.
What a customs warehouse is
A customs warehouse is a site authorised by the customs authority to store non-Union goods under customs supervision. The goods are physically inside the European Union, but in customs terms they have not been imported yet. Nothing becomes payable while they sit there.
The duty and import VAT are triggered only when goods are released into free circulation — in practice, when they leave our dock for a customer. Release can be partial: you can clear ten pallets and leave ninety in bond. If goods are shipped back out of the EU instead, EU duty is never paid on them at all.
Without a customs warehouse
- — Duty and import VAT paid the moment the container lands
- — Tax pre-funded on stock that has not sold yet
- — Re-exports mean reclaiming what you already paid
- — Cash tied up for the whole season
With Eurobond bonded storage
- Duty and import VAT suspended while goods are in bond
- Payment falls due order by order, as stock sells
- Re-export outside the EU without EU duty
- Cash stays in the business until revenue arrives
Procedures we operate
Bonded & customs warehousing
Hold stock in the EU with duty and import VAT suspended until it ships.
Customs representation & clearance
We file as your representative — direct or indirect — with declarations handled in-house.
Freight forwarding & EU distribution
Road distribution to all 27 EU markets on your carrier account or ours.
Direct representation
We file the declaration in your name and for your account. You remain the declarant and carry the customs liability. This route requires that you are established in the European Union.
Indirect representation
We file in our own name but for your account, and we become jointly liable with you for the customs debt. This is the route most non-EU sellers use, because it does not require an EU entity of your own.
What we need from you
Warehouse operators outsource customs. Brokers have no warehouse. We do both, which is the whole point of the company.
What we need from you
- Power of Attorney authorising us to represent you
- EORI number, or a request for us to help you obtain one
- Commodity codes for every SKU (we can support classification)
- Commercial invoice for each consignment
- Packing list matching the physical shipment
- Origin documents where you intend to claim preference
Our current status
Eurobond Logistics was incorporated in 2026. We publish our licence and certification status openly — ask us for documentation at any point.
Direct & indirect representation
We can file in your name, or in our own name on your behalf if you have no EU establishment. Non-EU sellers do not need their own entity.
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Import & export declarations
Declarations are prepared and filed by our own team. One place to ask where a shipment is in the process.
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EUR.1 & certificates of origin
Where a trade agreement gives your goods a preferential rate, we prepare the paperwork that lets you actually claim it.
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Intrastat reporting
Statistical reporting on intra-EU movements is filed on time, so a reporting threshold never becomes a penalty.
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IOSS & import VAT handling
Low-value consignment flows and import VAT are handled correctly for distance selling into the EU.
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EORI registered
We hold an EORI registration, and we help you obtain yours where you need one of your own.
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AEO — application in progress
Authorised Economic Operator status is being applied for. We will publish the certificate the day it is granted, and not before.
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Prefer to talk first? Write to hello@eurobondlogistics.eu