Customs invites thousands of companies to prepare for Brexit

in less than two months, on 29 march, the Uk will leave the EU – if not exit for any reason, is postponed.

There is a utträdesavtal, but the british parliament has voted no to it, and without an agreement there will be no transitional period until the end of the year 2020/21.

the Uk is in such a case, immediately a so-called third country. Then the start, of a night, " customs regulations for the Swedish trade with countries outside the EU to also apply to the Uk.

(SCB) shall, therefore, send a letter to the 5,000 companies whose trade with the united kingdom exceeds the thresholds for reporting to statistics SWEDEN via the so-called Intrastat survey.

Threshold is sek 4.5 million for exports and 9 million for importation.

Among the recipients are both companies that deal exclusively with countries in the EUROPEAN union and the companies also have trade with countries outside the EU. Both groups are involved, but the transition will be, think letter-writers, especially the big for entrepreneurs in the first group, then the lack of experience of customs procedures.

the companies, inter alia, to urgently apply for a so-called EORI number. There is a registration number, which all companies need if they are to engage in trade with countries outside the EU. Application is made through Customs ' website.

the Companies should also apply for access to the Customs ' web services, where much of the customs operations may be performed.

If there is a Brexit a utträdesavtal, companies must continue to report its trade with the united kingdom to the SCB via the Intrastat during the transitional period.