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How to export to the European Union



Procedures for importing from the European Union / export to the EU

  1. Import procedures of the EU
  2. New Union Customs Code
  3. The EU Help System: Export Helpdesk
  4. Economic operator registration and identification number (EORI)
  5. Entry summary declaration
  6. Customs destination
  7. Customs warehouses
  8. Single Administrative Document (DUA)
  9. Customs value
  10. Sanitary and phytosanitary requirements
  11. Environmental requirements
  12. Technical requirements. CE Marking of European Conformity
  13. Case Study. Requirements for exporting coffee, cotton t-shirts and rum to the EU
  14. Excise duties on imports into the EU
  15. Marketing standards
  16. Tariffs in the EU. EU Binding Tariff Information System (BTI)
  17. Import restrictions. Contingents and Quotas
  18. Anti-dumping
  19. Value Added Tax in the EU
  20. TARIC database (tariffs and rules on import products into the EU)

How to export to the EU:
How to export to the European Union


The objectives of the subject “How to export to the EU” are the following:

  1. To learn the necessary procedures to export a good to the EU or import from the EU
  2. To know the requirements and standards needed to import
  3. To understand how to identify the import restrictions and quotas
  4. To analyze the applicable tariffs

Online Student Master in International Business

The Subject “How to export to the European Union” belongs to the following Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Doctorate: World Trade.

Doctorate in International Business (DIB) Online

Masters: International Business, Foreign Trade.

Masters in International Business and Foreign Trade (MIB)

Export to the European Union

Languages: Masters, Doctorate, International Business, English or Study Master Doctorate in International Business in Spanish Exportar a la UE Study Doctorate in International Business in French Exporter vers l’UE Masters Foreign Trade in Portuguese Exportar para a UE.


The New EU Customs Code contains all the rules, requirements and procedures for importing goods into the EU or exporting to the EU from the third countries.

All the EU countries apply this customs code: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden.

Both companies and individuals must have the economic operators' registration and identification number (EORI). An exporter who is not a member of the EU must apply.

When a product from a third country enters into the customs territory of the EU, the entry summary declaration must be lodged.

When a good entry into the EU Customs territory they do so in the form of a temporary deposit (maximum of 90 days) until is assigned to a customs destination:

  1. Release for free circulation
  2. Special Procedures
    1. Transit (internal or external)
    2. Deposit
    3. Special destination (Temporary admission, Final destination, Inward processing / passive traffic)

Union Customs Code

Trans-European Transport Corridors.

Trans-European Transport Corridors



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