Export, import and customs

Import duties usually have to be paid on goods brought into the Netherlands from outside the European Union (EU).

Companies sometimes smuggle goods into the EU to avoid paying import duties. Such goods include cigarettes (both genuine and counterfeit) and expensive watches. Illegal products can be dangerous to health and infringe trademark law. Customs therefore carries out strict checks on such goods.

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Customs find €158,000 in luggage

On Saturday 27 August Customs officers at Schiphol Airport found a large quantity of euro banknotes in the luggage of a Chinese ...

08-09-2011 | FIN

Man arrested in Moldavia for fraud with alcoholic beverages

Friday, 5 August, a 41-year-old Dutchman was arrested in Moldavia for forgery and tax fraud in an investigation of the Dutch ...

23-08-2011 | FIN

Royal Netherlands Military Constabulary and Customs intercept 42 kilos of cocaine

Friday evening, detectives of the Schiphol Team, a cooperation of the Royal Netherlands Military Constabulary and Customs, ...

31-07-2011 | FIN

Customs find 8 kilos of cocaine floating on the river Scheldt

The crew of a Customs boat chanced upon a shipment of cocaine last Tuesday. The 8 kilos of hard drugs floated in the mouth of the ...

22-07-2011 | FIN

Supervisory bodies and companies decrease red tape for import

In the presence of State Secretary Frans Weekers of Finance, the representatives of trade and industry, Customs and the new Food ...

14-07-2011 | FIN

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