Bill of discharge for inward processing

Upon completion of the procedure for inward processing you are required to submit a bill of discharge, wherein you account for all goods registered for the procedure.

You are required to submit one bill of discharge per import declaration. Once the bill of discharge has been received by Swedish Customs, the state of inward processing ceases and any guarantee will be released.

When should I submit the bill of discharge?

Submit the bill of discharge within 30 days of the end of the time period for completion. The time period for completion (Date of completion) is marked on your case summary, which may be printed from Swedish Customs services for businesses.

Example
The time period for completion is 6 months. The bill of discharge for an import shipment with a taxation date on 1 May must be submitted to Swedish Customs by 1 December.

Please note that Swedish Customs will not send a reminder for the bill of discharge.

If you fail to submit the bill of discharge in time, the fees will be charged at the end of the 30 day time period. In conjunction with this, Swedish Customs will issue a customs bill containing a justification for the fee.

What should the bill of discharge contain?

The following should be always be included in the bill of discharge:

• Holder of the authorisation and corporate Identification Number (CIN);
• Authorisation number;
• The customs ID for your import declaration is also your authorisation number, when applying for authorisation directly in your import declaration;
• Customs ID of the import declaration;
• Quantity of imported goods;
• Commodity code (CN codes), rate of customs duty and customs amount;
• Customs ID of the export declarations;
• Type and quantity of the processed product;
• Rate of revenue.

Bill of discharge for active processing Pdf, 107.7 kB.

Bill of discharge, example of completed bill of discharge Pdf, 118.1 kB.

Presentation of bill of discharge Pdf, 118.9 kB.

Presentation of bill of discharge, example of completed list