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Providing information for statistics on German foreign trade

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Schleswig-Holstein (Linie6Plus)

Service Description

As a company, you must report your trade in goods between Germany and other EU member states to the Federal Statistical Office under certain conditions.

Foreign trade statistics record the movement of goods imported and exported across the borders of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Foreign trade statistics primarily record the quantities and values of imported and exported goods by type of goods and country. However, other data is also collected that is of fundamental interest in connection with the physical movement of goods.
You can use the GENESIS-Online information database to call up monthly and annual foreign trade results according to various goods classifications in different data formats (xlsx, xls, csv, html).

The most important survey characteristics for publication include

  • Commodity code,
  • value,
  • quantity,
  • country of origin,
  • Country of dispatch on import,
  • country of destination on export,
  • Type of transaction,
  • Federal state,
  • mode of transport.

A distinction is made in foreign trade statistics between

  • Intra-trade statistics (Intrastat), the recording of trade in goods with countries within the European Union (EU), and
  • and extra-trade statistics (Extrastat), the recording of trade in goods with countries outside the EU (trade in goods with third countries).

The Federal Statistical Office collects data on the cross-border movement of goods either

  • through your declaration as a company obliged to provide information (intra-trade)
  • or via the customs administration (extra-trade).

Companies subject to VAT that are involved in the intra-Community movement of goods are obliged to report for the intra-Community trade statistics. However, to ease the burden on companies, a declaration threshold is set on the basis of EU regulations or national law on the degree of coverage. Only if your company exceeds the registration threshold is it required to report for intra-Community trade statistics for the year in question and the following year.


Process flow

There are 2 reporting procedures available to you for transmitting the data on intra-trade statistics to the Federal Statistical Office on a monthly basis:

  • Either you transmit the data to the Federal Statistical Office using the online reporting procedure IDEV (Internet data collection in the network).
  • Or you can send the data as a data package (XML format) to the common data entry point for official statistics ("CORE"). You must register once for this.

The Federal Statistical Office collects data on extra trade from customs declarations. As a rule, you do not have to send a report to the Federal Statistical Office:

  • The data recorded in the IT procedure ATLAS (Automated Tariff and Local Customs Clearance System) or by customs form is automatically forwarded to the Federal Statistical Office by the German customs administration.

In exceptional cases, you can send direct declarations to the Federal Statistical Office via IDEV, for example in the case of cancellations or corrections. However, a direct report via IDEV always requires the prior consent of the Federal Statistical Office.

Requirements

In the direct company survey in the Intrastat system, companies are exempt from the reporting obligation if their intra-Community goods traffic in the previous year or in the current year

  • the value of goods received currently exceeds EUR 800,000
  • the dispatch value of which currently does not exceed EUR 500,000

are not exceeded. If your company exceeds the value limit with the cumulative values for the current year, you must submit statistical declarations from this month onwards.

Which documents are required?
  • none
What are the fees?

There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Application deadline: 10 Days
Processing duration
Processing time: 0 - 2 Hours
Für die Abgabe der Meldungen können verschiedene Online-Meldeverfahren genutzt werden. Zudem variiert die Anzahl abzugebender Meldungen zwischen den Unternehmen sehr stark. Je nach Anzahl der abzugebenden Meldungen und dem genutzten Verfahren benötigen Sie durchschnittlich 15 bis 100 Minuten zur Abgabe der Meldungen.

Das Statistische Bundesamt bestätigt Ihnen unverzüglich die Übermittlung Ihrer Daten.
Legal basis
Appeal
  • Objection
  • Detailed information on how to lodge an objection can be found in the notice of appeal from the Federal Statistical Office.
  • Administrative appeal
Author

Teaser

As a company, you must report your trade in goods between Germany and other EU member states to the Federal Statistical Office under certain conditions.

Process flow

There are 2 reporting procedures available to you for transmitting the data on intra-trade statistics to the Federal Statistical Office on a monthly basis:

  • Either you transmit the data to the Federal Statistical Office using the online reporting procedure IDEV (Internet data collection in the network).
  • Or you can send the data as a data package (XML format) to the common data entry point for official statistics ("CORE"). You must register once for this.

The Federal Statistical Office collects data on extra trade from customs declarations. As a rule, you do not have to send a report to the Federal Statistical Office:

  • The data recorded in the IT procedure ATLAS (Automated Tariff and Local Customs Clearance System) or by customs form is automatically forwarded to the Federal Statistical Office by the German customs administration.

In exceptional cases, you can send direct declarations to the Federal Statistical Office via IDEV, for example in the case of cancellations or corrections. However, a direct report via IDEV always requires the prior consent of the Federal Statistical Office.

Requirements

In the direct company survey in the Intrastat system, companies are exempt from the reporting obligation if their intra-Community goods traffic in the previous year or in the current year

  • the value of goods received currently exceeds EUR 800,000
  • the dispatch value of which currently does not exceed EUR 500,000

are not exceeded. If your company exceeds the value limit with the cumulative values for the current year, you must submit statistical declarations from this month onwards.

Which documents are required?

  • none

What are the fees?

There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

Application deadline: 10 Days

Processing duration

Processing time: 0 - 2 Hours
Für die Abgabe der Meldungen können verschiedene Online-Meldeverfahren genutzt werden. Zudem variiert die Anzahl abzugebender Meldungen zwischen den Unternehmen sehr stark. Je nach Anzahl der abzugebenden Meldungen und dem genutzten Verfahren benötigen Sie durchschnittlich 15 bis 100 Minuten zur Abgabe der Meldungen.

Das Statistische Bundesamt bestätigt Ihnen unverzüglich die Übermittlung Ihrer Daten.

Legal basis

Appeal

  • Objection
  • Detailed information on how to lodge an objection can be found in the notice of appeal from the Federal Statistical Office.
  • Administrative appeal

Author

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