Customs Clearance Bern Federal Capital

About Bern

Bern is Switzerland's federal capital and the seat of the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (BAZG), the authority that sets the rules and IT systems every Swiss customs office follows. The city itself is not a major freight terminal, but its A1/A6 motorway junction places it on direct routes to Zurich, Basel and Geneva, roughly 1,350 km and two to three driving days from Belgrade once Austrian and Balkan border queues are factored into the schedule.

Because Switzerland sits outside the EU customs union, every shipment reaching Bern or continuing past it needs a transit document discharged correctly at a Swiss office of destination - a TIR carnet or a T1/T2 depending on the routing - plus the e-dec export or import filing that BAZG's own systems process. Fin Partner tracks these filings against the BAZG rulebook rather than an EU customs code, so a Bern-bound shipment clears under the right regime the first time, without a second document being raised once the truck is already on Swiss soil.