Accurate export declarations and complete export customs clearance, across Europe. Gaston Schul issues the origin and export documents your goods need, clears export controls, and gives you one up-to-date view of every consignment on its way out.
OUR SERVICES
Your export declarations follow one method and one standard, through one operating model. So your export customs clearance works the same way, across Europe.
Acting as your direct or indirect representative, we speak to customs on your behalf, so the authorities are dealt with for you and your export is handled by people who know the rules.
Before a declaration goes anywhere, your commodity codes, values and documents are checked for completeness and consistency, and any errors flagged and corrected before filing, so a small slip never turns into a shipment held at the port.
Need to prove where your goods are made? Your certificate of origin, EUR.1, EUR-MED, A.TR and T2L are prepared and legalised where required, so your buyer gets the proof the destination market or trade agreement calls for.
Once your export is accepted, we provide the Export Accompanying Document (EAD) and its Movement Reference Number (MRN), so your goods have what they need to be presented and leave the EU.
Where your goods are dual-use or controlled, the export control screening, licence applications and sanctions checks are done first, so nothing leaves that should not.
Sending goods abroad for repair or processing? Your outward-processing and returned-goods declarations are taken care of, so duty is only ever charged on the value added overseas.
Dispatching alcohol, tobacco or energy products? The excise movement is opened under duty suspension and discharged on arrival, and we can act as your registered or certified consignor where you need it.
Trading between the EU and the UK, Norway or Switzerland? Your export and the matching import are cleared by the same partner, so both sides of the crossing are handled together.
We would absolutely recommend Gaston Schul without any restrictions - they are true specialists for customs purposes.
One method across Europe, from the moment you hand over the data to the moment your goods are cleared to leave.
THE BENEFITS
One partner files your export declarations, issues your origin documents and clears your export controls, across Europe. The result: fewer holds, the right duty rates for your buyers, and one clear view of everything leaving, with the clarity, control and confidence that brings.
Less time held at the border
Because every declaration and document is checked before it is filed, mistakes get fixed up front rather than at the border. That means fewer goods held at the border, and any export control question handled for you.
Help your goods stay competitive
A correct certificate of origin or EUR.1 lets your buyer claim the preferential duty rate the trade agreement allows, so your goods cost them less to import and stay competitive. Any outward-processing relief you qualify for is applied too.
Every export in one place
Every export you make sits in one record, across Europe. Track status and pull documents from our digital portal, with consistent, audit-ready declarations and proof of export behind each one.
OUR FULL-SERVICE APPROACH
Filing the declaration is just the start. Our full-service approach adds advisers who help your goods qualify for lower duty and stay compliant, and technology that keeps every consignment visible and under control.
Prove where your goods come from and unlock the preferential duty rates your trade agreements offer.
Check your goods and your trading partners up front, and keep every export inside the rules.
Get the right commodity (HS) code confirmed, because it sets your duty rate, your controls and your licence and origin requirements.
See where every export is, and connect us to your systems, for fewer errors and a clear picture throughout.
RELATED SERVICES
Bringing goods into Europe? We file your import declarations, work out duty and import VAT, and manage any customs questions or inspections, so your goods clear into free circulation.
Hold your goods under duty and VAT suspension. We manage the customs side of your bonded or third-party warehouse, so you only pay when goods move into free circulation.
We open and discharge T1 and T2 movements through NCTS and arrange the guarantee, so your goods keep moving under customs control across borders.
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Gaston Schul does more than clear your exports. We connect it all and run it as one. That is what one full-service operating model gives you, across all your customs and trade in Europe: the clarity to see, the control to govern, and the confidence to decide.
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Export Declaration FAQs
An export declaration is the official record you lodge with customs when goods leave a country, setting out what they are, what they are worth and where they are going, so they can be cleared to leave and any controls applied. It sits at the centre of export customs clearance, and we prepare and file it for you, across Europe.
There is no legal requirement, but very few exporters handle it themselves. Filing yourself means access to each country's export system, the right authorisations, and staying current on export controls and origin rules that shift constantly. A broker removes that overhead, and the risk of delays and penalties, when exporting goods. That is precisely what we do, across Europe.
There is no single price. What you pay tracks how complex your declarations are, how often you ship, how many products and commodity codes are involved, and whether you need origin documents or export licences. Tell us what you export and where it goes, and we will quote against your actual flows rather than a generic rate.
Yes. Our own teams handle export clearance in the European markets where we operate, and our alliance network extends that reach further, all on one operating model. You deal with one partner rather than a different broker in every country: our One partner across Europe approach (links to /en/solutions/one-partner). Local rules vary by country - tell us where you ship and we will confirm the right local route.
Yes. When you ship between the EU and the UK, Norway or Switzerland, the export on one side and the import on the other both need clearing. We handle both sides, so the two declarations are consistent and your goods are not held while one side waits for the other.
Plenty of brokers file the declaration and leave the rest to you. We take on the whole operation instead: declarations, origin documents, export controls, advisory and technology, under a single full-service model. And we are genuinely independent: privately owned, with no parent company over us and no outside shareholders, so your data stays yours and what we earn goes back into the service. You are not left managing a broker; one independent partner runs customs for you, and has done for 180+ years.
Yes, and the right document depends on where your goods are going, which is where it gets confusing. A EUR.1 or EUR-MED proves preferential origin under a trade agreement, so your buyer pays a lower or zero duty rate. An A.TR is different: it does not prove origin at all, it proves free-circulation status for the EU-Türkiye customs union. A certificate of origin proves non-preferential origin, where no preference applies. We work out which one your shipment needs, confirm your goods qualify, and prepare and legalise it.
In our experience, the export that gets stopped at the last minute is the one carrying a control nobody checked for: a dual-use component, or a party on a sanctions list. So we assess your goods for dual-use or military classification, run your trading partners against sanctions and denied-party lists, and obtain and manage any licence you need. Controlled goods never leave without clearance, and compliant goods are not held up by export control questions.
Yes. We act as your direct or indirect customs representative, dealing with the authorities on your behalf in the markets where we clear your goods.
In most cases an EORI number plus your commercial paperwork: the invoice, packing list, transport document, commodity (HS) code and the destination. Dual-use or controlled goods may also need an export licence, and shipments claiming preference need origin documents such as a certificate of origin or EUR.1. The EU and UK work on an EORI number, while Norway and Switzerland use their own identifiers. We confirm the exact list for your shipment before anything moves.
