Expert transit declarations across Europe. Gaston Schul opens and discharges your T1 and T2 movements through NCTS, arranges the guarantee, and gives you one up-to-date view of every movement under customs control.
OUR SERVICES
Your transit declarations are opened and discharged the same way, through one customs clearance model. So your T1 and T2 movements meet one standard, wherever your goods travel under customs control.
Acting as your direct or indirect representative, we deal with customs for you, from the office of departure to the office of destination.
Your T1 and T2 transit documents are opened through NCTS, accurately and in a timely manner, so your goods travel under customs control without unnecessary stops.
Every open movement is tracked as an open order in NCTS, right through to discharge, so your guarantee is released once the movement closes and you are never left exposed by a movement that was not properly closed.
Your transit guarantee is arranged and held for you, so customs has the financial security it requires and your goods keep moving - without you posting your own guarantee for every movement.
Moving excise goods under duty suspension? The excise movement (e-AD) is opened and discharged alongside your transit, and we can act as your registered or certified consignor or consignee, so your alcohol, tobacco or energy products travel under suspension.
Before anything is filed, your data and documents are checked and corrected, so an error never stops your movement at the border.
For your high-value and sensitive consignments, transit is handled with extra care, and the guarantee is sized to cover the duty and VAT at stake in the movement.
If your movement is stopped or questioned in transit, your case is handled with customs directly and the right information given quickly, to keep any hold as short as possible.
The combination of speed, accuracy, and the digital portal has exceeded our expectations. We now have complete control and transparency over our customs processes, which is exactly what our China rail operations demanded.
Four steps, one process, from the data you share to discharge at destination.
THE BENEFITS
Your T1 and T2 movements, the NCTS filing and the guarantee are all handled by one partner across Europe. That gives you goods that keep moving, one clear view of every movement, one consistent standard, and the clarity, control and confidence to keep your supply chain moving.
Your movements clear and continue
Your declarations are checked and your guarantee is in place before anything is filed through NCTS, so movements open without delay and close cleanly at destination. Fewer stops, fewer queries, and any question handled for you.
See every open movement in one place
Every T1 and T2 sits in one record, with up-to-date NCTS status and documents in our digital portal. You can see what is still running, what has discharged, and prove every movement on demand.
One consistent standard
One customs clearance model across Europe, so your transit runs to one consistent standard. Audit-ready transit declarations wherever the movement runs, coordinated as a single operation.
OUR FULL-SERVICE APPROACH
Filing the movement is the start. For a business running transit across several countries, the value is in coordination, visibility and the authorisations that keep approved goods moving.
Run multi-country transit under one model, with central coordination and one point of accountability.
Track every open movement and connect your systems, for fewer errors and full visibility.
Use the authorisations and simplifications that keep your approved movements moving.
Every transit movement needs financial security, and we provide it, so your goods keep moving without you posting a guarantee each time.
RELATED SERVICES
Bringing goods into free circulation at the end of the movement? We file your import declarations, handle duty and import VAT, and manage customs questions, so your goods clear cleanly.
Sending goods abroad? We file your export declarations, issue origin documents like EUR.1 and A.TR, and handle export-control checks, so your shipments leave in a timely manner.
Discharging your transit into storage? We manage the customs side of your bonded or third-party warehouse, so duty and VAT stay suspended until goods move into free circulation.
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Gaston Schul does more than move your goods across borders. 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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Transit Declaration FAQs
A transit declaration lets goods move under customs control from one point to another without duties and taxes being paid along the way. It is filed electronically through NCTS as a T1 or T2 movement, and Gaston Schul opens it, manages the guarantee, and discharges it at destination for you.
A T1 document covers non-Union goods moving under external transit - a T1 transit - where duty and import VAT are still owed. A T2 document covers Union goods under internal transit, keeping their customs status as they cross non-EU territory. We file the right one for your movement and discharge it at destination.
You need a T1 document when non-Union goods move under customs control before the import duty and VAT are paid - for example, goods travelling from the port of arrival to an inland customs office, or onward to another country. Here is the part many miss: the holder of the procedure who signs the declaration is liable for the duty and VAT if the movement is not discharged, and an open T1 left unclosed becomes a customs debt with interest. So Gaston Schul opens the T1, arranges the guarantee, monitors every open movement, and discharges it at destination, so your liability is closed cleanly, not left open.
Not legally, but in practice almost everyone uses one. Opening a movement means access to NCTS, a transit guarantee, and the authorisations to act at the office of departure. A broker removes that overhead and the risk of a movement being held or never discharged. That is exactly what we do, across Europe.
Yes. Our own teams handle transit in the European markets where we operate, and our alliance network extends that reach further, all under one customs clearance model. So your movements run to one standard, not a different broker in every country: our One partner across Europe approach. Local customs requirements vary by country - tell us where your goods move and we will confirm the right local route.
Most brokers just file the movement and leave you to manage the rest. Gaston Schul runs the whole operation: transit declarations, guarantees, the onward import and export clearance, advisory and technology, under one full-service model. And we are truly independent: privately owned, with no parent company over us and no outside shareholders, so your data stays yours and we reinvest to make our services better and stronger. You are not managing a broker; one independent partner is managing customs for you, with 180+ years of doing exactly that.
NCTS, the New Computerised Transit System, is the system used across Europe to manage transit electronically. Yes. Gaston Schul files every T1 and T2 movement through NCTS and manages the open orders, so each one is tracked from the office of departure until it is discharged.
Yes. Every movement needs a transit guarantee as financial security for the duties and taxes at stake while goods are on the move. We arrange and manage the guarantee for you, so your movement is covered and not held up over security.
Yes. We act as your direct or indirect customs representative, dealing with the authorities on your behalf, in the markets where we handle your movements.
Usually your commercial and transport documents, the commodity codes, where the movement starts and ends, and a transit guarantee. Once it is open, NCTS issues an MRN that travels with the goods. We confirm exactly what your movement needs before anything is filed.
