How do I calculate the import duties to export my products outside the European Union? How can I pay less of these duties thanks to the EU free trade agreements? What documents do I need? And what if I wanted to import products into Europe?
The Access2Markets portal gives you the right answers to all of these questions and many more. It is capable of helping importers and exporters in their trade relations outside the European borders.
A valuable tool for European companies
The new Access2Markets platform is the toolbox for EU companies exporting goods and services beyond Europe, or importing products from non-EU countries.
It provides information on tariffs & taxes, customs procedures, rules of origin, trade barriers, product requirements and statistics. It does so for each individual product. This information is available for 120 export markets outside of Europe and, simultaneously, it provides EU rules, taxes, duties and requirements to import goods from all non-EU countries.
Every product is listed with a harmonised code that enables you to know which customs duties and national taxes you need to pay for. If you do not know the harmonised code, you can find it by using the product name. Furthermore, the integrated “My trade assistant” tool helps SMEs with low experience in international trade. With the harmonised code of your product, the origin / destination countries, you can easily learn about the tariffs applied to your goods.
Discover what’s new and how to work with rules of origin
The Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission (DG Trade), who created the new Access2Markets portal, has developed another useful tool as well: ROSA. This rules of origin self-assessment instrument, helps determine the rules of origin for your product. This information is key to verify if your import duties can benefit from reduced tariffs thanks to a free trade agreement between the EU and the importing or exporting country. A large part of the platform is dedicated to EU Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and guides businesses on how to benefit from lower tariffs and other advantages that EU preferential trade agreements offer.
The Access2Markets portal replaces two other European trade platforms – the Market Access Database and the Trade Helpdesk – and addresses all the countries outside of Europe. This is a major step ahead as the Helpdesk only covered a limited number of countries. Finally, this new platform is available in all European languages.
ROSA: Rules of Origin Self-Assessment tool in Access2Markets
