Intra-Community Trade Declaration System / Help with online declaration

The code to be indicated is the Land where the local tax office is seated that is in charge of the VAT assessment.

See Current version of the Country Nomenclature (only in the German language) for the External Trade Statistics.

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A server is a network's central computer that provides other stations with access to data and resources.

If the server crashes during your data entry, the IDEV declaration system will provide a server data backup about three hours later.

Services are not subject to declaration. The purpose of compiling intra-Community trade statistics is to collect information on the actual trade in goods between Germany and the other Member States of the European Union (dispatches and arrivals). For clarification purposes, we ask you to note that the changes to VAT law regarding the recording of other intra-Community services in the Zusammenfassende Meldung (summary declaration) and the Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung (advance turnover tax return) in Germany since 2010 do not have any effect on the data declaration for the purposes of intra-Community trade statistics.

The list of valid commodity codes (Sova steering file) is a register of all statistical commodity codes that are relevant in the year of its release. It includes a detailed description of the commodities in .txt format (text with a fixed width) and is particularly suited for use in what are called computer-assisted merchandise information systems. The list of valid commodity codes (Sova steering file) can be downloaded here (only in the German language).

See Intra-Community trade statistics General Guide Chapter 9 "Examples and special cases".

For a simplified declaration of specific movements of goods, use the relevant Declaration form (only in the German language) only for statistical purposes (deliveries of ships' and aircraft's stores, exports of bulk goods and other transactions exclusively of statistical relevance). Do not use this form if, for the movement of goods concerned, you have already submitted a declaration for the purposes of intra-Community trade statistics.

The statistical value is defined as the value of the goods free German border (excl. VAT). Depending on the delivery terms, transport costs may hence only be considered in part (for example based on a distance (kilometer) key).

See also Intra-Community trade statistics General Guide Chapter 5.1 and Chapter 5.2 "Box 19".

IDEV enables the subsequent declaration of data for the past three calendar years. Subsequently declared data have to be transmitted separately for each reference month.

These codes are assigned to ranges of different goods. Please contact the Federal Statistical Office at warenverzeichnis(at)destatis.de to request such a code.

Reporting data with identical characteristics can be summarized within a reporting month and enter in one reporting position.

Enter for each item the numerical value of the supplementary unit indicated in the Commodity Classification for Foreign Trade Statistics. Leave the box empty, if a supplementary unit is not specified. Do not name the supplementary unit as such (e.g. enter "2" as a numerical value for "2 pieces").The figures should be rounded up or down to full numbers. If a figure is rounded down to "0", "0" must be entered.

Example:

- Crane lorry (mobile crane)

............................... 8705 10 00 pcs.

The supplementary unit in the above example is pieces. If, for instance, two crane lorries were dispatched, "2" must be entered.

Here is an overview of the abbreviations used for the supplementary unit:

1000 kWh = 1000 Kilowatt hours

1000 m3 = 1000 Cubic meters

1000 St = 1000 peaces

100 St = 100 peaces

AnzZel = Number of cells

g = Grams

g spaltb.Isot. = Grams fissile isotopes

Karat = Carat

kg = Kilograms

kg H2O2 = Kilograms Hydrogen peroxide

kg K2O = Kilograms Potassium monoxide

kg KOH = Kilograms Potassium hydroxide

kg met.am. = Kilograms Methylamines

kg N = Kilograms Nitrogen (Chem.)

kg NaOH = Kilograms Sodium hydroxide

kg P2O5 = Kilograms Diphosphorus pentaoxide

kg tr 90 % = Kilograms calculated on 90% dry

kg U = Kilograms Uranium

kg/net eda = Kilograms drained weight

l = Liters

Lade - t = Loading tons

lAlk. 100% = Liters of pure alcohol

m = Meters

m2 = Square meters

m3 = Cubic meters

Paar = Pairs

St = Peaces

TJ = Terajoules (upper calorific value)

See Intra-Community trade statistics General Guide Chapter 9 "Examples and special cases - g)".

See IDEV system requirements