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The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS) (German Bundesamt für Zoll und Grenzsicherheit (BAZG); French Office fédéral de la douane et de la sécurité des frontières (OFDF); Italian Ufficio Federale della dogana e della sicurezza dei confini (UDSC); Rhaeto-Romanic Uffizi federal de la duana e de la segirezza dals cunfins (UDSC)) is a federal agency of the Swiss Confederation.
SR 631.0 – Customs Act 2005 2007 Regulates Swiss customs (incl. movement of goods and people) 63 Finance -Customs Zollgesetz, ZG Loi sur les douanes, LD Legge sulle dogane, LD SR 632.10 – Customs Tariff Act, CTA 1986 1988 Regulates Customs Tariffs: 63 Finance -Customs Zolltarifgesetz, ZTG Loi sur le tarif des douanes, LTaD
After the founding of the Swiss federal state in 1848, the Federal Council and its handful of officials took up residence in the Erlacherhof in Bern. [4] The entire administrative staff consisted of 80 persons in 1849, while the postal service had 2,591 officials and the customs service 409. [4]
The Swiss Border Guard, [1] known as the Swiss Border Guard Command, [2] [a] was a federal law enforcement agency, which acted as both the border guard and customs service for Switzerland. It was a uniformed and armed section of the Federal Customs Administration, which is attached to the Federal Department of Finance. [6]
The Swiss Customs Employees' Union (German: Verbandes des Schweizerischen Zollpersonals, VSZP) was a trade union representing customs officials in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1906, as the Union of Swiss Customs Workers, and it affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation. It was the largest organisation of customs staff in the ...
The Confederation can levy customs duties and other duties on the cross-border movement of goods entering the Swiss Customs Area. The rates are almost exclusively based on weight (e.g. CHF X per 100 kg gross). The revenue from customs duties goes into the federal coffers and amounted to approximately CHF 1.13 billion in 2016. [42]
The department is headquartered in Bern and headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's finance minister. Initially, in 1848, the department was called "Department of Finance", then, from 1873 "Department of Finance and Customs", until it received its present designation in 1978.
French–Swiss customs post in EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, 2018 French–Swiss customs post in Moillesulaz. Since Switzerland's accession to the Schengen Area in 2008, there have been no permanent passport controls along the border, although there can be customs controls.