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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.
The Swiss Customs Museum, or Museo doganale svizzero, is a museum located in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The museum is sited near Cantine di Gandria, directly across the Lake Lugano from the village of Gandria, and adjacent to the border with Italy. The museum was formerly a border post on that border, but now forms part of the Swiss National ...
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
The Swiss Border Guard, [1] known as the Swiss Border Guard Command [2] (French: Corps des gardes-frontière, [3] German: Grenzwachtkorps, [4] Italian: Corpo delle guardie di confine, [5] Romansh: Corp da guardias da cunfin) was a federal law enforcement agency, which acted as both the border guard and customs service for Switzerland.
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 .
The Liechtenstein delegation for custom union negotiations with Switzerland, 1920. After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the Liechtenstein government could no longer rely on Austria to fulfil their monetary and diplomatic needs, and Liechtenstein terminated the customs union that had existed between them since 1852. [4]
A customs union is generally defined as a type of trade bloc which is composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff. [ 1 ] Customs unions are established through trade pacts where the participant countries set up common external trade policy (in some cases they use different import quotas ).
In 2010, Swiss customs officers discovered a Roman sarcophagus in the Geneva Freeport that had been looted from a site in Southern Turkey. [2] In 2013, nine antiquities looted from Palmyra in Syria and ancient sites in Libya and Yemen were seized by Swiss authorities when they were found during a customs inspection at the Freeport.