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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 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.
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
A more critical commentator at Swiss economic magazine Handelszeitung stated in November 2018 that, despite the fact that 15% of Swiss non-agricultural exports go to the United States, the customs hurdles to reaching the US market are considerable: "Swiss [non-agricultural] companies had to hand over 300 million francs in customs duties to the ...
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.
The federal administration of Switzerland [1] is the ensemble of agencies that constitute, together with the Swiss Federal Council, the executive branch of the Swiss federal authorities. The administration is charged with executing federal law and preparing draft laws and policy for the Federal Council and the Federal Assembly .
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Garanto is a trade union representing customs officials and border guards in Switzerland. The union was founded in 2001, when the Swiss Customs Employees' Union merged with the Union of Swiss Customs Officials. It affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation. [1] By 2017, it had 3,316 members. [2]