European companies need to exchange customs and trade information, with partners, traders, providers, or other agents, and to comply with National and European regulations. But each national customs administration has different procedures, with different means, and different communication channels for declaration submission.
The EurTradeNet partners provide online electronic customs related services in their local markets. And ETN has built an interconnected network for developing trans-European services for customs and trade information exchange.
Our history
In 2002 a group of market-leading Customs-related Service Providers (CRSPs) joined to form the ETN Alliance. The initial goal was to establish means of communicatins their respective national networks to foster the information exchange between their correspondent customers.
The result was the ETN network, a trans-European network of local nodes called ETN gateways that connect with the National customers and customs administration on one side, and with the European networked nodes (the ETN backbone) on the other. The information flow is integrated by using a standard dataset specification for customs and trade data interchange that allows customers and other agents to enter the information flow.
The ETN network allow these actors to seamlessly interact among them and with customs administrations in different European countries about the trade operations they are involved with.
