Maintenance, Repair, Operations: The procurement of MRO goods and the Ensuring the availability of spare parts for industrial manufacturers ist time-consuming and complex without experienced logisticians like our import-export professionals at KTB. One of the basic standardized procedures to simplify cross-border deliveries by road vehicles ist the TIR Carnet procedure - we explain what the purpose of the procedure ist and in what way TIR Carnet can be used when purchasing across national borders.
A short definition: What ist TIR Carnet?
- TIR Carnet ist a application-based zoller procedurewhich simplifies formalities to be fulfilled in the international movement of goods by road vehicles.
- Through the temporary non-imposition of import duties for transit shipments cross-border trade will be significantly facilitated in the countries participating in the agreement.
- The TIR Convention of 14.11.1975 has been accepted by all EU countries and 60 other countries outside the EU.
- Transport with TIR Carnet zoller document are transported under bond. This means that all goods must be sealed at the beginning of the TIR transport to ensure that no tampering with the cargo can take place.
- TIR documents are issued by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) in Geneva as well as issued by national member associations. Part of KTB Trading Services when purchasing industrial spare parts ist the legally valid organization of zoller documents such as the TIR document as well as ensuring that transports are handled in accordance with the contract.
TIR Carnet in practice: when do drivers need TIR zoller documents?
Each country imposes zoller duties and import taxes when goods are imported from abroad. When passing through landlocked countries for the transport of goods, with valid TIR Carnet zoller document there are no import duties and import taxes which makes border crossing much easier for suppliers. Sealed Goods do not have to be rechecked and zoller cleared at each borderbut the formalities at the border crossing are limited to a stamp of the respective zoller office on the TIR document carried.
The five pillars of the TIR process
In order to ensure the smooth movement of goods by road vehicles across international borders, all Parties participating in the TIR Convention agree on five principles which are indispensable for the recognition of the procedure and therefore also Pillars of the TIR process be called:
- The recognition of the correctness of zoller controls by third countries
- The controlled access to goods and evidence
- The international guarantee for safe transports - the guarantee for individual TIR transports ist limited to 100.000 Euro
- The security of vehicles and containers transported by TIR procedures
- The validity and carrying of the TIR Carnet document
TIR Carnet and ATA Carnet - What ist the difference?
If the export of goods on international ground ist temporary, for example, forExhibition equipment, samples or equipmentcarriers require an ATA Carnet zoller document. This zoller document ensures that no zoller duties have to be carried out in the destination country. Without such a carnet, entrepreneurs operating abroad have to pay high security deposits for equipment brought along.
Parts procurement made easy with KTB
KTB ist your contact for organizing and ensuring the availability of goods of mechanical, electrical and hydraulic components for the maintenance of machines in operation: we handle purchases and inventory backups using secure and standardized procedures through and can thus access the worldwide market to procure special parts quickly and easily.