Get an EORI number for Sweden

Swedish Customs (Tullverket) issues them free, through an online application form. Swedish businesses sign in with an electronic ID such as BankID.

Swedish Customs says most applications are processed within an hour, and the rest within a week.

SE followed by 10 digits. For a Swedish company, the digits are usually its organisation number. Numbers issued to companies from outside the EU begin SE444 or SE502, depending on whether the company is registered for Swedish VAT.

A company outside the EU applies in the EU country where its first customs activity takes place. If that's Sweden, it applies to Swedish Customs with its company registration certificate and documents showing the first activity is in Sweden, such as transport documents or invoices.

It can't apply in Sweden if it already has, or has applied for, an EORI number in another EU country.

Swedish Customs also points out that a company established outside the EU can't be the declarant on a customs declaration. Someone established in the EU, such as a customs agent, makes the declaration for it.

Start an application for Sweden. Before the form, we ask three quick questions: where your company is based, whether you already have an EU EORI number, and where your goods will first be cleared.

If Sweden fits, we prepare your application for Swedish Customs (Tullverket). If another EU country fits better, for example because your goods are first cleared in the Netherlands, we explain why before anything is filed, and nothing changes without your OK.

You pay only once the number is issued.