SAP's Foreign Trade/Customs (FT) Periodic Declarations component simplifies the creation of declarations required by customs offices and other government authorities. Such declarations are used to maintain statistics on goods that are exported or imported into economic zones and trade areas.

You can transfer the data required in declarations using printed documents, diskettes, EDI procedures and/or by email.

With this component, you can create customs declarations required by the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Japan.

To create customs declarations, this component copies data from SAP's Materials Management (MM) and Sales and Distribution (SD) documents. When you create import declarations, this component copies data from MM's purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoice receipts. When you create export declarations, it copies data from SD's billing documents.