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EAD - Export From Germany

An EAD (Export Accompanying Document) is required by German Customs for orders with a customs declarative value above 1,000 EURO shipped from Germany to a country outside the European Union.

Global-e can provide this document to Merchants who are doing the shipping themselves.

This functionality is not yet supported for Merchants who are using Global-e for shipping.

Procedure for receiving an EAD

  1. When an order is created, Global-e sends an indication that an EAD is required in the SendOrderToMerchant (Global-e to Merchant) notification. ( see AdditionalRequiredDocuments section) Do not start fulfilment until the document is ready.

  2. Global-e notifies you when the EAD is ready by sending SendAdditionalRequiredDocumentsToMerchant (Global-e to Merchant) endpoint and including the document itself (base64 encoded) in the notification. Upon receiving this notification, you can do the fulfilment with this document included in the order shipping documents.