Holders travelling with jewelry samples and /or precious stones may be required to transit to offices where French customs inspectors specially trained to evaluate jewelry and/or loose stones are located. These inspectors are rarely available at airports and their offices are closed on weekends; therefore, plan accordingly. Also ensure that your carnet includes sufficient blue transit sheets.
We recommend that one set of transit certificates be issued for each trip to France.
Evaluation offices are closed on the weekends
Translation may be required if a carnet is completed in any other language than French.
The French Customs territory includes the following:
Mainland France including the free zones of Gex and Haute Savoie
Corsica
The Principality of Monaco. (Even if an independent and sovereign city State, it constitutes one single fiscal entity with France as far as VAT is concerned.)
Overseas Departments and Regions (DOM/TOM): French Guiana, Guadeloupe; Martinique and Reunion
Overseas Countries: New Caledonia, French Polynesia
Overseas Communities (COM): Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Island of Saint Martin, Mayotte, Island of Saint Barthelemy, Wallis and Futuna
Public State Domain: Juan de Nova, Clipperton Island, Bassas da India, Malagasy Islands of Glorieuses, Europa, Tromelin Island
Overseas Territories (TOM): New Amsterdam Island, Saint Paul Island, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Adelie Land.