Send Cosmetics (Commercial) → 🇨🇭 Switzerland

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Posting cosmetics to Switzerland in personal quantities is permitted — registration and notification regimes govern marketing cosmetics, not personal parcels. Federal Customs Administration (Eidgenössische Zollverwaltung — EZV / Office fédéral de la douane et de la sécurité des frontières — BAZG) applies the ordinary parcel framework to an accurate CN22/CN23 declaration: import VAT/GST at 8.1% applies above the exemption threshold, plus duty on above-threshold consignments. Switzerland is not in the EU VAT area. Swiss VAT (MWST/TVA/IVA) is 8.1% standard rate. Low-value goods imported into Switzerland are subject to Swiss VAT when the total import value exceeds CHF 5 in tax liability — for standard-rated goods, this equates to approximately CHF 62 in value. Mail-order and e-commerce sellers with over CHF 100,000 in annual Switzerland revenue must register for Swiss VAT and collect it at point of sale. Switzerland's de minimis is higher in practice than many EU neighbors due to the CHF 5 minimum duty threshold. Aerosols and nail varnish are dangerous-goods limited quantities for air mail; bulk or repeated identical parcels are treated as unregistered commercial imports. Switzerland levies no import charges when the VAT due would be under CHF 5 (roughly CHF 60 of goods value at the standard rate); above that, VAT and any duty are collected with a carrier handling fee.

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