Overview

• Officers at the Grenztunnel Füssen on the A7 stopped a van on July 16 and uncovered 27 sacks of coffee beans and 101 cartons of coffee pads weighing more than one metric ton.
• Both occupants, Italian nationals bound for the Netherlands, could only produce a handwritten delivery note for 936 kilograms of roasted coffee.
• Customs have opened a tax evasion investigation and assessed approximately €2,300 in unpaid coffee levies against the driver.
• EU regulations require prior declaration and valid paperwork for goods in transit, a mandate that this shipment violated.
• In 2024 the Hauptzollamt Augsburg collected over €6 million in coffee taxes as part of more than €3.6 billion in overall consumption duties.