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Find out which locations you need to submit an ‘arrived’ export declaration at before moving goods and where to take the goods if they need to be checked.
Additional steps you or someone acting on your behalf may need to take to tell HMRC that your goods have arrived in the UK at a location using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.
Use this service if you're an authorised loader arriving or departing goods from the UK.
If you're moving goods outside the UK, you'll need to make an exit summary declaration if you've not fulfilled safety and security requirements with a full customs export declaration.
Use this service to tell HMRC about exports that were not notified through the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), when they arrived or left the UK port.
Use these examples to help you complete declarations on the Customs Declarations Service for exports.
How to use the simplified declaration procedure when importing goods into the UK.
Find out the different ways that customs approved border locations can be operated in the UK. A border location can be either a wharf, airport or rail terminal.
What to do when you arrive in the UK if you have a visa, don't have a visa or have a biometric residence permit.
Find out what to do when you transport goods out of the UK under a transit movement to common transit countries.
Find out what happens when a pre-lodged import declaration is rejected and what you need to do to get your goods released.
Moving your belongings, going through customs and tax
Find out when and how to submit an arrival notification if you're bringing goods to the UK.
If you’re the ship's master (or their agent) of a commercial vessel, you will need to report any goods that are arriving on your vessel at a UK port.
You may need a visa to come to the UK to visit, study or work.
Use form C27 to declare the arrival of certain classes of goods to HMRC.
Find out about safety and security requirements that apply to goods entering and exiting the UK.
British and Irish citizens and people with valid immigration status escaping the violence in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Lebanon can claim benefits from the day they arrive in the UK.
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