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Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products from Great Britain to the EU and Northern Ireland.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
Border Force warns festive shoppers against buying counterfeit goods this Christmas.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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