Trade and investment
Services
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Trade Tariff: look up commodity codes, duty and VAT rates
Search for import and export commodity codes and for tax, duty and licences that apply to your goods
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Bringing goods into the UK for personal use
Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.
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Get an EORI number
Apply to get an EORI number to move goods between Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man, and other countries.
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Import goods into the UK: step by step
How to bring goods into the UK from any country, including how much tax and duty you’ll need to pay and whether you need to get a licence or certificate.
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Tax and customs for goods sent from abroad
VAT, duty and customs declarations for goods received by post or courier - paying, collecting your goods, getting a refund and documents.
Guidance and regulation
- Get a goods movement reference
- Subscribe to the Customs Declaration Service
- HMRC exchange rates for 2022: monthly
- Get your postponed import VAT statement
- Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK
News and communications
- Trade remedy measure on hot rolled flat and coil steel suspended for imports from Ukraine
- Government approves TRA recommendation on cold rolled flat steel
- One month left for importers to move to single customs platform
- UK International Trade Secretary visits New Zealand and Australia
- Philippines eligible for duty free access to exported goods to UK through DCTS
Research and statistics
- Valuing the impact of the World Trade Organization
- Exporting behaviour of medium-sized businesses
- Descriptive analysis of DIT supported large businesses
- Using export promotion to address barriers of exporting businesses
- Evaluating export promotion activities using econometrics
Policy papers and consultations
- Subsidies and Schemes of Interest and of Particular Interest
- Designing the UK trade preferences scheme for developing nations
- Interministerial Group for Trade: terms of reference
- Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS): new policy report
- Trade advisory groups (TAGs)
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- UK strategic export controls annual report 2021
- UK Export Finance Performance Highlights 2021 to 2022
- The Trade Remedies Authority - our first year of operation
- UK Export Finance Executive Committee Minutes 2021
- UK lending to other national governments in 2021-22
Organisations
- Export Control Joint Unit
- Healthcare UK
- UK National Contact Point
- Government Chemist
- Environment Agency
- Forestry Commission
- Military Aviation Authority
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Regulatory Policy Committee
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Dounreay
- UK Space Agency
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Council for Science and Technology
- Office for Investment
- Sellafield Ltd
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- HM Land Registry
- Magnox Ltd
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Office for Life Sciences
- Office for the Internal Market
- Office of Tax Simplification