Commodity codes and reporting

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Services

• 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.

• Trading goods with the EU: when to declare using Intrastat

  Register or make Intrastat declarations to HMRC trade if you've traded in the EU above the thresholds

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Guidance and regulation

• Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 August 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• Data Element 2/3: Documents and Other Reference Codes (Union) of the Customs Declaration Service
  • Guidance
  • 8 January 2026
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• Check if you can pay a reduced amount of Customs Duty
  • Detailed guide
  • 5 August 2021
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• Preference codes for Data Element 4/17 of the Customs Declaration Service
  • Guidance
  • 9 December 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
• Additional Information (AI) Statement Codes for Data Element 2/2 of the Customs Declaration Service (CDS)
  • Detailed guide
  • 15 January 2026
  • HM Revenue & Customs

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Policy papers and consultations

• The Customs (Tariff and Reliefs) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
  • 12 July 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Policy paper
• Revenue and Customs Brief 14 (2021): Changes to the VAT treatment of importations of dental prostheses into the United Kingdom
  • 28 October 2021
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Policy paper
• HMRC impact assessment for the movement of goods if the UK leaves the EU without a deal
  • 7 October 2019
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Impact assessment

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Organisations

• HM Revenue
  & Customs