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Trade with the UK as a business based in the EU

If you run an EU-based business, check what your business needs to know to continue trading with the UK.

• From: Department for Business and Trade, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for Transport, Home Office, HM Revenue & Customs, Department for International Trade, and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 22 September 2021

Webinars

Sign up for upcoming webinars to learn more about trading with the UK.

• Organisations that trade with the EU - webinars calendar
  • 7 December 2021
  • Guidance

Moving goods into and out of the UK

Rules have changed and there are border requirements placed on the movement of goods between the EU and UK.

• Border Operating Model
  • 16 June 2022
  • Guidance
• Moving goods into, out of, or through Northern Ireland
  • 7 January 2021
  • Collection
• Transporting goods between Great Britain and the EU by RoRo freight: guidance for hauliers
  • 2 November 2023
  • Guidance
• Get an EORI number
  • 28 July 2017
• List of ports using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service
  • 12 October 2023
  • Guidance

Specific rules for importing and exporting goods

You must check with your country’s customs authority what customs procedures will need to be applied for bringing goods from the UK to the EU.

• Food and drink businesses: working with the EU
  • 28 July 2021
  • Guidance
• Trading or moving CITES-listed specimens through UK ports and airports
  • 1 October 2023
  • Guidance
• Importing and exporting plants and plant products
  • 31 December 2020
  • Collection
• Exporting or moving fish from the UK
  • 19 August 2022
  • Guidance
• Importing or moving fish to the UK
  • 13 October 2023
  • Guidance
• Fluorinated gas (F gas): guidance for users, producers and traders
  • 3 August 2022
  • Collection
• Regulations: timber and FLEGT licences
  • 7 October 2022
  • Guidance
• Comply with UK REACH: submit and manage chemical registrations and notifications
  • 20 July 2023
  • Guidance
• Wood packaging goods for import and export
  • 30 November 2016
• Meeting climate change requirements in 2021
  • 31 December 2020
  • Collection
• Placing manufactured products on the market in Great Britain
  • 11 October 2023
  • Guidance
• Placing manufactured goods on the market in Northern Ireland
  • 3 October 2023
  • Guidance
• Using the UKCA marking
  • 11 October 2023
  • Guidance
• Cosmetic Products Enforcement Regulations 2013
  • 4 May 2023
  • Statutory guidance
• Declaring reusable packaging for Great Britain imports and exports
  • 22 August 2022
  • Guidance

Taxes and tariffs

Find out more about taxes and tariffs for EU businesses trading with the UK.

Use the EU search tool to find out what Customs Duty and VAT you need to apply when trading with the UK

The EU and UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement establishes zero tariffs or quotas on trade between the UK and the EU, where goods meet the relevant rules of origin.

• Look up tariffs, taxes and rules to trade with the UK
  • 3 February 2020
• Tariffs on goods imported into the UK
  • 4 April 2023
  • Guidance
• Delaying declarations for goods brought into Great Britain
  • 29 August 2023
  • Guidance
• Apply to use simplified declarations for imports you entered in your records without authorisation
  • 1 October 2022
  • Guidance
• VAT and overseas goods sold directly to customers in the UK
  • 13 May 2022
  • Guidance
• VAT and overseas goods sold to customers in the UK using online marketplaces
  • 13 May 2022
  • Guidance
• Refunds of UK VAT for non-UK businesses (VAT Notice 723A)
  • 17 October 2022
  • Guidance

Data protection and copyright

What EU businesses need to consider when transferring data to and from the UK.

• Using personal data in your business or other organisation
  • 28 June 2021
  • Guidance
• Protecting Copyright in the UK and EU
  • 30 January 2020
  • Guidance
• Changes to unregistered designs
  • 30 January 2020
  • Guidance
• Intellectual property after 1 January 2021
  • 1 October 2021
  • News story

Travelling for business and working in the UK

What EU citizens need to do if they are working in the UK.

• Visiting the UK as an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen
  • 27 May 2022
  • Guidance
• Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence
  • 20 September 2016
• Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland 
  • 28 June 2023
  • Guidance
• Entering the UK
  • 25 November 2014
• Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England
  • 13 July 2023
  • Guidance
• Immigration Rules
  • 15 November 2023
• The UK’s points-based immigration system: information for EU citizens
  • 9 September 2023
  • Guidance
• Frontier Worker permit
  • 15 March 2021
• EU Settlement Scheme: employer toolkit
  • 14 July 2021
  • Collection

Published 22 September 2021