News and communications

HMRC updates on the implementation of the Customs Declaration Service and the transition from the Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

The UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, gave a statement during Hong Kong, China's WTO Trade Policy Review (TPR).

• Updated: 6 December 2023

In its initial findings the TRA recommends maintaining anti-dumping duties for another five years to continue protecting the UK’s cast iron articles industry.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

The Trade Remedies Authority has launched a transition review into countervailing measures on biodiesel imported from Argentina.  

• Updated: 5 October 2023

An update on the implementation of the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) and the transition from the Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF).

• Updated: 23 August 2023

Traders can now reclaim duty on goods moving into Northern Ireland which do not subsequently move into the EU after HMRC launched the Duty Reimbursement Scheme.

• Updated: 30 June 2023

The TRA has recommended implementing a new trade remedy measure to protect the UK’s optical fibre cable industry against low-priced imports from China.

• Updated: 21 June 2023

Plans to strip out retained EU red tape to give our wine industry the freedom to flourish

• Updated: 21 May 2023

The Secretary of State for International Trade has approved new anti-dumping measures recommended by TRA against Aluminium Extrusions from China.

• Updated: 16 December 2022

Exporters will have more time to move across to the Customs Declaration Service, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced.

• Updated: 15 December 2022

New exporters Jinhua Otmar Technology Co Ltd and Jinhua Seno Technology Co Ltd will pay an anti-dumping tariff rate of 16.2%, down from 62.1%.

• Updated: 29 November 2022

Recommendations on anti-dumping and countervailing measures on imports of Biodiesel and on anti-dumping measures on imports of Wire Rod have been accepted.

• Updated: 10 November 2022

Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan affirms strengths of the UK-Australia trade deal in speech to Australian British Chambers of Commerce.

• Updated: 2 September 2022

Businesses must submit import declarations through the Customs Declaration Service from 1 October.

• Updated: 30 August 2022

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding businesses that they must use the Customs Declaration Service for import declarations from 1 October 2022.

• Updated: 1 August 2022

New importers need to register with the Customs Declaration Service to make their import declarations from 5 July 2022.

• Updated: 4 July 2022

International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan updated the House of Commons on the government's final decision regarding the UK's steel safeguard.

• Updated: 29 June 2022

HMRC is writing to businesses to support them with the changes.

• Updated: 30 May 2022

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss updated the House of Commons on the government's intention to introduce legislation to make changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

• Updated: 17 May 2022

The UK government has introduced a bill which will help to bring into force its first independently negotiated Free Trade Agreements in more than 50 years.

• Updated: 11 May 2022