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Look up Customs Declaration Service error codes.
Find out about repayment and remission of customs duties by HMRC and how to apply.
Check for workarounds to the declaration completion instructions for Customs Declaration Service known errors if you’re submitting a customs clearance request or customs declaration.
This collection brings together the CHIEF error codes.
How HMRC calculates and notifies UK-based businesses about customs civil penalties for contraventions of EU and national legal requirements.
Look up an error code if you enter wrong information into the CHIEF database system if you’re an importer or exporter.
Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) error report and solution.
When you can amend or cancel your declaration depends on if you have received a final tax calculation message or if the declaration has been cleared.
Find out what to do if you receive an error code whilst submitting a declaration using the Customs Declaration Service.
Find out the codes to be used to provide additional information in Data Element (DE) 2/2 of the customs declaration or clearance request (Appendix 4).
What happens if you underpay import or export duties and who is responsible for the debt.
Use this service to disclose an underpayment of Customs Duty, excise duty or import VAT on an import declaration (entry) made using CHIEF.
Find out what happens when a pre-lodged import declaration is rejected and what you need to do to get your goods released.
Notice made under The Customs (Preferential Trade Arrangements: Error in Evidence of Origin) Regulations 2024 which has force of law.
Find a list of codes for the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared (for example, licences and certificates) in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5A).
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