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You can claim a relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you’re permanently importing museum and gallery exhibits into the UK.
Anyone in Northern Ireland selling medicines to the public via a website must still comply with the requirement to apply the EU common logo.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
How to make an origin declaration if you're using it as proof of origin for products using the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
Find out how the new Customs Declaration Service cash account works, when it can be used and what type of customs charges you can pay.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Set up a Direct Debit with your bank or building society if you’ve applied for a duty deferment account.
To help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in Laos.
How to make export declarations and get goods through the UK border
Find out which locations you need to submit an ‘arrived’ export declaration at before moving goods and where to take the goods if they need to be checked.
When you export goods outside the UK for processing or repair and then re-import them, you can use outward processing to reduce your duty payments.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
This guidance explains what rules of origin (RoOs) are and the changes under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
Supplier declarations are where your UK supplier provides you with information needed to prove the origin of your goods for preferential rates of duty between the UK and other countries.
Find out what to do if you receive an error code whilst submitting a declaration using the Customs Declaration Service.
Check how you can operate an authorised consignee temporary storage facility so you can store goods for up to 6 days, including how to get authorised.
Form A is used to give proof of origin for goods being imported from countries covered by the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
Use the online or postal form L5 to apply for a licence to carry on an excise trade.
Find out how to value your goods to help when working out the VAT due when importing goods into the UK.
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