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Read about temporary adjustments to agri-environment scheme options and actions in 2024 due to wet weather.
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you are applying from outside the UK.
Check if an inward or outward processing authorisation requires an economic test to test the impact the authorisation holder's goods have on UK producers.
Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you're applying from inside the UK.
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.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
Find out how to validate your facility when you seek approval to open, including special requirements for continuous and blood processors.
Check if you should submit a standardised exchange of information using the EU Customs Trader Portal for inward or outward processing.
Find out how to carry out a processing test, which is part of validation for continuous animal by-product processing facilities.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
Check if you can apply for Authorised Use relief to reduce your payments when you import goods for a specific use. This can include repairs, maintenance or processing.
Use this service to create a UK processing statement for fish and shellfish that have been imported or landed directly into the UK for processing, ready for export.
Submissions related to human medicines need to be submitted directly to the MHRA.
A description of what GDS Technical Architect job interviews are like, and how the interview process works.
Find the correct economic code to explain what you'll do with your goods under an inward processing authorisation.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
Find out how to move your goods from inward processing into free circulation, another special procedure or re-export.
Details of the process changes for established medicines, effective from 1 March 2024, which apply specifically to chemical products.
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