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Check the availability and any issues affecting the Import Control System 2 (ICS2) service.
Get help classifying computers, inkjet and toner cartridges and their components.
Find out how to send post or a parcel to someone outside of the UK.
How a commodity code and related additional code affects what is needed on an import or export declaration (or customs clearance request).
Find a list of codes which can be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for internal temporary storage facilities (Appendix 16D).
This guidance explains improvements to the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) rules of origin announced in July 2025.
Find out if anti-dumping duty, countervailing duty and safeguard measures apply to your goods and how to claim a repayment.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
How to get relief from excise duty on oil used in certain ways using the Industrial Relief Scheme, also known as the Tied Oils Scheme.
Find the tax type codes which identify the kinds of duty or tax to be paid or secured (Appendix 8).
Find out what information you'll need for your application and apply for Authorised Economic Operator status.
Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
The designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants or their parts and derivatives.
You can claim a relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you're importing goods for charitable use.
Check the documents that detail product specific tariff-rate quotas, including the individual product volumes and rates, and also list of eligible goods and their authorised uses.
Find out what to do when goods declared for export in Northern Ireland leave an EU country, or when goods declared in an EU country leave Northern Ireland, moving to Great Britain (England, Scotland or Wales) or a non-EU cou…
Additional steps you or someone acting on your behalf may need to take to tell HMRC that your goods have arrived in the UK at a location using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.
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