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How you import from and export to Canada.
Find the notes for all Declaration Category Data Set tables covered by Appendix 21-25 of the CDS Declaration and Customs Clearance Request Instructions.
Find out what you'll need to get a legally binding decision on the commodity code to use when importing or exporting your goods.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
Find the codes which may be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where goods may be examined for a remote internal temporary storage facility (ITSF(R)) (Appendix 16E).
Prepare your business for the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement if you trade or move plants, plant products, animals, animal products, feed and food.
Find package type codes for Data Element 6/9 (Appendix 18).
Find the national additional codes to be declared in Data Element 6/17 to calculate duties and taxes (Appendix 19).
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live birds, poultry or poultry products to Great Britain.
Check if you can apply for authorised use to reduce your payments when you import goods for a specific use. This can include repairs, maintenance or processing.
Register so you can import or export regulated timber, wood products and bark, apply for export phytosanitary certificates, issue plant passports or apply ISPM15 marking.
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
This open general import licence (OGIL) permits the importation of all goods into the United Kingdom, subject to the various exceptions it sets out.
Find a list of the codes which may be used to identify the location where goods may be examined for regulated aerodromes (Appendix 16B).
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Guidance for competent authorities submitting a residue control plan and test results to Defra for exports of products of animal origin for human consumption to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live or genetic material of dogs, cats or ferrets to Great Britain.
Get help to classify electric lamps for import and export.
Find out details of the procedure codes and additional procedure codes that are excluded from use with Simplified Declaration Procedure (SDP) with regular use and Entry in Declarants Records (EIDR).
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