We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
How you import from and export to Mexico.
Find the notes for all Declaration Category Data Set tables covered by Appendix 21-25 of the CDS Declaration and Customs Clearance Request Instructions.
Putting your goods into temporary storage means you can delay the full customs declaration and payment of import VAT and duty for up to 90 days.
Find out what to do when you transport goods under a transit movement into or through the UK from common transit countries.
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.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live birds, poultry or poultry products to Great Britain.
This guidance outlines the requirements for claiming preferential tariffs under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
Find out what you need to do if you move licensed goods into or out of Northern Ireland, including by import, export or transit.
Guidance on the import requirements for participating businesses, including guidance for certifying officers.
This Appendix contains the index list of Procedure Codes for Data Element 1/10 for CDS Inventory Imports Customs Clearance Requests (CCRs).
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
Find codes for the delivery terms for each mode of transport to be used in Data Element 4/1 (Appendix 7).
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live or genetic material of dogs, cats or ferrets to Great Britain.
Find out what information you will need to apply for Authorised Economic Operator status, including customs simplification status and security and safety status.
Find out how to apply to operate premises as an excise warehouse, how to renew or make changes to your approval and what happens if HMRC cancel your approval.
Find out about the customs simplified procedure aggregation rules for the Customs Declaration Service (CDS).
Find a list of codes for the types of Government Department licences that can be declared for imports and exports in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5C).
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).