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Find out how you can hire a person or business to deal with customs for you.
How to pay into or top up your cash account if you're making a frontier declaration.
Find out the completion rules instructions for each 3-digit Union and National Additional Procedure Code that can be used in Data Element (DE) 1/11 for Imports.
Find a customs agent or express operator to help you with import and export declarations.
Apply for Temporary Admission to import goods to the UK, or move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and use them temporarily before re-exporting them.
Find out what to do if you experience a problem whilst submitting a declaration using the Customs Declaration Service.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Find a contact list of Border Force customs offices and their opening times.
Find out what you need to do when making a full declaration to send goods from the UK.
Tell HMRC about voluntary underpayments arising on import of goods.
ATA Carnet lets you temporarily export commercial samples, trade fair or exhibition goods and professional equipment to countries that are part of the ATA Carnet system.
Apply for licences and approvals you need to export controlled goods.
Find out about trade agreements that can be used now.
Find out how to contact HMRC to help you get a commodity code and what information you’ll need to send us.
Find out how to set up a Direct Debit with your bank or building society if you’ve set up your duty deferment account.
You can use a SIEL to make shipments of specified military or dual-use items to a named consignee and/or end-user.
Find codes for the preferential origin status of goods (Appendix 12).
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export or move plants and plant products.
Find out what you can do with your goods when they are being processed or repaired using outward processing.
How the UK's strategic export controls apply to academics, university researchers and their institutions, and when an export licence is needed.
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