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How to pay into or top up your cash account if you're making a frontier declaration.
Find out the completion rules and instructions for each 4-digit Requested and Previous Procedure Code that can be used in Data Element (DE) 1/10 for Imports.
Find a contact list of Border Force customs offices and their opening times.
Find out about Customs Duty, excise duty and import VAT you may need to pay when you send gifts into the UK.
How to check the tariff rates that apply to goods you import.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Find a customs agent or express operator to help you with import and export declarations.
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
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.
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
When you can amend or cancel your declaration depends on if you have received a final tax calculation message or if the declaration has been cleared.
Tell HMRC about voluntary underpayments arising on import of goods.
Find out about trade agreements that can be used now.
Make an entry summary declaration if you move goods into Great Britain, into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, or into Northern Ireland from countries outside the EU.
Use the online service to report non-customs state aid payments you’ve received to HMRC and view your state aid allowance if you’ve claimed Customs Duty waivers.
Find codes for the preferential origin status of goods (Appendix 12).
Look up Customs Declaration Service error codes.
Find out how to give or view an authority to use deferment, guarantee or cash account to import goods.
Find out what you need to do when importing commercial goods into Great Britain in your accompanied baggage or small vehicle.
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