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What happens if you underpay import or export duties and who is responsible for the debt.
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 out how to return goods requiring import and export declarations after importing them to another country, or if they're rejected for import at another country’s border.
Apply for an export certificate to establish products in overseas markets.
Courses, seminars, workshops and webinars to help exporters understand their obligations under export control legislation.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Use this list to see if a business holds Authorised Economic Operator status with HMRC.
How you import from and export to Turkey.
Find out whether you're established in the UK for customs purposes.
Check which documents you need to carry if you're the driver or a passenger in a lorry or other heavy goods vehicle (HGV) that crosses international borders.
Licence for the export of a wide range of military equipment to low-risk destinations.
Information for heavy goods vehicle hauliers or drivers who attend an inland border facility, where customs and document checks can take place away from ports.
Find codes which identify the type of customs authorisation held (Appendix 6).
Find the codes which can be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) ports (Appendix 16S).
Required supporting documentation if you are registered to use the open general export licence (military goods, software and technology).
Countries have their own rules about what goods you can bring in using an ATA Carnet. Check with the issuer in the country you’re exporting to.
Find out which locations you need to submit an ‘arrived’ export declaration at before moving goods and where to take the goods if they need to be checked.
How assimilated GEA licences authorise the export of certain controlled items to specified countries.
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).
How you import from and export to Canada.
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