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This guidance explains the different preference tiers under the DCTS, including benefits for each tier, criteria for moving between tiers and transition periods.
How to amend or cancel simplified declarations which have cleared.
Find a list of codes which may be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for airports (Appendix 16A).
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
How to import or move high risk food and feed of non-animal origin from the EU to Great Britain.
Find the supervising office (SPOFF) codes for Data Element 5/27 when making a declaration to the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 17).
You may need an individual guarantee or a customs comprehensive guarantee to enter goods into a customs special procedure and defer duty.
Use this service if you're an authorised loader arriving or departing goods from the UK.
Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.
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).
How assimilated GEA licences authorise the export of certain controlled items to specified countries.
Find out what you need to do when importing goods from outside the UK to a customs warehouse.
Use this guide as a supplement when using the CDS Declaration Instructions to import and export goods to and from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) after the end of the transition period.
Find out what you need to do to get a guarantee waiver for a duty deferment account in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Use this list to see if a business holds Authorised Economic Operator status with HMRC.
Find out how to value your goods to help when working out the VAT due when importing goods into the UK.
Find codes for the additions or deductions to the item price or amount being declared in the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 10).
Check for workarounds to the declaration completion instructions for Customs Declaration Service known errors if you’re submitting a customs clearance request or customs declaration.
What food supplements are and what you need to do as a business to sell them.
How the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority investigates whether trade remedy measures are needed to counteract unfair import practices.
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