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This guidance provides an introductory guide to the standards and regulatory requirements that businesses may need to meet, to import and sell goods in the UK.
Find out which body is responsible for licensing your activity, and send your application to the correct team.
How to check if certain transactions, goods and services are exempt from sanctions measures (exceptions), and how to use or apply for sanctions licences.
Check when you need to use this system to make an entry summary declaration for goods moving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, or into Northern Ireland from countries outside the EU.
Trade remedies notices published by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade relating to the tariff-rate quotas on steel goods.
How to import or move animal by-products from the EU to Great Britain.
Get help to classify footwear and parts of footwear for import and export.
Rules for moving goods between the UK and EU under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
How product specific rules are used to identify the country of origin when importing or exporting between the UK and EU.
Find out what you need to do to get a guarantee waiver for a duty deferment account in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Get help classifying computers, inkjet and toner cartridges and their components.
Technical information about the import requirements for POAO for human consumption, for use by vets, importers and border officials.
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).
Find the location codes for the UN/LOCODE to be used in Data Elements 4/1 and 5/23 when using the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 16I).
Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.
Find out what information you'll need for your application and apply for Authorised Economic Operator status.
These maps show Freeport locations in the UK, their outer boundaries and the Freeport tax sites within them.
Find out how to apply for a duty deferment account, so you can delay paying most customs or tax charges when you import goods or release goods from an excise warehouse.
Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer documents you need to legally cross international borders in a UK-registered vehicle.
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