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This guidance explains the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) and how businesses can use it to export products to the UK.
Find out which licences and permits you need to operate vehicles with a gross vehicle weight above 3.5 tonnes on international journeys from the UK.
How to use the simplified declaration procedure when importing goods into the UK.
How to make an origin declaration if you're using it as proof of origin for products using the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer documents you need to legally cross international borders in a UK-registered vehicle.
Find out how to cancel or amend your duty deferment account in Great Britain and what you will need to do it.
How the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority investigates whether trade remedy measures are needed to counteract unfair import practices.
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.
Find out what you need to do if you move licensed goods into or out of Northern Ireland, including by import, export or transit.
Find out how to check your New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) guarantee balance.
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).
Tariff quotas let you import a certain amount of specific goods at a lower rate of duty. Most tariff quotas operate on a first come first serve basis.
Permits to travel to or through European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries, and the rules you have to follow.
Use these general provisions to help you determine the origin of your products.
How to declare imported goods to customs, by entering them in your own records.
Use a general guarantee account to cover any import duty due on goods when they enter the UK.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Find the correct economic code to explain what you'll do with your goods under an inward processing authorisation.
Check the data requirements needed for a Customs Goods Manifest.
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