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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.
Find out about exercising due diligence when making customs declarations.
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.
How to apply to become an authorised consignor or consignee, and get authorised for other transit simplifications.
Find out about the customs value and using the valuation methods if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
How to amend or cancel simplified frontier declarations, C21s and non-special procedure non-monetary supplementary declarations.
The prohibitions and restrictions on the import of animal furs and skins into the UK and the export of salmon and trout.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
How to trade or move CITES-listed specimens through designated UK ports and airports.
Find codes for the allowable methods of payment when using the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 9).
Follow these steps when preparing to make an exports declaration on the Customs Declaration Service.
UK offices where movements under the Community and Common Transit procedures can start and end.
How HMRC calculates and notifies UK-based businesses about customs civil penalties for contraventions of EU and national legal requirements.
Use this service to disclose an underpayment of duty, VAT or other import charges on an import declaration made using Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF).
Use the customs declaration to suspend import duties while you process or use goods. This is a one-off authorisation called authorisation by declaration (AbD).
Find out what you need to do to get a guarantee waiver for a duty deferment account in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Form A is used to give proof of origin for goods being imported from countries covered by the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
How Standard Shipping Notes, Dangerous Goods Notes and Export Cargo Shipping Instructions work, and where you can get them from.
Find what you or your business may need before you hire someone to act directly or indirectly on your behalf.
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