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Find a Trading Standards office to complain about illegal sales activity or to get business advice about trading legally
Guidance for Trading Standards officers on how to enforce the hallmarking law.
Trading Standards teams can apply for the annual Touchstone Award.
Opposition is the legal procedure that allows you to try to stop a published trade mark going on to become registered.
Highlighting Trading Standards annual IP survey results and successful IP cases in the UK.
This guidance provides an overview of the different tariffs for products exported to the UK under the DCTS, including how to identify commodity codes.
This guidance explains the different preference tiers under the DCTS, including benefits for each tier, criteria for moving between tiers and transition periods.
Hallmarking was in the spotlight at the Chartered Trading Standards Conference in Birmingham in June 2023 with the presentation of the Touchstone Award.
This guidance explains the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) and how businesses can use it to export products to the UK.
Report reviewing standards in computer-based trading.
Standardisation explained.
The Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) cuts tariffs, removes conditions and simplifies trading rules for 65 developing countries.
How you import from and export to Turkey.
An independent report examining the impact and effectiveness of local authority trading standards services.
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.
You can use a SIEL to make shipments of specified military or dual-use items to a named consignee and/or end user.
The Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) was responsible for protecting consumer interests throughout the UK. Its responsibilities have been passed to a number of different organisations. View the closed OFT site in the UK Government Web Archive ....
The UK government encourages businesses to be socially and environmentally responsible and help defeat modern slavery in their supply chains.
This guidance explains what rules of origin (RoOs) are and the changes under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
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