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Use a customs comprehensive guarantee to cover Customs Duty, excise duty and import VAT when you regularly import goods or use common and Union transit.
Business guidance, treaty information and other documents to help you understand the UK’s membership of the CPTPP.
At the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, the UK outlines that our approach to resilience is rooted in our whole-of-society model, as outlined in the UK Resilience Action Plan published in July 2025.
You may need an individual guarantee or a customs comprehensive guarantee to enter goods into a customs special procedure and defer duty.
How to get a guarantor when you have authorisation to use a customs comprehensive guarantee.
The text of the UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and associated documents.
This guidance explains the different preference tiers under the DCTS, including benefits for each tier, criteria for moving between tiers and transition periods.
The text of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and associated documents.
How you import from and export to Japan.
Use form JCL1 to provide a security for potential debts for a Customs Comprehensive Guarantee (CCG) from a non-financial third party guarantor.
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