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Importing: an overview
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Guidance and forms about importing and exporting goods, customs declarations, duties and tariffs. Including carriers and freight forwarders, storing goods, Freeports and commodity codes.
Goods that are controlled and how to get licences for them, the UK Strategic Export Control Lists, dealing with the Export Control Organisation (ECO).
International trade regulations for materials, equipment, goods and appliances, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, aerospace and defence.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
What you need to know and do to export or import objects of cultural interest.
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