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This guidance is to help you know how to recognise a hallmark and who to contact about your consumer rights.
When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
Guidance for Trading Standards officers on how to enforce the hallmarking law.
How to apply VAT rules to supplies, imports and export of gold and investment gold.
How to move goods, in parcels or large letters, between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Winners demonstrate support for hallmarking excellence and help to protect consumers.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
This chapter is not intended to be an exhaustive list of every type of asset, instead it provides information relating to assets most likely to be encountered by the official receiver but that are not covered elsewhere in the guidance,...
Section last updated: January 2021.
Export bar placed on Iron Age gold brooches to allow time for a UK institution to acquire them.
Section last updated: May 2023.
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