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Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products

• Units of measurement

  You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…

• Specified quantities

  Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…

• Packaged goods

  Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…

• Equipment and records

  Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…

• Labelling packaged goods

  You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…

Start date notices, inquiry & hearing notices and rejection letters published in 2023 for rights of way orders

• Updated: 21 December 2023

Find out the scale rate expenses for accommodation and subsistence paid to employees who travel outside of the UK.

• Updated: 26 March 2020

How to declare goods that are short shipped on import at temporary storage locations.

• Updated: 21 July 2025

Start date notices, inquiry & hearing notices and rejection letters published in 2024 and 2025 for rights of way orders

• Updated: 27 August 2025

Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.

• Updated: 18 July 2018

Find out about the goods that are restricted and controlled when importing or exporting merchandise in your baggage.

• Updated: 1 December 2023

Decisions and maps for rights of way orders published within 2023, 2024 and 2025

• Updated: 6 August 2025

Check the tariff classification for stuffed pastry (samosa).

• Updated: 11 July 2025

Get help to classify rice and related products for direct human consumption for import and export.

• Updated: 16 March 2023