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Putting your goods into temporary storage means you can delay the full customs declaration and payment of import VAT and duty for up to 90 days.
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
Find out how to link your temporary storage facility to the Customs Declaration Service using a Community Systems Provider.
Find out about movements to temporary storage facilities from border locations in Great Britain operating the pre-lodgement model.
Check if you can operate a facility and meet the conditions to store imported goods temporarily and find out how to apply.
How the government supports the development and deployment of carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) in the UK and internationally.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Financial support for traders and farmers from intervention and Private Storage Aid schemes
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
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