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Import, export and customs for businesses

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HM Revenue & Customs, Department for International Trade, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Border Force
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Export Control Joint Unit, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, HM Treasury, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Department for International Development, Department for Transport, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Food Standards Agency, Health and Safety Executive, Home Office, Public Health England, and Rural Payments Agency
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Brexit

  1. Get your business ready to import from the EU to the UK after Brexit
  2. Get your business ready to export from the UK to the EU after Brexit

Get started

  1. Starting to import
  2. Exporting and doing business abroad
  3. Get an EORI number
  4. Get someone to deal with customs for you

Procedures and reliefs

  1. Import and export procedures
  2. Duty relief for imports and exports
  3. Notice 760: Customs Freight Simplified Procedures (CFSP)
  4. Contact lists of providers who support Customs Freight Simplified Procedures

Specific goods and services

  1. Importing vehicles into the UK
  2. Log in to use the Notification of Vehicle Arrivals (NOVA) service
  3. Taking a vehicle out of the UK
  4. Import and export controls
  5. Import and export of manufactured goods
  6. Importing food
  7. Port health authorities: monitoring of food imports
  8. Importing plants and fresh produce using the PEACH system
  9. Rules of origin for imported and exported goods

Prepare information for your declaration

  1. Finding commodity codes for imports or exports
  2. Customs Freight Simplified Procedures: excluded procedure codes
  3. How to value your imports for customs duty and trade statistics
  4. Exchange rates from HMRC in CSV and XML format

Declare your goods

  1. Customs declarations for goods brought into the EU
  2. Customs declarations for goods taken out of the EU
  3. The Union Customs Code
  4. UK Trade Tariff: volume 3

Pay import duty and VAT

  1. Paying VAT and duties on imports
  2. Refunds and waivers on customs debt
  3. Get copies of your duty deferment statements
  4. Anti-Dumping Duty measures

Carriers and freight forwarders

  1. Transporting goods
  2. Import Control System

Storing goods

  1. How to set up a customs warehouse to store goods
  2. Apply for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme

Moving goods in the EU

  1. Union Transit: moving goods between 2 EU territories
  2. Get ready to move goods between or through common transit countries including the EU
  3. Moving goods between or through common transit countries including the EU
  4. Use the New Computerised Transit System
  5. Submit union transit declarations through NCTS
  6. Declare goods you’ve moved in or out of the UK using Intrastat

Notices, forms and manuals

  1. Import and export forms
  2. Import and export notices: numerical order
  3. Excise notices: storing and moving goods
  4. Tariff notices
  5. Tariff quota notices
  6. Tariff stop press notices
  7. Customs information papers
  8. Import and export: HMRC manuals

Help and support

  1. Customs Declaration Service
  2. Help and support for international trade

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