Business tax

Import, export and customs for businesses: detailed information

• From: HM Revenue & Customs, Department for International Trade, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, HM Treasury, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
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  Border Force, Cabinet Office, Export Control Joint Unit, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Department for Transport, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Food Standards Agency, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Government Chemist, Public Health England, and Rural Payments Agency

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Quick links

• Import goods into the UK: step by step
• Export goods from the UK: step by step
• Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland

Get started

• Get an EORI number
• Get someone to deal with customs for you
• Due diligence when making customs declarations

Prepare information for your declaration

• Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK
• Working out the value of your imports
• Check if you can claim a preferential rate of duty
• Exchange rates from HMRC in CSV and XML format

Reduce and delay duty

• Check if you can pay a reduced amount of Customs Duty
• Check if you can delay customs payments and declarations
• Import and export procedures

Declare your goods

• Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
• Software developers providing customs declaration software
• Excluded procedure codes when using simplified declarations for import
• When we select your goods for inland pre-clearance checks

Specific goods and services

• Importing vehicles into the UK
• Log in to use the Notification of Vehicle Arrivals (NOVA) service
• Taking a vehicle out of the UK
• Import and export controls
• Import and export of manufactured goods
• Importing food
• Port health authorities: monitoring of food imports
• Importing plants and fresh produce using the PEACH system

Carriers and freight forwarders

• Making an entry summary declaration

Pay import duty and VAT

• Check how to pay duties and VAT on imports
• Refunds and waivers on customs debt by HMRC
• Get copies of your duty deferment statements
• Anti-dumping duty measures

Storing goods

• Apply for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme

Moving goods in the EU

• Union Transit: moving goods between 2 EU territories
• Get your business ready to move goods to the common or EU countries
• Moving your goods to common or EU transit countries
• Use the New Computerised Transit System
• Submit union transit declarations through NCTS
• Declare goods you’ve moved in or out of the UK using Intrastat

Notices, forms and manuals

• Import and export forms
• Import and export notices: numerical order
• Excise notices: storing and moving goods
• Tariff notices
• Tariff quota notices
• Tariff stop press notices
• Customs information papers

Help and support

• Help and support for international trade