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How to subscribe or check if you have access to the Customs Declaration Service.
How to use the Trade Tariff tool or get help to classify your goods, so you pay the right amount of Customs Duty and import VAT.
Find out how to get copies of your duty deferment statements.
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
Find out how the CPD Carnet works, how to apply and what to do at customs.
Learn about about importing and exporting goods.
Find out if you can declare personal goods orally or by conduct.
Find out how to return goods requiring import and export declarations after importing them to another country, or if they're rejected for import at another country’s border.
Use a customs comprehensive guarantee to cover Customs Duty, excise duty and import VAT when you regularly import goods or use common and Union transit.
Find out what to do when you transport goods out of the UK under a transit movement to common transit countries.
Find out if your goods have Union (EU) status and how to get Proof of Union status (PoUS) if your goods are moving to ports or airports in the EU or from and to Northern Ireland.
How transit can help you move goods through customs and where you can use transit to move goods to.
How you can use, process or store similar free circulation goods in place of goods that you have declared for a customs special procedure.
Find out what to do when you transport goods under a transit movement into or through the UK from common transit countries.
Notices made under The Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 which have the force of law.
Notices made under the Customs (Special Procedures and Outward Processing) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 that have the force of law.
Find out what tax reliefs and beneficial customs procedures are available to businesses in a Freeport.
Notices made which have the force of law under the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018.
Find out what to do if you use roll on roll off locations or the Channel Tunnel to transport goods to the EU from the UK.
How to use Union Transit to move non-EU goods within the UK or EU, and to move goods to or from the special territories.
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