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Use this service to get your import VAT statements and certificates, manage your payment accounts, and manage or view authorities all in one place.
Get help to classify electrical equipment such as communication equipment, cameras, and their parts and accessories.
Check the tariff classification for accessories for toys.
Find out how you can import goods with a specific authorised use and pay less duty.
Find out about the different types of delivery costs, and which ones you must include or exclude in the customs value if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
Find out how to declare that your goods have been put to their authorised use, destroyed or re-exported.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
Change of name of a company subject to an individual duty rate on certain lever arch mechanisms, originating in the People’s Republic of China.
Find out how to give or view an authority to use deferment, guarantee or cash account to import goods.
Check if you can apply for Authorised Use relief to reduce your payments when you import goods for a specific use. This can include repairs, maintenance or processing.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments
The Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system is supported by detailed user guides for trade users. For Direct Trader Input to CHIEF and Inventory system linking we have the Technical Interface Specification guides.
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
The DUCR and the optional Part suffix is the main reference key to any Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight (CHIEF) declaration.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Customs Handling of Import Export Freight (CHIEF) online service.
Guide to licensing requirements and restrictions for trade control and the export of controlled military goods, software and technology.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Find out how you can use, process or store similar free circulation goods in place of goods that you have declared for a customs special procedure.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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