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Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
A summary report from two workshops on recent advances in social discounting practice and theory.
Find out if you need to pay Tobacco Products Duty if you make or import tobacco, how much it is and when you can suspend or defer payment.
Includes regulations for online retailers, offering credit and Trading Standards
How to fill in your Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) VAT Return and the records you need to keep when reporting the VAT due on imports of low value goods to consumers in the EU, Northern Ireland, or both.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Website of Cumberland Council
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.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
Find out if VAT is due when you sell, send or transfer goods from Great Britain to outside the UK or from Northern Ireland to outside the UK and EU.
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.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright. IPO is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology , supported...
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
This page lists the locations and opening dates of temporary jobcentres.
If you buy a pet dog or cat, it’s important that you make checks to help combat the illegal trade in pet animals.
Things to consider when buying and using products.
Find news, information and advice from the government on starting or growing your business.
Guidance for UK businesses on rules for selling services to Spain.
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