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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.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Tariff quotas let you import a certain amount of specific goods at a lower rate of duty. Most tariff quotas operate on a first come first serve basis.
How retained GEA licences authorise the export of certain controlled items to specified countries.
Find a list of codes which may be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for airports (Appendix 16A).
Find out if you can claim relief from employer Class 1 National Insurance contributions when you employ someone in a UK Freeport or Investment Zone special tax site.
This guidance outlines the requirements for claiming preferential tariffs under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
How and when to make a supplementary declaration when using simplified declarations to bring goods into the UK.
How to use Method 4 to work out the customs value of your imported goods if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
Use the Import Control System if you import goods from outside of the EU into Northern Ireland or move goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, to give information to customs before your goods arrive.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Guidance on imports from Russia and Belarus requiring additional duties and terms of exemption.
How to get relief from excise duty on oil used in certain ways using the Industrial Relief Scheme, also known as the Tied Oils Scheme.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
If you have a disability, or are an organisation supporting disabled people, you may be able to claim relief from Customs Duty and VAT.
Find out how to claim Returned Goods Relief if you’re re-importing goods into the EU.
Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU to Great Britain.
Use this service if you're an authorised loader arriving or departing goods from the UK.
This guidance gives information about when you can, or need to, account for VAT on your tax return if you're a UK VAT-registered business.
Information to help businesses prepare for a new approach to importing goods to Great Britain under the Border Target Operating Model.
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