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You can claim a relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you're importing inherited goods into the UK.
Designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants, or their parts and derivatives.
Get help to classify various items of iron and steel, primarily those classified under chapter 72.
Find codes which identify the type of customs authorisation held (Appendix 6).
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 online and face to face training courses to help you understand customs processes and how to add to or amend the list if you're a training provider.
You can claim relief on Customs Duty, VAT and Excise Duty if you're importing goods for testing, analysis or examination to the UK.
Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer documents you need to legally cross international borders in a UK-registered vehicle.
Find out if relief is available for goods using Temporary Admission and if your goods require you to be established inside or outside the UK.
Use the S&S GB service if you import goods into Great Britain and need to make an entry summary declaration.
Find a list of codes for the types of Government Department licences that can be declared for imports and exports in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5C).
If you're moving goods outside the UK, you'll need to make an exit summary declaration if you've not fulfilled safety and security requirements with a full customs export declaration.
Check if the business that stores your goods in the UK is registered with the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme if you're a trader based outside of the UK.
Form A is used to give proof of origin for goods being imported from countries covered by the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Find out which rates of exchange to use to work out the customs value of your imported goods if any invoice amounts are shown in a foreign currency.
Find out how to send post or a parcel to someone outside of the UK.
Required supporting documentation if you are registered to use the open general export licence (military goods, software and technology).
Guidance for exporters in EU and non-EU countries on how to complete health certificates to export animals and animal products to Great Britain.
Find out about the product-specific rules, to determine the origin of imports outside of a preferential agreement.
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