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Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU to Great Britain.
Designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants, or their parts and derivatives.
Guidance for exporters in EU and non-EU countries on how to complete health certificates to export animals and animal products to Great Britain.
What import and export restrictions apply due to sanctions for UK companies when trading with Russia.
Information about Sevington BCP and the checks that take place there.
Check if a country or territory is approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Information to help businesses prepare for a new approach to importing goods to Great Britain under the Border Target Operating Model.
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
Rules to follow if you’re moving animals or animal products from one country to another and transiting through Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), known as ‘landbridge’ movements.
How to import or move high risk food and feed of non-animal origin from the EU to Great Britain.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
List of controlled goods that follow the normal import declaration rules if HMRC apply continuity plans due to system issues.
A list of places where you can bring consignments of plants, seeds and produce into the UK, including ports and airports.
Register so you can import or export regulated timber, wood products and bark, apply for export phytosanitary certificates, issue plant passports or apply ISPM15 marking.
Find out how inland pre-clearance checks affect you and what you need to do when we carry out checks on your goods.
Guidance for EU exporters, exporters from the rest of the world and UK importers, on how to import groupage or mixed load consignments of animal products into Great Britain.
Import prohibitions in force under the Russia Sanctions Regulations 2019, as amended. It should be read alongside the statutory guidance.
Information on what a border control post (BCP) is and the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks that take place there.
Find out what to do after you have brought goods into Great Britain by entering the details in your own records without getting authorisation in advance.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
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