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Find out what you need to do when importing commercial goods into Great Britain in your accompanied baggage or small vehicle.
How to import goods under national or UN-level import controls. This includes weapons, sanctioned goods, or goods that could be used for torture.
Find out if you can declare personal goods orally or by conduct.
Look up Customs Declaration Service error codes.
You may be able to pay no Customs Duty or a reduced amount of duty for goods you bring or receive into the UK, depending on what they are and what you do with them.
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Find out how to move your goods from inward processing into free circulation, another special procedure or re-export.
Tell HMRC about voluntary underpayments arising on import of goods.
Find a contact list of Border Force customs offices and their opening times.
Find out how to contact HMRC to help you get a commodity code and what information you’ll need to send us.
Get help to classify electrical equipment such as communication equipment, cameras, and their parts and accessories.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.
Find codes for the preferential origin status of goods (Appendix 12).
Find out how the ATA Carnet works, what to do at customs, and what happens if your goods are lost, destroyed or stolen.
Find out about the different simplified declarations for imports and what you need to do to get authorisation to use them.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
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.
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