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You may need an individual guarantee or a customs comprehensive guarantee to enter goods into a customs special procedure and defer duty.
Find the Safety and Security (S&S) GB location code to use in your entry summary declaration when importing goods into Great Britain.
Find the codes which can be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) ports (Appendix 16S).
Check a list of software developers who can provide Customs Declaration Service and Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) software.
Follow these steps when preparing to make an exports declaration on the Customs Declaration Service.
Information for heavy goods vehicle hauliers or drivers who attend an inland border facility, where customs and document checks can take place away from ports.
Find out what you need to do when exporting commercial goods out of Great Britain in your accompanied baggage or small vehicle.
Find out how the CPD Carnet works, how to apply and what to do at customs.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Find out about the customs value and using the valuation methods if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
How HMRC calculates and notifies UK-based businesses about customs civil penalties for contraventions of EU and national legal requirements.
What happens if you underpay import or export duties and who is responsible for the debt.
Find out how to declare that your goods have been put to their authorised use, destroyed or re-exported.
How to use the customs value to calculate VAT for imported goods if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
Find out what you need to do when importing goods from outside the UK to a customs warehouse.
Find the Customs Office Codes for use with the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 14).
UK offices where movements under the Community and Common Transit procedures can start and end.
Use Temporary Admission to pay no duty on goods you temporarily import from outside the UK and then re-export.
Find the supervising office (SPOFF) codes for Data Element 5/27 when making a declaration to the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 17).
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
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