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How to use the Trade Tariff tool or get help to classify your goods, so you pay the right amount of Customs Duty and import VAT.
How to subscribe or check if you have access to the Customs Declaration Service.
Duty deferment statements show the transactions and total amount you have deferred so far in the month, so you can see how much you owe and compare against your deferment account limit.
Find out if you can declare personal goods orally or by conduct.
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
Find out how to return goods requiring import and export declarations after importing them to another country, or if they're rejected for import at another country’s border.
Use a customs comprehensive guarantee to cover Customs Duty, excise duty and import VAT when you regularly import goods or use common and Union transit.
Find out how the CPD Carnet works, how to apply and what to do at customs.
Learn about about importing and exporting goods.
How transit can help you move goods through customs and where you can use transit to move goods to.
Find out if your goods have Union (EU) status and how to prove Union (EU) status if your goods are moving to ports or airports in the EU or from and to Northern Ireland.
Find out how you can use, process or store similar free circulation goods in place of goods that you have declared for a customs special procedure.
How to get a guarantor when you have authorisation to use a customs comprehensive guarantee.
Find out what to do when you transport goods under a transit movement into or through the UK from common transit countries.
Find out what to do when you transport goods out of the UK under a transit movement to common transit countries.
How to use Union Transit to move non-EU goods within the UK or EU, and to move goods to or from the special territories.
Use individual guarantees to cover customs duties for one-off or high value imports.
Notices made under the Customs (Special Procedures and Outward Processing) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 that have the force of law.
Plan the route your goods will take so you can make your transit declaration and support your haulier or carrier to transport your goods.
Notices made which have the force of law under the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018.
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