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Find out if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK and how to make the declarations.
What you need to do when making a full declaration to bring or receive goods into the UK.
Follow these steps when preparing to make an exports declaration on the Customs Declaration Service.
Use these examples to help you complete declarations on the Customs Declarations Service for imports to Great Britain from the rest of the world.
Find a list of codes for the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared (for example, licences and certificates) in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5A).
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