Import, Export & Customs for Businesses: detailed information
Published: 01/02/2021
To assist you with Import, Export & Customs for Businesses, please see the following links from the gov.uk website
Business tax: Import, export and customs for businesses - detailed information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Quick links
Get started
- Get an EORI number
- Get someone to deal with customs for you
- Due diligence when making customs declarations
Prepare information for your declaration
- Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK
- Working out the value of your imports
- Check if you can claim a preferential rate of duty
- Exchange rates from HMRC in CSV and XML format
Reduce and delay duty
- Check if you can pay a reduced amount of Customs Duty
- Check if you can delay customs payments and declarations
- Import and export procedures
Declare your goods
- Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
- Software developers providing customs declaration software
- Excluded procedure codes when using simplified declarations for import
- When we select your goods for inland pre-clearance checks
Specific goods and services
- Importing vehicles into the UK
- Log in to use the Notification of Vehicle Arrivals (NOVA) service
- Taking a vehicle out of the UK
- Import and export controls
- Import and export of manufactured goods
- Importing food
- Port health authorities: monitoring of food imports
- Importing plants and fresh produce using the PEACH system
Carriers and freight forwarders
Pay import duty and VAT
- Check how to pay duties and VAT on imports
- Refunds and waivers on customs debt by HMRC
- Get copies of your duty deferment statements
- Anti-dumping duty measures
Storing goods
Moving goods in the EU
- Union Transit: moving goods between 2 EU territories
- Get your business ready to move goods to the common or EU countries
- Moving your goods to common or EU transit countries
- Use the New Computerised Transit System
- Submit union transit declarations through NCTS
- Declare goods you’ve moved in or out of the UK using Intrastat
Notices, forms and manuals
- Import and export forms
- Import and export notices: numerical order
- Excise notices: storing and moving goods
- Tariff notices
- Tariff quota notices
- Tariff stop press notices
- Customs information papers