Assured Customs Declarations awarded AEOC by HM Revenue & Customs.

Defra's published guidance with regard to the importation of fresh produce is out of step with the requirements provided in the UK Tariff.

From 31 October 2023, to import live animals or animal products from the EU and EFTA states into the UK you’ll need to follow the sanitary and phytosanitary rules for that import’s risk category, which have now been published.

As a result of the The Customs (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023, with effect from 1 December, declarants will be required to ensure that the GVMS declarations that they create are “arrived” following the importation of the goods.

2023 Tariff suspension application round open, closes on 6 August.

Although the UK left the customs union of the European Union (EU) on the at 11.00 p.m. on 31 December 2020, Border Force and HM Revenue & Customs have not exercised any significant controls on imports from the EU. Finally, with effect from 1 January 2022, it has been announced that importers will be required to make actual import declarations when they enter their goods, rather than be allowed 175 days. Also, importers will have to lodge health certificates from this time and be prepared for physical inspections from 1 July 2022.

The UK Government has announced that it will delay a host of border red tape for EU imports from October and January 2022 until July 2022.

New export health certificates, which were originally due to be required from October will now come into force in July next year. Physical checks on products of animal origin, including food and plants, which require Border Control Posts, will now not be enforced until July next year too.

Other security-focused checks will now also be delayed until July 2022.

From 1 January 2021, transit will be required where goods enter and pass through the EU before entry into the UK, e.g. a shipment from Switzerland travelling through France. It will also apply to a high percentage of goods leaving the UK for EU Member States other than France. Exporters should make the necessary arrangements now.

Controls will be implemented on certain goods imported from the EU from 1 January 2021. Principal amongst these are:

Plants and plant products:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/importing-and-exporting-plants-and-plant-products-from-1-january-2021

Animals and animal products:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/importing-animals-animal-products-and-high-risk-food-and-feed-not-of-animal-origin-from-1-january-2021

Excise goods:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/importing-excise-goods-to-the-uk-from-the-eu-from-1-january-2021