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How to account for import VAT on your VAT Return if you're using postponed VAT accounting.
Find out how to apply for a duty deferment account so you can delay paying most customs or tax charges when you import goods into Great Britain or release goods from an excise warehouse.
Choose how to pay Customs Duty, excise duties and VAT.
Find out how to give or view an authority to use deferment, guarantee or cash account to import goods.
Find out how to prove the originating status of your goods and check if you can claim preferential tariff treatment.
How to pay into or top up your cash account if you're making a frontier declaration.
Find out about trade agreements that can be used now.
Find the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared such as licences and certificates (Appendix 5A).
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
Information on UK sanctions currently in place and how to apply for the appropriate licences.
Apply for Temporary Admission to import goods to the UK, or move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and use them temporarily before re-exporting them.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Find out the completion rules and instructions for each 4-digit Requested and Previous Procedure Code that can be used in Data Element (DE) 1/10 for Imports.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Find out what you need to do when importing commercial goods into Great Britain in your accompanied baggage or small vehicle.
Find a contact list of Border Force customs offices and their opening times.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
You may be able to pay no Customs Duty or a reduced amount of duty for goods you bring or receive into the UK, depending on what they are and what you do with them.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
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