Import Licence

A document required and issued by some national governments, authorising the importation of goods into their individual countries.

Regulates a small proportion of imported industrial goods that require import licences.

The haulier is a business or person involved in the moving of the goods. Haulage is the business of transporting goods by road or rail between suppliers and large consumer outlets, factories, warehouses, or depots. This includes everything that might be moved in bulk — from vegetables and other foodstuffs, to clothes, ore, coal, and

Goods or cargo transported (from one place to another) by ship, train, truck, or airplane.

A freight forwarder, forwarder, or forwarding agent, is a company that organises shipments for individuals or corporations to get goods from the manufacturer or producer to a market, customer or final point of distribution.

Full Frontier Declarations are required for any goods movements from the Rest of World excluding the European Union to Northern Ireland, as well as for some scenarios of goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (e.g., those moving into Inventory—Linked Ports (ILPs) and when using certain special procedures). The Full Frontier Declaration is required

The TSS Full Frontier Declaration path requires traders to submit all information on their declaration and pay any necessary duties at the same time, generally before the goods move into Northern Ireland. Movements from Rest of World excluding the European Union or movements into inventory—linked locations must use the TSS Full Frontier Declaration path. While

The law of general average is a principle of maritime law whereby all stakeholders in a sea venture proportionately share any losses resulting from a voluntary sacrifice of part of the ship or cargo to save the whole in an emergency. For instance, should the crew jettison some cargo overboard to lighten the ship in a storm, the loss would be shared pro rata by

The GIRs are a set of six rules provided to ensure uniform legal interpretation of the Harmonized System for the accurate classification of goods. For further information, please refer to the World Customs Organization (WTO).

Unilateral trade agreements designed by developed countries to support the economies of developing and least developed countries. GSPs gives eligible developing countries certain trade preferences. These trade preferences reduce or remove rates of duty (tariffs) on imports.