Temporary Admission (TA)

Used for goods temporarily imported for a specific use for a limited time, such as for an exhibition. For further informtion, please refer to the Special Procedures Guide.

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Certain goods benefit from a temporary suspension or reduction of Customs Duty. This is designed to allow manufacturing industries within the EU to compete on equal terms with non—EU producers of finished products. It permits the complete or partial suspension of import duties on components or raw materials for further processing. For further information, please

The EU—UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement concluded between the EU and the UK sets out preferential arrangements in areas such as trade in goods and in services, digital trade, intellectual property, public procurement, aviation and road transport, energy, fisheries, social security coordination, law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, thematic cooperation and participation in

The Strategic Export Control List is a consolidated list of strategic military and dual—use items that require authorisation before export is permitted.

Goods whose production involved materials from more than one country, are considered to originate in the country where the most recent substantial or sufficient transformation occurred. For instance, goods being converted from one commodity code to another.

An approved place situated within an appointed area, generally within an approved port/airport, where goods are held in temporary storage until they are assigned a customs—approved treatment or use, such as being placed under a customs procedure or re—exported.

SIVA stands for Simplified VAT accounting possible. It is a scheme that allows businesses to reduce the level of financial guarantee needed to operate a duty deferment account for VAT purposes.

A Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) permits the export of certain goods to a specified importer, as set out in the licence.

When a business/trader is authorised to use Customs Freight Simplified Procedures (CFSP), goods that arrive from outside the UK (previously outside EU), an initial simplified frontier declaration (SFD) is submitted by the trader to allow the release of the goods. The Simplified Frontier Declaration is part of the customs declarations on the TSS simplified journey.