Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol

The section 'Climate Change Levy Import/Export Additional Procedure Codes (APCs) 1CL, 2CL, 1FT and Appendix 16J' has been added. Declaration completion instructions relating to African Swine Fever controls have also been updated.

Guidance has been updated in the Northern Ireland supplement, Part 2 to provide guidance on using Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA) where a manual duty calculation (AI code OVR01) is declared.

The declaration completion instructions for certain products where the import control under ‘The African Swine Fever (Import Controls) (England and Scotland) Order 2022’ do not apply has been revised to remove commodity codes beginning 0206.

Declaration completion instructions have been added for certain products where the import control under ‘The African Swine Fever (Import Controls) (England and Scotland) Order 2022’ do not apply.

A new section with guidance on how to declare ‘Authorisation by Declaration’ on CDS has been added.

Guidance has been amended to clarify that non-GB EORI's cannot be declared on a Customs Declaration Service declaration. This applies to all data elements requiring declaration of an EORI.

Part 1 of NI Supplement: Changes have been made to the NI supplement to include new guidance for changes that come into effect from Jan 2022. Part 2 of NI Supplement: Guidance text on the use of CHIEF for movements into NI has been deleted as this functionality is no longer available on CHIEF.

This page has been updated with corrections to recent updates made on NIAID.

Users of the Trader Support Service can now use AI statement ‘NIAID’ for ROW-NI movements, when claiming customs duty waivers (subsidies).

Guidance has been updated to reflect that the additional information code ‘NIAID’ can now be used for Rest of World to Northern Ireland (RoW-NI) movements. Users of the Trader Support Service currently cannot use ‘NIAID’ for RoW-NI movements. Functionality for these users will be available in due course.

Changes made to NI and GB supplement to provide a definition for the exporter for use on Export Declarations only. These changes do not apply to import declarations.

Updated the Northern Ireland Supplement to the CDS UK Trade Tariff to incorporate the new Additional Information Code for entry in Data Element 2/2 when an excise duty off-set manual calculation is required.

The guidance for temporary use of CHIEF in Northern Ireland has been updated.

Guidance about Agri foods and the use of the NIDOM AI statement code has been updated.

Part 1 Tariff Supplement for CDS Volume 3 for the Northern Ireland Protocol page has been updated with an amendment for Interim requirements for waivers/exempt goods. Part 2 CDS Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol page has been updated with Interim Declaration completion requirements for agri-food movements.

Part 1 Tariff Supplement for CDS Volume 3 for the Northern Ireland Protocol page has been updated with an amendment for ‘Declaring your goods are not at risk’.

Guidance about 'at risk' and 'not at risk' goods has been updated.

This page has been updated with information about when and how Customs Duty waivers (subsidies) can be claimed via a customs declaration when EU duty rates are charged against ‘at-risk’ goods for Great Britain to Northern Ireland only.

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