Amend or cancel a Customs Declaration Service import declaration

Amending a declaration

You can use your Customs Declaration Service software to submit amendments to import declarations. An amendment will cause the declaration to be re-validated.

Amendments can be made up until you receive a final tax calculation message from the Customs Declaration Service, unless:

• a claim to quota is being made, meaning the tax calculation at the end of the dwell time is provisional
• your account does not have enough balance to cover the customs debt (an alert will be issued to resolve this)

AfterIf you receive this message or if any of these scenarios apply, you cannot amend your declaration, butyou it can becancel cancelled and resubmittedresubmit it if itthe declaration has not been cleared.

If you submit a declaration and it is rejected, you will not be able to amend it. You will need to submit a new declaration.

If you submit an amendment to an existing declaration, and ityou isget rejected,an error message, you can either submit a a:

• nil amendment (an amendment with no changes) or a
• new amendment to correct the error. error

The declaration will be paused until the error is corrected.

The message and notifications you receive after making a successful amendment depends on the type of declaration and the software you are amending.using.

Using your software

You can contact your software supplier:

• for more information on how to make an amendment
• to check if you can find out the status of your declaration through the Customs Declaration Service, Declaration Information Service

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To request an amendment or cancellation after clearance, you must notify HMRC using either a:

• voluntary clearance amendment (underpayment) (C2001)
• repayment of import duty and VAT if you’ve overpaid (C285)