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UK CDS Declaration & Customs Clearance Request Instructions or "UK Trade Tariff: Volume 3"

Streamlining Your UK Imports with Clear Instructions for CDS Declarations and Customs Clearance. CDS Declaration and Customs Clearance Request Instructions (UK Trade Tariff: volume 3 for the Customs Declaration Service (CDS)


Find the guidance, codes and procedures to use when importing or exporting goods when using the Customs Declaration Service (CDS).


This collection brings together guidance, code lists and declaration category data sets to use when making a declaration on the Customs Declaration Service.


You can use the UK Integrated Online Tariff or the Northern Ireland Online Tariff to search for import and export commodity codes as well as the tax, duty and licenses that apply to your goods.


If you are making a declaration using CHIEF, follow the guidance in the UK Trade Tariff: volume 3 for CHIEF.


Supplements to the CDS declaration and customs clearance request instructions

These supplements provide details of the changes that will apply from 1 January 2021.

Imports: guidance on completing an import declaration for the Customs Declaration Service

These links provide access to the CDS Declaration Instructions for Imports collection, including procedure codes, data sets and declaration completion rules.

Exports: guidance on completing an export declaration for the Customs Declaration Service

These links provide access to the CDS Declaration Instructions for Exports, including procedure codes, data sets and declaration completion rules.

Inventory Imports — Customs Clearance Requests: guidance on completing an import declaration for the Customs Declaration Service

These links provide access to the CDS Declaration Instructions for Inventory Imports, including procedure codes, data sets and declaration completion rules.

Inventory Exports — Customs Clearance Requests: guidance on completing an export declaration for the Customs Declaration Service

These links provide access to the CDS Declaration Instructions for Inventory Exports, including procedure codes, data sets and declaration completion rules.

Final supplementary declarations

Links for developers of trade software so that they can begin preparing their systems for this new process.

Known error workarounds

Combined appendices

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