UK Customs Declaration Service (CDS): Filing Examples

Access the useful sample UK Customs Declaration Service (CDS) declarations for imports to the UK - from simple to complex, essential guidance for getting CDS right!

UK Customs Declaration Service CDS

Here are some examples of how to use the UK Customs Declarations Service (CDS) to fill out customs declarations for goods coming into Great Britain.

You can use these examples to help you understand the requirements for each data element in a customs declaration, see how the instructions for each data element lead to specific entries for each declaration and check your own declaration for correct formatting and compliance with the data element requirements.

Read the CDS Declaration Completion Instructions for Imports and the CDS Declaration Navigation Instructions, as well as the examples above. A false customs declaration will be turned down.

If you have trouble making CDS your declaration and have checked that the information you entered is correct, please contact us for help.

Standard customs declaration under the UK Customs Declaration Service CDS

• Standard import declaration with multiple items

• Import declaration in an inventory linked location with a license to import prohibited and restricted goods

• Import declaration in a non-inventory with a license to import prohibited and restricted goods

• Import declaration in an inventory linked location with a certificate to import prohibited and restricted goods

• Import declaration in a GVMS location with a certificate to import prohibited and restricted goods

• Import declaration claiming a waiver using document waiver code 999L

• Import declaration of excise goods, covering supplementary units and tax base

Simplified and supplementary declarations

• Import frontier declaration using simplified declaration procedures

• Imports supplementary declaration for removal of goods from private customs warehouse with 'Entry in Declarant’s Records' authorisation

• Import supplementary declaration with duty calculation manual override

• Import frontier declaration using simplified declaration procedures for goods being re-imported after temporary export under outward processing

Special procedures

• Import declaration with goods declared to temporary admission

• Import declaration for inward processing

• Import declaration for goods imported and declared to end-use

• Import declaration claiming return goods relief from customs duty and VAT

• Import declaration with entry to customs warehouse for goods being re-imported after outward processing

Complex scenarios

• Import declaration where imports are subject to safeguarding retaliate measures

• Import declaration claiming preferential quota

• Import declaration with additional costs for freight and insurance being declared across multiple line items

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