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Customs with minimum constraints

Simplify the movement of goods by ensuring customs declarations are accurate and tax liabilities taken care of rapidly.

Exim maintains the smooth flow of business and mitigates risk by managing tax and regulatory obligations. Because we are an accredited operator, we can handle imports and exports throughout the UK, and by being independent, we can also prioritise your shipments.

Customs Services

For a trading society we’re pretty good at putting up bureaucratic barriers. It’s all too common to find your shipment languishing in some wind-swept port, simply because a T was not crossed, nor an I dotted.

But who has the time to master the complexities of international trading regulations or the demands of individual nation’s customs declarations?

Acting as your direct representative we manage the whole process, advising on requirements and declarations, negotiating clearances, and handling tax liabilities on imports.

Unlike larger clearing houses, we offer a bespoke service that builds knowledge and experience in your team, and where larger operators simply add you to a queue, we prioritise your shipments.

Direct Representation Within the UK

Exim is an Authorised Economic Operator, actively involved in customs operations and international trade.

We maintain badge codes to enable us to manage customs clearances at most of the major UK ports of entry: Felixstowe, Harwich, London Gateway, Southampton and Liverpool to name a few.

Food & Drink

We have particular in-depth knowledge of the specific requirements of DEFRA/Port Health Authority to make completion of all necessary documentation and certification simpler, including the Common Health Entry Document (CHEDP) and the PEACH system (procedure for electronic application for certificate from the horticultural marketing inspectorate).

Get a load of the technicalities

There’s a whole container-load of terms and abbreviations to get your head around when importing and exporting through customs. The following list has some of the most common you’re likely to hear, but the key thing is, you don’t have to learn them all. Leave it to us.

Badge codes

Badge codes are required by agents to obtain custom clearance entries at UK Ports. Agents require a specific badge code for each port.

Bonded warehouse

A customs warehouse used for storage where no duties or VAT are paid until release.

Common health entry document 

(CHEDP)  

Used by Port Health to monitor products of animal origin or composite products and animal by-products.

Customs Declaration Service (CDS) 

Used for transmitting customs import and export entries.

Customs procedure code (CPC) 

Tells customs the regimes where goods are being imported or exported.

Department for environment food & rural affairs

(DEFRA)  

UK Government department responsible for improving and protecting the environment. Among other things, it oversees and sets the rules governing import and export of food and drink products.

Home use

Entered into free circulation with all duties or VAT paid

Inward Processing Relief Goods (IPR)    

Goods imported for processing or repair without paying customs duty or VAT.

Licence 

Imports during the validity of the licence reduces or zero duty rate.

PEACH

PEACH is the Procedure for electronic application for certificate from the horticultural marketing inspectorate It is the system used to track and approve imports of plants and fresh produce.

Quotas

Tariff quotas on imports during specified periods reduce or zero duty rate.

Returned goods

Goods that have been exported out of the UK and are returning in an unaltered state and no duty/vat is payable.

Tariffs

A tariff sets a code for each product that is imported or exported, describing the goods and the duty rate, the VAT rate, and if quotes or licences are needed.

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