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On Wednesday 1 May, applications to the UK Carrier (UKC) Scheme opened for Fast Parcel Operators and operators within the Royal Mail Group.  The UKC Scheme is the authorisation scheme that will help businesses to physically move consumer parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland from 30 September 2024. It will allow businesses to send […]

Goods moving into Northern Ireland (NI) will require a safety and security declaration, called an Entry Summary Declaration (ENS). There are certain situations in which the best option is to complete an Entry Summary Declaration Only Movement in TSS, as shown in the graphic, below: For an explanation of each scenario, visit the ‘Common questions

To move goods from Great Britain (GB) to Northern Ireland (NI) travelling via Roll on Roll off (RoRo) ports, you will need a Goods Movement Reference (GMR) from HM Government’s Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS).  The GMR is a number and a barcode that links together all the customs declarations associated with a particular shipment;

When submitting declarations on TSS, you may sometimes receive error messages if data has been entered incorrectly or if there’s any missing information.  To help overcome these issues, we recommend reading the Data guide: TSS declaration data requirements on NICTA for information about the requirements of each field on the TSS portal, and how to

HMRC recently made changes that will affect how you make declarations into Northern Ireland through the Customs Declaration Service (CDS). To continue to move steel without being subjected to safeguard charges where relevant quotas are open, you (or your agent or intermediary) should no longer use the code ‘NIREM’. Instead, you must select ‘None of

In September 2023, HMRC wrote to businesses that buy used motor vehicles in Great Britain (GB) and move them to Northern Ireland (NI) for resale. They asked businesses to check their records for any vehicles held in stock since before 1 May 2023. This was because of changes to the way they’d have to account

If you’re moving commercial samples into Northern Ireland (NI) you may be able to claim relief from Customs Duty. What is a ‘commercial sample’? A ‘commercial sample’ is defined as an item that can only be used in the UK as a demonstration sample of goods in soliciting orders for the types of goods they

On Saturday 20 April, updates were made to the TSS Portal as well as improvements to the Northern Ireland Customs and Trade Academy (NICTA) website.  Following the update to the TSS Portal, you may notice that functionality has been introduced to automatically populate the importer’s details when they’ve input a valid GB EORI number  into

On Saturday 20 April from 17:00 to 23:00, there will be an update to the TSS Portal as well as improvements to the Northern Ireland Customs and Trade Academy (NICTA) website. These changes will require a short downtime of the portal. In addition, Supplementary Declaration submission will remain disabled until 08:00 on Monday 22 April

On 9 April, the Trader Support Service (TSS) hosted a webinar – ‘Windsor Framework: 30 September customs changes – 6 months to go’. This was the first webinar in a series of three on our Windsor Framework countdown, 6 months to go, 3 months to go and 1 month to go, and is beneficial for