Supporting International Businesses

Essential import and export support for today’s global marketplace.

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Accredited Learning Pathways

Drive Compliance with Confidence

Today’s learning. Tomorrow’s capability.


Strong & Herd’s accredited Learning Pathways are designed for professionals who want more than just theory. Our focus is on practical application, helping you build knowledge you can actually use, and that’s where we make a difference.

Strong & Herd™ LLP work to support and upskill businesses in the areas of export, import and customs procedures. As well as providing practical training we are an outsource helpline function to numerous companies who need support with customs compliance requirements and to import or export goods.

We help produce key import and export guides and magazines as well as running a practical helpline with regular updates to clients. To achieve this we have access to numerous websites and first-hand updates from the regulators including HMRC.

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by Gail Leeson 2 June 2026
HMRC have advised on the action to be taken when users experience declaration error messages after the NCTS6 update on 1 st June.
by Gail Leeson 28 May 2026
HMRC have released final details of the scheduled NCTS downtime needed to support the deployment of NCTS6. The brief 2-hour period of NCTS downtime will impact both the Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI) NCTS services.
by Gail Leeson 19 May 2026
The Export Control Joint Unit has published Notice to Exporters 2026/13, dated 13th May 2026, confirming the importance of including export licence data in the Customs Declaration.