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During this period, please note that any pre-lodged declarations affected by the changes must be amended before the goods arrive.
If customs declarations are not corrected prior to arrival, they will be rejected.
ALL MOVEMENTS UPDATE
Good Location Codes
New goods location codes will be added to Appendix 16 following this latest update.
IMPORT UPDATE
Additional Information Codes
Two new additional AI codes are to be added. These will be as follows
GMSCK - Used where goods covered by the Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate (HMI) General Marketing Standards (GMS) are selected for examination.
These declarations will receive a GMS ‘No Match’ message through the Border Trade Matching Service (BTMS); because of this, the following AI code and Document code need to be entered accordingly :
AI Code GMSCK is entered in DE 2/2, and Document Code C085 is entered in DE 2/3, with the document identifier of the GMS-related CHED-PP.
GRDEF is entered in DE 2/2 to record the identifiers of Due Diligence Statements for grouped goods subject to the EU Deforestation Regulations from the 30th December 2026.
Document Codes
New document code Y388 will be added to declare steel shipments imported into NI where there are multiple countries of melt.
This will be entered within DE 2/3 of the import declaration, and the names or country codes of the countries of melt and pour should be entered within the document ID.
Document code
Document Code - Y501 will be added to the CDS Code List. This document code is to declare Goods not containing steel laminations and cores as mentioned in paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2026/2133.
H7 Declaration Category
Upon completing an SRDS (Super Reduced Data Set) import declaration under an H7 category, up to 99 items may be entered in the customs declaration. Data element 1/9 will be auto-populated by CDS only if it is optionally completed.
The declaration will not be rejected if the above data element (1/9) is completed with an amount up to 99.
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