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The latest Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) newsletter release has been published. It gives the latest operational updates on border controls for importing live animals, germinal products, products of animal origin and animal by-products into Great Britain.
From 28 June 2025, licence data on declarations for goods movements into or out of Northern Ireland will be verified by the EU system CERTEX. This replaces Northern Ireland's Automatic Licence Verification System (ALVS).
HMRC has advised that the planned release of CDS version 4.8.0 will impact the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS), and declarations may be delayed if not submitted in good time before the CDS downtime scheduled for 22:30 on Saturday, June 14th.
With the US's approach to its tariff measures shifting, here are some key pointers for a UK business looking for more clarity on how the US Tariff functions.
As we bid farewell to May, we look forward to greeting many of you in person this June at Multimodal 2025 at the NEC Birmingham. We're proud to exhibit again at this leading event for the logistics, supply chain, and freight sectors. We look forward to reconnecting with our valued clients and meeting new ones!
HMRC have confirmed that the GVMS service will be updated on 3 June 2025 to allow for reference to the Transit Manual Fallback procedures to be used during any NCTS5 system downtime and Business Continuity procedures.
It’s a tale as old as Free Trade Agreements - you’re importing goods under preference, your supplier gives you an invoice statement, everyone’s happy – until HMRC comes knocking. Recently, an importer found itself facing a duty bill, despite having claimed preference. Why? Because the preference statement wasn’t exactly correct. Not wildly off, just... not replicated word for word in line with the FTA, which was mainly the UK-EU Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA).
There is a hint of a warning that UK businesses should think about possible customs compliance audits sooner rather than later, as the government strongly suggests that it’s time to ramp up audits to collect outstanding debt.
HMRC has advised that it is now possible to reclaim a security deposit or guarantee paid on import where evidence of the goods' origin was not available at the time the goods were imported.
