Customs

Export Customs Clearance: Advice For First Time Exporters

Selling to businesses outside of the EU? Get ready for a lot of customs paperwork! In this guide to export customs clearance, we’ll explain everything...
Customs

Tariff Codes for Clothing: HS Codes For Garments

What’s the right tariff code for clothes? If you’re exporting clothing from (or importing to) Ireland, which HS codes do you need to use, and...
Brexit, Customs, Transport, Warehousing

Free Trade Zones: A Beginner’s Guide

Free Trade Zones are customs-approved sites that offer tax breaks and exemptions to strategically-important businesses … but how do they work?  In this beginner’s guide...
Customs

Re-Importing: Customs Rules & Reliefs When Returning Goods

When a customer in the UK (or any other third country) wants to return goods to you, what goes on the customs form? What can...
Customs, News

Preferential Tariff Schemes: Are You Paying The Right Customs Duty?

What are preferential tariffs, do they apply to your business and if so, how much money can you save? In this guide we’ll explain the...
Customs

Binding Origin Information: What is it and should you get it?

What is Binding Origin Information (BOI)? Do you need Binding Origin Information to export goods to the UK, and how much does it cost? In...
Customs, Industry

Customs Paperwork When Exporting To The UK

Don’t know the difference between an ENS and an SAD? Not sure why customs are asking you for a CMR consignment note? Don’t worry —...
Brexit, Customs, Industry

Hiring a Customs Clearance Service: A Beginner’s Guide

Do you need a Customs Clearance service? How does it work, what’s included in the service and what kinds of transport business can deliver it...
Brexit, Customs, Industry

Customs To & From Northern Ireland: What businesses need to do

Moving goods on a business-to-business basis through the North? There are certain steps that you should take to comply with EU and UK customs laws. ...
Customs, Export, Industry, News, UK

Rules of Origin: What Every Exporter Needs To Know

Any business that wants to move goods in or out of the UK now needs to complete a Customs declaration … and one of the...
Brexit, Customs, News, Transport

Brexit Transition Period: What happens next?

It’s been almost a month since the UK formally left the European Union, which means we’ve got about ten months left to sort out a...
Customs, Industry, News, Transport

Incoterms 2020: What’s changed?

The International Chamber of Commerce’s latest version of Incoterms (Incoterms 2020) came into effect on 1st January 2020.  Why did the ICC replace Incoterms 2010,...
Brexit, Customs, News

Third Country Customs: How it all works

If the UK becomes a third country after Brexit, Irish customs authorities will have to process 12 times as many import/export declarations, and a whopping...
Brexit, Customs, News

HS Codes: A Short Guide

For those of us planning to trade with the UK after Brexit, HS codes will soon become a fact of life.  Find out what HS...
Brexit, Customs, Industry, News, Transport

UK Election 2019: What it means for Brexit

The ballot papers have been counted, and it’s official: the UK’s Conservative party won by a landslide. As of this morning, the UK’s departure from...
Brexit, Customs, Industry, News, Transport

Baku GLS at the FTA Council Meeting

It’s been a busy week here at Baku GLS!  On Wednesday, Baku’s Mary Mullins and Phil Cassidy attended FTA Ireland’s council meeting, where Mary gave...
Brexit, Customs, News, Team, Transport

Baku GLS awarded AEO Status!

Baku GLS have today been awarded AEO status! AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) is the gold standard for international supply chain operators in Europe. It’s an...
Brexit, Customs, News, Warehousing

Temporary Storage Facilities: A Short Guide

The Baku GLS warehouse in Rosslare is now a Temporary Storage Facility (TSF). As a TSF, we can now hold non-EU goods, not yet cleared...
Brexit, Customs, Industry, News, Transport

Johnson’s New Deal: What’s the Difference?

Following weeks of intense negotiations, the UK and EU published a fresh new Brexit deal yesterday, dramatically improving the chances of an orderly departure on...
Brexit, Customs, News, On the Road, Technology, Transport

Positive & Promising: NI/ROI Border Developments

Following “very positive and promising” private talks with Boris Johnson yesterday, Leo Varadkar announced that he could see a “pathway towards an agreement in the...
Brexit, Customs, News

Delivered Duty Paid: Your Responsibilities as an Exporter

After Brexit Day, Irish exporters using DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) Incoterms will find themselves responsible for customs compliance on any shipments moving into the UK. ...
Brexit, Customs, News, Transport

Operation Yellowhammer: what do we need to know?

It has been another interesting week at Westminster. Moments before Boris Johnson shut down Parliament for five weeks, the UK’s House of Commons managed to...
Brexit, Customs, News

10 weeks until a no-deal Brexit …maybe

Getting a sense of deja vu? You’re not alone! Brexit Day is once again 10 weeks away, with no prospect of a deal in sight...
Brexit, Customs, News

Clear Customs Initiative: Getting Ireland Brexit Ready

Have you registered for the Clear Customs Initiative yet? Launched earlier this month, Clear Customs is a support programme designed to give Irish exporters, customs...
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