News / UPDATE: CHIEF customs system will not continue running until 2025, says HMRC

UPDATED FEB 8 TO INCLUDE STATEMENT FROM HMRC:

“We have been clear that the Customs Declarations Service (CDS) will replace CHIEF by March 2023 and that all users will need to be ready to submit customs declarations on CDS by this point. Additionally, our plans to close CHIEF for import declarations on 30 September 2022 have not changed.

“The five-year contract that HMRC has with Fujitsu relates to a range of IT services – not just CHIEF. It also takes into account the decommissioning ...