Are UK businesses ready for safety and security declarations for EU imports?
Alex Pienaar, HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) director of customs policy & strategy, explains what ...
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By Alex Lennane
The UK government is finally beginning to understand the complexities of cross-border trade, according to forwarder association BIFA. It said in a release that the government had begun to provide some clarity on safety and security declarations, “a level of detail that had been missing”.
But BIFA added that more clarity was still required on other issues, such as how the government-mandated delays to Brexit provisions will impact the CDS rollout.
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