Up to 220,000 UK traders have yet to register for the government’s new customs declaration system as the 30 September deadline looms.

From October, UK imports will run through the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), as HMRC terminates support for the Customs Handling Imports and Exports Freight platform (CHIEF), but government efforts to migrate traders to the new system appear to be stalling.

One source told The Loadstar: “Importers haven’t realised the importance of the switchover; they’re doing fuck-all, even though if they ...

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  • Katherine Lawson

    June 23, 2022 at 3:07 pm

    If a company does not have any access to the CHIEF system and relies on their logistics service provider (freight forwarder) to complete customs declarations, do they still need to register with CDS as a company?