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As an EU fund supporting European traders with post-Brexit negative impacts is launched, UK traders say they have been left disadvantaged by continuing problems with the new customs IT platform, CDS.
As yesterday’s latest deadline passed, UK sources told The Loadstar what was needed was a “complete change of attitude” in terms of the support offered by HMRC for migrating to the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) from the Customs Handling Import Exporting Freight (CHIEF) system.
With significant numbers of traders having failed to migrate by ...
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John Cleeton
November 01, 2022 at 2:31 pmWe told Customs that CDS wasn’t fit for purpose and got an extension. Seems we weren’t wrong with the Business Continuity plan having to be put in place from 1030 today. From 1700 today the system is down for maintenance until 0900 tomorrow.