UK Alerts Exporters of New Requirement for Certain Luggage Exports

The U.K.’s Revenue and Customs agency this week updated its guidance for certain commercial exports carried in “baggage,” saying those exports now need to be declared using the country’s Customs Declaration Service. Exporters have until March 20 to “move all full customs declarations across to the Customs Declaration Service,” the agency said, adding that shippers will need “specialist software to make a full export declaration electronically” within the service.

A full export declaration is required if the goods are worth more than £1,500 ($1,885), weigh more than 1,000 kg in total, are subject to export licensing requirements, are alcohol, tobacco or fuel, are “being put into or taken out of a customs special procedure” or if the exporter is “claiming a relief on them,” such as value-added tax relief.