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If you鈥檙e a business that brings goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain (England, Scotland or Wales), then you must submit information about your goods movements to HMRC or if you use an intermediary, such as the Trader Support Service.

You must make sure you provide the correct information so that the right tariff treatment is applied to the goods. You may submit this information using either:

• the free Trader Support Service
• a customs intermediary 鈥� find out how to get an agent to deal with customs for you
• a Customs Declaration Service enabled software provider
• a fast parcel operator or Royal Mail when the new requirements for business to business parcels movements are introduced 鈥� find out about sending parcels to and from Northern Ireland

If duty is payable on the goods you bring into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, and how much duty that is, will depend on whether:

• you can declare your goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� of onward movement to the EU 鈥� this is explained in section declaring goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�
• the goods meet rules of origin requirements under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement 鈥� this is explained in section claiming preference under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
• you鈥檙e eligible to claim a waiver, subject to de minimis State Aid limits 鈥� this is explained in section claiming a waiver
• the goods are eligible for reliefs, for example Returned Goods Relief 鈥� find out more in the claimed Returned Goods Relief section of this guidance
• you are able to use customs special procedures to suspend, and in some cases get partial or full relief from Import Duty

If none of these apply, then you will need to pay duty at the applicable EU rate. You can use the trade tariff tool to look up commodity codes, duty and VAT rates.

You can find out more about calculating applicable duty in how to make sure the correct duty is applied to goods you bring into Northern Ireland from countries outside of the EU and UK.

Claiming a waiver

You may be eligible to claim a waiver subject to de minimis State Aid limits for duty on 鈥榓t risk鈥� goods you move into Northern Ireland from Great Britain which might otherwise be liable for duty.

Example

An industrial business has a de minimis aid limit of 300,000 euros over any rolling 3 year period.

If the goods brought into Northern Ireland would be charged an average tariff of 6% and the business is bringing in a total of 5 million euros worth of goods, over 3 years the business could be liable for up to 300,000 euros of duty. This could be waived within the industrial allowance, if your overall balance does not exceed the 300,000 euros threshold within a 3 year rolling period.

This is dependent on the business not claiming any other de minimis aid in this period. If the business received other aid in this period, the amount they would be able to claim would be smaller. It鈥檚 important for the business to check that they are not exceeding their aid allowance each time they claim a waiver.

You should read claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain or countries outside the UK and EU in full as individual circumstances are different.

Claiming a repayment or remission of import duty

You may be able to claim a repayment or remission of EU import duty through the Duty Reimbursement Scheme if you:

• paid duty at the EU rate on goods you brought into Northern Ireland
• can provide evidence that your goods have met the conditions to qualify for a repayment

Find out how to apply apply to claim a repayment or remission of import duty on 鈥榓t risk鈥� goods brought into Northern Ireland.

Declaring goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�

If you鈥檙e moving goods which are in free circulation in Great Britain into Northern Ireland, then you will not need to pay any duty if the applicable EU rate of duty is zero. Where this is the case, the goods are regarded as 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�. This is unless the goods are subject to processing in Northern Ireland, where there are additional requirements.

You can check the additional requirements for goods subject to processing in 鈥榙eclaring goods you bring into Northern Ireland 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� of moving to the EU鈥�.

Where the applicable EU rate of duty is above zero, you can still declare your goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�, and benefit from zero duty if you are authorised under the UK Internal Market Scheme (and the goods you are moving meet the requirements).

This may be an easier option for you if the goods are for sale to, or final use by end consumers located in the UK (for goods moving to Northern Ireland from a country outside both the UK and the EU, the end consumers must be located in Northern Ireland).

Claiming preference under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement

The goods you bring into Northern Ireland from Great Britain may be able to benefit from the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. This would mean zero duty would be due on the goods.

To claim preference under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement when bringing goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, the goods must meet UK rules of origin requirements under the agreement.

Rules of origin requirements specify the minimum amount of processing or content that is required for goods to be considered 鈥榦riginating鈥� from the relevant trading partner. Find more information about the rules of origin requirements under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

You should note that declaring goods into free circulation in Great Britain on its own does not mean that they have UK origin.

You will need to declare that they meet UK rules of origin requirements on your declaration. Find out more about how to claim the preferential rate on UK-EU trade.

This may be a suitable option for you if you can prove your goods are of UK origin.

Claiming Returned Goods Relief

If you are moving goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, and those goods were previously moved to Great Britain from either Northern Ireland or the EU as goods in free circulation within the EU, then you may be eligible for Returned Goods Relief.

If the goods are eligible and have followed the correct process, there will be no duty due on the EU goods you move into Northern Ireland from Great Britain. Find out more about claiming Returned Goods Relief, including acceptable forms of evidence in pay less or no duty on goods you store, repair, process or temporarily use.

You will need to prove that the goods satisfied the conditions for acceptance as returned goods at the time of the previous movement or export from Northern Ireland or the EU.

Suspending duty through special procedures

You may want to consider using customs special procedures to suspend the duty payment on the goods you bring into Northern Ireland. Special procedures can help with cashflow, by delaying or in some cases removing the need for duty payment, including where you:

• are not yet certain about the final destination of your goods
• will be processing or storing your goods before selling or re-exporting them

You can declare goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� when they are declared into special procedures, and when they are declared out of special procedures, if the goods meet the conditions to be declared 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�. If you declare your goods 鈥榓t risk鈥� on entry to the special procedure, this does not stop you from declaring them 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� when you declare them out of the procedure.

Find out more about customs special procedures in our pay less or no duty on goods you store, repair, process or temporarily use guidance.

A financial guarantee is usually required while duty is suspended. If you are able to declare your goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� on entry to the special procedure in Northern Ireland and the goods are already UK duty paid, then your guarantee requirement will be 拢0. If the goods are 鈥榓t risk鈥�, the guarantee requirement will be at the applicable EU rate of duty.

When discharging your goods from a special procedure into free circulation in Northern Ireland, you will need to work out if your goods are 鈥榓t risk鈥� or 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� in the same way as you would at import. If:

• your goods are 鈥榓t risk鈥� when leaving the special procedure, the applicable EU rate of duty will be due in full
• you are able to declare your goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� and they entered the procedure from Great Britain with UK duty having been paid, there will be no duty due

When discharging your goods from a special procedure, and not into free circulation in Northern Ireland, if you:

• export your goods to a country outside of both the EU and the UK, no duty will be due
• return your goods to free circulation in Great Britain, no duty will be due (unless the goods entered Northern Ireland from Great Britain and were not already UK duty paid, in which case the goods remain liable to UK duty)

If you are bringing goods into Northern Ireland for processing and do not meet the additional requirements to declare these goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�, the inward processing procedure may be useful. You can also check the additional requirements for goods subject to processing in our declaring goods you bring into Northern Ireland 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� of moving to the EU guidance. You can suspend duty while you process your goods. You do not need to take into account the processing undertaken during the procedure when declaring goods 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� when you declare them out of the procedure.

If you are not sure of the final destination of your goods when bringing them into Northern Ireland, the customs warehousing procedure may be useful. You can suspend duty while you store goods in a customs warehouse. When discharging the goods from the procedure you can declare those that are:

• destined for the EU, 鈥榓t risk鈥�
• to remain in the UK, 鈥榥ot at risk鈥�, subject to meeting the other 鈥榥ot at risk鈥� requirements