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UK customs updates (Feb 2024): Focus on the movement of goods from the island of Ireland to Great Britain
HM Revenue & Customs has announced significant changes affecting UK importers from 31 January. The most important customs and customs-related updates, with a focus on EU-UK trade, have been summarised … and explained in the overview below.
Mark Rowbotham
UK customs updates (Feb 2024): Focus on the movement of goods from the island of Ireland to Great Britain
HM Revenue & Customs has announced significant changes affecting UK importers from 31 January. The most important customs and customs-related updates, with a focus on EU-UK trade, have been summarised and explained in the overview below.
Mark Rowbotham
Phytosanitary, veterinary and sanitary import controls in various countries
Any state that allows animals, plants or products of animal and plant origin to enter its territory shall establish additional measures aimed at protecting people, animals and plants from infection, … pests and diseases. Having a similar purpose, these measures differ depending on the country of their application. The article offers examples of the use of such measures in some countries, in particular, the UK (where the IPAFFS system is replacing the EU's TRACES), Ukraine and the Eurasian Economic Union.
Dinesh Unadkat , Ilona Mishchenko
Phytosanitary, veterinary and sanitary import controls in various countries
Any state that allows animals, plants or products of animal and plant origin to enter its territory shall establish additional measures aimed at protecting people, animals and plants from infection, pests and diseases. Having a similar purpose, these measures differ depending on the country of their application. The article offers examples of the use of such measures in some countries, in particular, the UK (where the IPAFFS system is replacing the EU's TRACES), Ukraine and the Eurasian Economic Union.
Dinesh Unadkat , Ilona Mishchenko
The most unexpected customs risk that businesses faced
Is it possible for the business to consider all the possible customs-related risks? The answer to the poll question was unambiguous. All participants of the 8th Authors' Meeting on 21.10.2021 … said… NO! And shared various examples of unexpected customs-related risk, talked about sources of the risk and its management.
Customs Practitioners Association
The most unexpected customs risk that businesses faced
Is it possible for the business to consider all the possible customs-related risks? The answer to the poll question was unambiguous. All participants of the 8th Authors' Meeting on 21.10.2021 said… NO! And shared various examples of unexpected customs-related risk, talked about sources of the risk and its management.
Customs Practitioners Association
Why is it important to control wood packaging material?
We often do not even think that the wood packaging material (WPM) used in trade to support, strengthen, and transport any production can pose any threat. However, there is a huge threat. Pests … can spread with WPM. These harmful organisms do not choose - parks, private gardens, private yards with cultivated vegetation, or forest. Once in the country and under the right conditions, pests spread very quickly, and it is extremely difficult to eradicate them. The fight against already existing pests causes severe economic, emotional damage by cutting down and destroying all trees that are infected, regardless of where they grow and the value they have.
Vilma Mikelaitienė
Why is it important to control wood packaging material?
We often do not even think that the wood packaging material (WPM) used in trade to support, strengthen, and transport any production can pose any threat. However, there is a huge threat. Pests can spread with WPM. These harmful organisms do not choose - parks, private gardens, private yards with cultivated vegetation, or forest. Once in the country and under the right conditions, pests spread very quickly, and it is extremely difficult to eradicate them. The fight against already existing pests causes severe economic, emotional damage by cutting down and destroying all trees that are infected, regardless of where they grow and the value they have.
Vilma Mikelaitienė