Introduction Importing a Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) vehicle into Great Britain is absolutely achievable when you approach it as a single, joined-up process. You will prepare a compliant customs declaration, determine whether you can lawfully claim preferential duty under the UK–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), calculate duty and VAT on a correct customs value, [...]
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Introduction Importing a passenger car from Germany to the United Kingdom can offer real value—access to wider specifications, better pricing, and rare models—provided the import is managed with the same precision you would apply to a regulated financial transaction. Since the UK’s exit from the EU, Germany-to-GB movements are now international imports governed by customs [...]
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Introduction UK Freeports are designed to catalyse trade, investment, and jobs by combining two powerful bundles of incentives within mapped areas: (1) tax reliefs inside designated Freeport special tax sites and (2) customs and excise facilitations inside designated Freeport customs sites (also called “free zones”). The two site types can be co-located, and businesses may [...]
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Introduction Handcrafted goods—textiles, ceramics, carved wood, metalwork, baskets, jewellery, decorative glass, and artisan homeware—enjoy resilient demand in the United Kingdom. Their appeal lies in cultural provenance, design authenticity, and sustainable narratives that mass production rarely matches. Bringing handicrafts to market, however, requires diligence across three domains: accurate tariff classification and origin treatment; precise computation of [...]
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Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a peripheral technology in international commerce; it is becoming the connective tissue that ties together supply chains, services trade, border processes, and market access. The World Trade Report 2025 positions AI as a general-purpose technology with economy-wide spillovers that can amplify trade-led growth—provided governments and firms invest in [...]
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The United Kingdom’s market for wines and specialty beverages—ranging from estate-bottled Bordeaux and premium sparkling wines to craft beers, ciders, meads, sakes, and small-batch spirits—remains resilient and discerning. Turning that demand into sustainable margin requires clear mastery of three pillars: accurate commodity classification and origin treatment; precise computation of customs duty, alcohol duty, and import [...]
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Introduction From heritage leather goods and handcrafted jewellery to scarves, belts, hats, sunglasses, and tech-enabled wearables, the United Kingdom’s fashion-accessories sector enjoys strong international demand. Turning that demand into dependable revenue requires more than design excellence. Exporters must synchronise three disciplines: product-compliance (materials, labelling, market notifications), logistics integrity (dangerous-goods and packaging controls), and precise border [...]
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Introduction From designer sofas and handcrafted tables to lighting, textiles, glassware and ceramics, furniture and home goods arrive in the United Kingdom under close fiscal and regulatory scrutiny. To move consignments efficiently you must build a coherent pathway that starts with accurate classification and origin, continues through duty and VAT calculations, and culminates in an [...]
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