Dev2021

MSC and maersk line announce end of vessel-sharing agreement

The CEOs of 2M Alliance partners MSC and Maersk Line announced today that their vessel-sharing agreement will end in 2025. Vincent Clerc and Soren Toft state that the decision was by mutual agreement. A statement said: “MSC and Maersk recognise that much has changed since the two companies signed the 10-year agreement in 2015. Discontinuing the …

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EMCS downtime – Thursday 2nd February

Due to essential maintenance, the Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) will not be available between the hours of 18:00 and 20:50. For any consignments due for dispatch during this planned downtime, please submit the EAD movement to EMCS in advance where possible.

1 CDS 3.9.0 Update

The major CDS 3.9.0 release will take place between 21.30 on Saturday 14 January and 04.00 on Sunday 15 January. During this period of planned downtime, you will be unable to use CDS and we would urge you to avoid making declarations if possible. during this time. CDS 3.9.0 HMRC has advised that, from Sunday …

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Freeport Updates

 Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Freeport East have received the green light from government to begin operations, meaning most of the eight proposed freeports are now open for business. They follow Plymouth, Solent and Teesside freeports in receiving final government approval.

HMRC guidance updated to permit Vietnam to continue to trade on GSP and UK-Vietnam FTA

In December 2020, the UK Implemented a new preferential trade agreement with Vietnam. The original guidance from HMRC stated that GSP will not apply to Vietnam from the 1st of January 2023, this has now been revised. During the transition period, Vietnam has been permitted to trade on both the terms of the UK – Vietnam …

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Notice to Exporters update 2022/25

This communication referenced 26 x OGELs that previously withdrew Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners as acceptable destinations due to their involvement in the Yemen war, highlighting the fact that the parallel licences which were created for new OGEL registrations (excluding the withdrawn destinations) were to be revoked on December 30th, 2022. The Export Control …

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CDS VAT Issue

On 30th December 2022 there was an issue with CDS declarations where VAT charges had been duplicated, this also duplicated excise duty. A fix has been implemented and CDS declarations can be submitted as normal. If you use a Duty Deferment Account for VAT or Excise payments, and have duplicate charges as a result of …

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