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Customs Clearance
Advance Baggage - Customs Clearance provides the best, quickest, safest and most reasonable Customs Clearance service in UK.

Customs Clearance

What is Customs Clearance?
Goods received to the UK from overseas for personal use are checked by customs representatives for any forbidden or restricted goods. In addition, the Customs Declaration on goods arriving from outside the European Union (EU) is checked to work out how much tax and/or duty is payable.

Customs transit options when moving goods across the EU
All goods moved within the EU have a customs status of either Community or non-Community.

Community transit (CT) is a customs procedure used to facilitate the movement of non-Community status goods between 2 points in the customs territory of the EU. Common transit extends CT to include the EFTA countries of Switzerland (and Liechtenstein), Norway and Iceland. Turkey, although not an EFTA country, also uses the Common transit procedure. Customs duties and other charges are suspended on non-Community status goods whilst they are under a customs transit procedure (T1 Status). Movements of Community status goods to the EFTA countries travel under Common transit (T2 Status).

Community goods:
  • originate in the EU or have been imported from outside the EU and released for free circulation - ie all import formalities have been completed and duties and other charges paid

  • don't need to move under customs control within the territory of the EU; however, where Community goods go via a third country proof of Community status is required - this proof can be provided by a Community status (T2L) declaration made on a Single Administrative Document (SAD) - see the section later in this guidance


  • Non-Community goods are goods not in free circulation in the EU. Such goods can be moved between two points in the EU using a transit procedure. You should use:
  • Community Transit to move goods that are not in free circulation in the EU - ie Non-Community goods in and between EU member states or to and from Andorra, San Marino and the 'special territories' of the EU, such as the Channel Islands; there are three distinct categories for this procedure

  • Common Transit to move goods across the EU to, between or via the Common transit countries. These are the EFTA countries (ie Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) and Turkey; this procedure is very similar to Community Transit

  • Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR) ie International Road Transport only for the movement of goods by road in secure/approved vehicles or containers and under cover of a TIR Carnet - TIR movements can only be between two contracting parties to the TIR Convention ie between the EU and a third country or two third countries via the EU