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Daniel Lambert (Wines). 🇪🇺🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍇🥂

18 Jun, 7 tweets, 2 min read

A few weeks ago we sent our first export via our own customs declaration process. We thought we should try as we had everything in place since January but had not actually used the system. Wow we were wrong and its another level of utter crap.

So we have got just about imports sorted and have every type of import on a template now. That taken the best part of six months and still the system doesn’t run smoothly, and there is an issue with nearly every import. However exports…

So after doing our first import we got a P9 notice last week. This was to advise the export has not been cleared off the Chief system. Fair enough we thought. We shall clear it down. But this where the games start.

We then tried to clear the export but discovered we didn’t lave a “loader badge”. Yes a loader badge. So to move stock in and out of the country you need badges. We have a RoRo badge of imports & Exports. We got this last year when we explained to HMRC how we operated.

However at no point did anyone mention a loader badge. Since getting the notice I have spoken to a number of customs brokers and my Local HMRC officials and none of them had ever heard of this either!!!

So yet again we have wasted hours of time trying to find out about something that is really obscure that many in HMRC it’s self have never heard of. Simple question. Why on earth does the government have to make something simple so complicated. Oh the destination was Jersey BTW!

Finally that export badge we have isn’t and export badge unless you get the additional export badge to make it an export badge. Then you can export without getting pissy emails from HMRC about your exports. FFS! 🤦🤬

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