Digital Customs Compliance | Helping Traders Keep Trading

Is your trading and customs compliance ready for the digital age?

How companies trade around the world has been transformed by digital customs and technology, including border controls and trading compliance systems to customs declarations and bills of lading. 

This advancement presents benefits and opportunities for businesses.

Technology allows trade to move faster, break down barriers, and reduce costs. Digitised records become easier to access while being safe and secure in the cloud.

After five years of preparation, The Customs Declaration Service (CDS) will be the long-term replacement for the current CHIEF (Customs Handling Imports and Export Freight) platform - replacing a system based on 30-year-old technology with a platform fit for the digital age. 

Trading businesses must make Import clearances using CDS after 30th September 2022, and Exports switch over in March 2023. Companies (like yours) need to be ready for the additional data that your customs intermediaries will need.

ChamberCustoms can support your transition to CDS and provide free customs clearance software, bringing your company the following benefits:

• Embracing CDS will save time and help avoid problems later (lacking data evidence costs firms dearly in VAT reclaims and fines)

• Speed - removing manual input and any potential errors increases efficiency while connecting directly to HMRC, and all port inventory systems around the UK provide faster goods release.

• Using innovative technology allows companies to create a single source of truth between an existing enterprise solution such as SAP and what has been declared to the customs authority by an intermediary like ChamberCustoms. 

Are you ready to make the transition?

Speak to the friendly, expert customs agents at ChamberCustoms today:

ChamberCustoms can bring your customs clearance and compliance into the digital age

The problems our digital transition will fix:

• No more frantic searching for evidence of exports, proof of origin and bills of lading

• No more exchanging emails, downloading documents and risking a manual error

• No more waiting on customs clearance; unsure if it has been granted

• No longer will multiple custom documents with multiple commodity codes be tricky to execute at speed

• And no longer will mistakes happen when claiming duty-free imports due to confusion about which trade agreement should apply.

Our customers remain in control of the declarations made on their behalf. They upload their existing data to our platform, and intelligent technology puts it into the correct data fields in the HMRC system. 

Should historical problems occur or HMRC instigate an investigation, all the evidence to deal with these challenges is ready and at hand, no matter how far back HMRC might want to dig.

At ChamberCustoms, we have built a digital solution for international trade that any UK-registered company can take advantage of, and it’s simple and cost-effective.