EU-UK trade: How to claim "zero duty"?

Muita UAB
Muita UAB
Customs brokerage company, Lithuania
Published 29 Oct 2021

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As a customs brokerage company, we receive such questions: Why we had to pay import duties? Isn’t there an agreement on zero duties between the EU and the UK? We learned that there must be certain text included in the invoice to claim zero duty. Is it indeed so simple?...

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