Goods entering and leaving the UK are detained? Foreign customs may not release the Spring Festival...

The UK has been in a lot of trouble recently. First, the Brexit agreement was rejected, and then Prime Minister Theresa May was almost impeached. The entire British Kingdom is like a boat swaying in a rainstorm. For the latest Brexit situation, you can click the link below to view our previous articles.

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In such an environment, sellers on the UK site are naturally on high alert, paying attention to possible situations at any time. However, despite all their calculations, unexpected events still happen to UK sellers.

Some sellers reported in our communication group that their goods on the UK site were recently detained.

British Customs once seized a large number of sellers’ goods due to tax number issues. Now that almost every seller on the UK site has a tax number, why are goods still being seized?

After the little clone collected information from all parties, I will give you a definite answer. This large-scale seizure of goods was due to under-declaration.

The well-known freight forwarding services that include double clearance and tax often use low declaration, because taxes are included in the quotation given to the seller. Therefore, as long as the tax can be low-declared or even tax-free, the savings can be the freight forwarder's profit.

The leader of this crackdown is still the British agency HMRC that we sellers are familiar with. The last time everyone heard about this department was when HMRC bypassed Amazon and contacted buyers directly to ask them to upload their tax numbers. This is enough to show how terrifying the tax department is when it takes action.

In order to not let go of any sellers who under-declare or whose HS codes do not match, HMRC claims that it will set up a dedicated department and bring in several external professional inspection teams with more than ten years of experience, who are familiar with both the actual value of the goods and the HS code classification. They can sort out the under-declared goods and the goods that attempt to pass through customs with low tax rate codes in minutes.

Under-declared shipments detected

Not only are the most elite personnel used, but the policies are also not relaxed at all. If a batch of goods is found to be under-declared, then all goods under the VAT to which this batch of goods belongs will be detained !

Many countries have punished under-declaration, but this is the first time that such a large force has been taken. This is also related to the UK's upcoming Brexit (there is a high probability of a no-deal Brexit). Sellers on the UK site should keep a close eye on their logistics channels and make sure to declare customs truthfully!

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