Customs Glossary
Confused by the import-export jargon? Our glossary provides a short explanation of all the customs terms to help you navigate global trade.
- Animal By-Products (ABPs)
- Authorised Economic Operator (AEO)
- Border Control Point (BCP)
- C21
- C88
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Carrier
- Cash Account
- CITES
- Commodity Code
- Common Health Entry Document (CHED)
- Common Transit Convention (CTC)
- Common User Charge (CUC)
- Community Service Provider (CSP)
- Controlled Goods
- CPTPP
- Cumulation
- Customs Declaration Service (CDS)
- Customs Duty?
- Customs Duty Waiver Scheme (NIAID)
- Customs Handling of Import Export Freight (CHIEF)
- Customs Procedure Code (CPC)
- Delivered at Place (DAP)
- Delivered at Place Unloaded (DPU)
- Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)
- Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Digital Trade Corridors (DTC)
- Direct Representation
- Duty Deferment Account (DDA)
- Ecosystem of Trust (EOT)
- Entry In Declarant Records (EIDR)
- EORI Number
- EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
- Exit Summary Declaration (EXS)
- Export Accompanying Document (EAD)
- Export Health Certificate (EHC)
- Ex-Works (EXW)
- Freeports
- Free Carrier (FCA)
- Freight Forwarders?
- Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
- Goods Movement Reference (GMR) and the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS)
- High Risk Food Not of Animal Origin (HRFNAO)
- Import Control System (ICS)
- Importer's Knowledge
- Indirect Representation
- Local Reference Number (LRN)
- Most Favoured Nation (MFN)
- Movement Reference Number (MRN)
- New Computerised Transit System (NCTS)
- Phytosanitary Certificates
- Port Badges
- Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA)
- Products of Animal Origin (POAO)
- Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)
- REX statement
- Revenue Trader Account Number (TSN)
- The Animal Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- The Border Target Operating Model (BTOM)
- The Food Standard Agency (FSA)
- TRACES NT
- Transit Accompanying Document (TAD)
- Transit Guarantee
- UK Border Force (UKBF)
- World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- What is GSP?
- What is a HS code?
- What is IBF?
- What is an ENS (Entry Summary Declaration)?
- What is ICS2?
- What is iDTC?
- What is ILP?
- What are Incoterms Rules?
- What is Intrastat?
- What are IPAFFS?
- What is IUU?
- What is a LSP?
- What is MoU?
- What is Motis FSA?
- What is NCTS5?
- What is NIMAR?
- What is NIRMS?
- What is Operation BROCK?
- What is OTT?
- What are P&R Codes?
- What is PBN?
- What is PEM?
- What is PortBase?
- What does preference/Preferential mean?
- What is Regime 42?
- What is RGR?
- What is a Risk Category?
- What is the SAFE Framework?
- What is SCDP?
- What is a SFD?
- what is a SD?
- What is a SDP?
- What are Smart Borders?
- What are Smart Borders 2.0?
- What is STEPS?
- What is STS?
- What is STOP24?
- What is STW?
- What is a TCA?
- What is a TGP?
- What is the WF?
- What is the WCO?
- What is VIES?
- What is VAT?
- What is UKIMS?
- What is TSF?
- What is the Cabinet Office (CO) ?
- What is the EU?
- What is excise?
- What is HMRC?
- What is intermediary?
- What is Inventory Release?
- What is MRA?
- What is PHILIS?
- What is SCV?
- What is SPS?
- What is SSD?
- what is a Tariff?
- What is TFA?
- What is the TLIP?
- What are Traders?
- What is a Transit?
- What is a Trusted Trader?
- What is TTL?
- What is TTP?
- What is the UKBF?
- What is an import declaration?
- What is a export declaration?
- What is Centralised Clearance for Import (CCI)?
- What is comparative advantage?
- What is Regulation on Deforestation-free Products
- What is a Consignment?
- What is a 'Seal'?
- What are 'Package marks'?
- Who is the Importer?
- What is a commercial reference number?
- What is meant by an 'Accompanied' status?
- What is meant by a 'Unaccompanied' status?
- What is IMO?
- What is a 'Shipment'?
- What is a 'Consignee'?
- What is a 'Validation Message'?
- What is a 'CABIE Frontier MRN'?
- What is NIPHL?
- How to 'Allow Cookies'
- What is ENS?