Kraken Business

International trade

Starting out in international trade

  • Exporting – an overview
  • Are you ready to import?
  • Preparing to export
  • Use design to improve your export potential
  • Importing and exporting by post
  • Distance selling and online trading
  • International Trade Fast Parcel Operators

Importing and exporting basics

  • Licensing and paperwork
  • Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) Scheme
  • Managing risks of importing and exporting
  • Overseas supplier relationships

Getting paid when trading internationally

Licensing and paperwork

Doing business in the EU

  • Doing business in another language
  • Trading in the European Union
  • Free movement of goods across the EEA and resolving issues
  • Dispatching your goods within the EU
  • Getting ready to export to individual countries
  • Locate your business in the UK

Trading with countries outside the EU

  • Exporting your goods from the EU to a third country
  • Importing your goods from outside the European Union
  • Getting ready to export to individual countries
  • Trade agreements
  • Anti-dumping and countervailing duties
  • Exporting military goods to the United States

Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs)

Service industries

  • Building, construction and property services
  • Creative industries
  • Life Sciences – healthcare and medical
  • Recreation and leisure goods and services
  • Transport, transport infrastructure and services
  • International trade in services
  • Better regulation

Manufactured goods

  • Aerospace and defence
  • Automotive
  • Life Sciences – biotechnology and pharmaceuticals
  • Life Sciences – healthcare and medical
  • Chemicals
  • Clothing, footwear and fashion
  • Electronics
  • Giftware, jewellery and tableware
  • Household goods, furniture and furnishings
  • Offensive weapons and stopping imports of illegal weapons
  • Paper and printing
  • Telecoms, radiocomms and broadcasting equipment
  • Textiles, interior textiles and carpets
  • Importing and exporting waste

Food and agriculture

  • Trading in live animals and animal products
  • Trading in food and agriculture
  • Trading in plants
  • Trading in CAP goods

Natural resources and chemicals

  • Chemicals
  • Energy and power projects and services
  • Metals and minerals
  • Oil, gas, refining and petrochemicals
  • Importing solid ammonium nitrate in consignments of 500 kilograms or more
  • Importing and exporting waste

Import and export procedures

  • Import procedures
  • Export procedures
  • Transit systems and procedures
  • Duty relief procedures

Customs declarations

  • Using and submitting Supplementary Declarations
  • Supplementary Declarations for import
  • Supplementary Declarations for export
  • National Clearance Hub
  • Declarations and the Single Administrative Document
  • Archiving your trade documents
  • Temporary storage

Intrastat returns

  • Introduction to Intrastat
  • Intrastat – reporting the value and volume of intra-EU trade
  • How to complete your Intrastat Supplementary Declaration
  • Intrastat – step by step process
  • Intrastat – technology and technicalities
  • Intrastat – receipt of letter
  • Intrastat Services
  • Supplementary Declarations for Intrastat

Classifying your goods

  • Classification rules and using the tariff
  • Classifying specific goods

Customs IT systems

  • UK’s import and export processing system CHIEF
  • Using the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) to move goods across the EU and EFTA countries
  • Export declarations and the National Export System
  • Import Control System
  • Intrastat – technology and technicalities
  • How to use the UK Trade Tariff

Export Control Organisation

  • Strategic export control training for exporters
  • Export Control A to Z
  • Beginners’ guide to export controls
  • About the Export Control Organisation
  • UK Strategic Export Control Lists – the consolidated list of strategic military and Dual-Use items
  • How to determine if your goods need an export licence
  • End-Use Controls
  • Sanctions, embargoes and restrictions
  • Current export restrictions by country
  • Types of export licence
  • Export control licensing process and how to appeal
  • End-User and Stockist Undertakings for SIELs and Consignee Undertaking for OIELs
  • Assessment of Export Licence applications – Criteria and Policy
  • Key licensing guidance
  • Trade controls (trafficking and brokering)
  • Common Pitfalls to avoid in Export Licence Applications
  • Frequently asked questions on export licensing  
  • Compliance and enforcement of export controls
  • Overview of export control legislation
  • Current UK strategic export control legislation
  • Export Control Act 2002
  • Export Control Order 2008
  • Controls on Dual-Use Goods (EU Dual-Use Regulation)
  • Controls on Radioactive Sources
  • Controls on Torture Goods
  • Directive 2009/43/EC (Intra-Community Transfer Directive concerning defence goods)
  • Do you need an export or import licence?

Importing controlled goods

  • Importing solid ammonium nitrate in consignments of 500 kilograms or more
  • Importing animal furs, skins and fish
  • Offensive weapons and stopping imports of illegal weapons
  • Importing and exporting waste

Preparing your goods for transport

  • Moving your goods
  • Transport document completion
  • International transport and distribution
  • Transport insurance
  • Loading goods for dispatch to the EU from the UK
  • How to label and package goods being shipped out of the UK
  • Food labelling and packaging in international trade
  • Wood packaging

Transport options for moving your goods

  • Moving goods by road
  • Moving goods by sea
  • Moving goods by air
  • Moving goods by rail

Taking lorries abroad

  • Taking your lorry or bus abroad
  • The essentials of international road haulage
  • International authorisations and permits for road haulage
  • Vehicle documents required for international road haulage
  • Driver documents required for international road haulage
  • Customs procedures when transporting goods by road

Transporting dangerous goods

  • Moving dangerous goods
  • Driving dangerous goods and special loads abroad

Freight forwarding

Tax obligations

  • Understand your tax obligations when importing or exporting
  • How to value your imports for customs duty and trade statistics
  • Customs warehousing
  • Customs seizures and penalties

Excise and VAT

  • VAT in international trade

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