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Field | Notes / Explanation |
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Description | This can hold the full customs description of the commodity. Press the binoculars button to the right side to retrieve this automatically from HMRC. |
Short Screen Description | Enter an abbreviated version of the longer description field, this takes precedence on most screens where this is displayed although the complete description is usually also displayed. |
Category Code | see next section https://visionsoftware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VW/pages/667418787/Maintenance+Group#Commodity-Categories |
Bulk Commodity | Used in manufacturing processes, when the warehouse is permitted to use the bulk commodity code for payment of customs duty for the bottled stocks. Can only be used by the original owner. |
No of Products | Not currently in use |
ECU Indicator | This is a legacy field relating to Agriculture and Industrial rates, this is no longer used |
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Above we can see that in order to claim the preference for imports from the EU then document code U112 is required but we are defaulting the ID & status code to EU-DOC and JP per HMRC’s requirements Claiming preferential rates of duty between the UK and EU. However if claiming a preference from any non-EU country then N954 is required and the users will need to enter the document ID and status code because they haven’t defaulted here. We can also see that a VI1 is required for imports from all countries, and that C644 (Organic certificate) number & status is required, but for this one users have the ability to use ‘NA’ which will instead store Y929 to signify that the product is not organic or excluded from the regulation. This information can all be found here: https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/2204101100#import by viewing the ‘Conditions’.
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