Forms for import and export

Contents

1. Guarantee, payment and deferment forms for imports and exports
2. Import and export authorisation and approval forms
3. Clearance of goods forms
4. Declaration forms for imports and exports
5. CHIEF forms
6. Customs Declaration Service forms and guidance
7. Customs freight simplified procedures information papers

Guarantee, payment and deferment forms for imports and exports

Use these forms for payments, repayments, guarantees and deferments to and from HMRC.

• Apply to defer payment of excise duties (C1200)
  • 23 June 2025
  • Form
• Guarantee deferment of payment to HMRC (C1201)
  • 2 March 2021
  • Form
• Notice of amendment to form C1201 – deferment guarantee (C1201A)
  • 30 April 2015
  • Form
• Amend a C1201 TAPS deferment guarantee (C1201A TAPS)
  • 21 December 2014
  • Form
• Guarantee payments for hydrocarbon oils duty payments (C1201HO)
  • 4 July 2014
  • Form
• Provide a payment guarantee for the Excise Payment Security System (C1201 TAPS)
  • 12 August 2014
  • Form
• Give Joint Contractual Liability (JCL) for a Customs Comprehensive Guarantee for potential debts
  • 26 January 2023
  • Form
• VAT: deferment schedule – Simplified Import VAT Accounting reduced security (SIVA2)
  • 31 December 2020
  • Form

Import and export authorisation and approval forms

Use these forms to request authorisations and approvals from HMRC for importing and exporting.

• Apply for Customs Supervised Exports Approval (C&E 48 CSE)
  • 9 July 2024
  • Form
• Notify HMRC of changes that affect your Authorised Economic Operator status
  • 24 September 2018
  • Form

Clearance of goods forms

Use these forms to request clearance of goods being imported to or exported from the UK.

• Submit a notice of arrival of certain classes of goods (C27)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Apply to remove goods from a transit shed (C130)
  • 1 April 2022
  • Form
• Permission to progress shipment of goods after export (C130EX)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Record your aicraft cargo (C257)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Apply for release of a private vessel on payment of Customs Duty and VAT
  • 12 July 2024
  • Form
• Make a summary declaration of goods arriving from non-UK countries (C1600)
  • 31 December 2020
  • Form
• Presentation of goods (C1600A)
  • 31 December 2020
  • Form

Declaration forms for imports and exports

Use these forms to declare goods entering or leaving the UK.

• Change or cancel a Simplified Frontier Declaration
  • 22 February 2024
  • Form
• Request partial entry print of import and export data
  • 23 November 2011
  • Form
• Tell HMRC about the temporary arrival of a non-UK private motor vehicle for personal use (C110)
  • 31 December 2020
  • Form
• General declaration for inward or outward flights (C155)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Declare re-importation of a private motor vehicle from outside the UK (C179B)
  • 22 July 2025
  • Guidance
• Declare any weapons on board an aircraft (C913)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Customs declaration for passengers leaving the UK (C1336)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Amend import or export licence declarations (C1700)
  • 18 December 2023
  • Form
• Record a certificate of posting of goods (C&E132)
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Declare Returned Goods Relief when using duplicate lists (C&E1246)
  • 31 December 2020
  • Form

CHIEF forms

Use these forms to complete a manual Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) declaration.

• Request entry or clearance during CHIEF or CDS downtime
  • 3 August 2021
  • Form
• Record CHIEF entries you changed or cleared before a system failure (C1403 (F))
  • 4 April 2014
  • Form
• Ask for access to CHIEF through WEX channels (PA7)
  • 14 January 2021
  • Form

Customs Declaration Service forms and guidance

HMRC is introducing Customs Declaration Service (CDS) gradually.

Find out how to prepare for the Customs Declaration Service.

• Request entry or clearance during CHIEF or CDS downtime
  • 3 August 2021
  • Form
• Get your import VAT and duty adjustment statements
  • 13 September 2019
  • Guidance
• Get copies of your duty deferment statements
  • 12 August 2024
  • Guidance
• Get your import VAT certificate (C79)
  • 19 May 2026
  • Guidance
• Manage your email address for the Customs Declaration Service
  • 1 December 2023
  • Guidance

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Customs freight simplified procedures information papers

You can find customs freight simplified procedures (CFSP) information papers published before 1 January 2017 on the National Archives website.

Find CFSP information papers published from 1 January 2017 below.

• Importation of goods from North Korea (CFSP information paper 1)
  • 20 June 2017
  • Guidance

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