EU Exit: Support for your business
The UK has left the EU. Find information and support to help your business manage the changes.
NOTE: If helplines and online services offering assistance with your enquiries are busy, we advise that you review online guidance in the first instance. Find an overview of quick links to information and contacts that may help to assist with your queries.
Business support
Find out how to access the support that has been made available to NI businesses - who is eligible and how to apply
Guidance: Most recent
Access the latest guidance available, including new rules that will apply to local businesses:
Week beginning 15 June
- Take goods temporarily out of the UK (updated)
- Overview: Selling services to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Republic of Ireland: providing services from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Claim VAT refunds in Northern Ireland or the EU, if you're established in Northern Ireland or in the EU (updated)
- Import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain
- Placing certain products on the Northern Ireland market
- Importing or moving live animals, germinal products, animal by-products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 7 June
- EU Exit: Changes to right to work checks from 1 July 2021
- Get an export health certificate (updated)
- Exporting or moving fish from the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export food, drink and agricultural products (updated)
- Moving goods temporarily into and out of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Apply to import goods temporarily to the UK
Week beginning 31 May
- Trade with Mexico
- Placing manufactured goods on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using the UKCA mark from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) and the Northern Ireland Protocol from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 24 May
- EU Settlement Scheme: Helping workers apply to stay in Northern Ireland after 30 June 2021 (updated)
- Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit (updated)
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Import or move composite products from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain
Week beginning 17 May
- EU Exit: Apply to operate a customs warehouse (updated)
- Making a full import declaration (updated)
- Apply for a Binding Tariff Information decision (updated)
- EU Exit: Get access to the Customs Declaration Service (updated)
- Duty suspensions and tariff quotas (updated)
- Apply to use simplified declarations for exports
- Bringing commercial goods into Northern Ireland in your baggage (updated)
- Taking commercial goods out of Northern Ireland in your baggage (updated)
Week beginning 10 May
- Business travel to Europe (updated)
- Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 26 April
Week beginning 19 April
- Sign up for the Trader Support Service to move goods into and out Northern Ireland (updated)
- Declaring goods you bring into Northern Ireland 'not at risk' of moving to the EU (updated)
- Export or move composite food products after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Apply for authorisation for the UK Trader Scheme if you bring goods into Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 5 April
- SME Brexit Support Fund: Grants to help businesses new to importing or exporting (updated)
- Exporting or moving high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 29 March
- Export horses and ponies: special rules (updated)
- Export or move livestock and poultry from GB to Northern Ireland (updated)
- Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Apply for an ATA Carnet (updated)
- Export or move composite food products after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving goods to Northern Ireland from Great Britain: Actions for businesses in GB
Week beginning 22 March
- Hops and hops products marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting wine from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Making a full export declaration (updated)
- Find out when to make an exit summary declaration (updated)
- Bringing live animals to NI from EU via the GB landbridge
- Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks: live animals transiting the GB landbridge
- Importing or moving fish to the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Starting and ending transit movements in Northern Ireland using common and Union transit (updated)
- Appeal against decisions on UK protected geographical food and drink names (updated)
Week beginning 15 March
- Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland (updated)
- Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return (updated)
- Check if you need to make an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Making an import declaration in your records (updated)
- Making an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Registering and renewing .eu domain names in the UK after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- SME Brexit Support Fund: Grants to help businesses new to importing or exporting
Week beginning 8 March
- Importing or moving live animals, animal products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export or move animal bones, protein and other by-products from GB to Northern Irelan (updated)
- Address for service for intellectual property rights from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using personal data in your business or other organisation from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 1 March
- Trading CITES-listed specimens through UK ports and airport (updated)
- Moving F gas between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Sending parcels between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021
- Poultry meat marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check if you need a customs guarantee (updated)
- Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
- Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK (updated)
- Get proof of origin for your goods (updated)
Week beginning 22 February
Week beginning 15 February
- Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
- Get a goods movement reference (updated)
- Claim VAT refunds in Northern Ireland or the EU, if you're established in Northern Ireland or in the EU
- New documentation requirements for traders moving permitted chilled meats from GB to NI
- Importing prohibited and restricted chilled meat products to NI from GB
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check if a goods movement reference is valid (updated)
- Register for the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
- Check a job applicant's entitlement to work in the UK (updated)
- Recruiting people from outside the UK
- Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Grants to help small and medium-sized businesses new to importing or exporting
Week beginning 8 February
- Using the UKNI marking from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using the UKCA mark from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- EURid's update on UK-owned .eu domain names
- EU Exit: Seafood Disruption Support Scheme now open
- EU Exit: Seasonal Workers Pilot
- Importing and exporting plants and plant products
Week beginning 1 February
- EU to Northern Ireland trade - EU sources of support and guidance
- Moving fishery products or bivalve molluscs from Great Britain and non EU countries into Northern Ireland
- EU exit - local trade advice and support organisations
Guidance: By business topic
Find current information available:
- EU exit and trade
- EU exit and taxes
- EU exit and employers
- EU exit and transport
- EU exit and innovation and R&D
- EU exit and sales and marketing
- EU exit and IT
- EU exit and efficiency and the environment
- EU exit and food & drink
- EU exit and manufacturing
- EU exit and retail