EU Exit: Support for your business
The UK has left the EU. Find information and support to help your business manage the changes.
Business support
Find out how to access the support that has been made available to NI businesses - who is eligible and how to apply
- EU exit: Find out what financial and advisory support you can get for your business
- Overview of quick links to information and contacts that may help to assist with your queries
Guidance: Most recent
Access the latest guidance available, including new rules that apply to local businesses:
Week beginning 17 January
Week beginning 10 January
- Export horses and ponies: special rules (updated)
- Making an export supplementary declaration (updated)
- Apply to use simplified declarations for imports (updated)
- Making an import supplementary declaration (updated)
- Making an import declaration in your records (updated)
- Using the UKNI marking from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 3 January
- Export food, drink and agricultural products (updated)
- Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland (updated)
- Export horses and ponies: special rules (updated)
- Export or move livestock and poultry from GB to Northern Ireland (updated)
- Export or move composite food products (updated)
- Claiming preferential rates of duty between the UK and EU from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Get proof of origin for your goods (updated)
- Making a full export declaration (updated)
- Get a goods movement reference (updated)
Week beginning 27 December
- ECMT international road haulage permits (updated)
- Pay less import duty and VAT when re-importing goods to the UK (updated)
- Making a simplified frontier declaration (updated)
- Making a full import declaration (updated)
- Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol (updated)
- Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
Week beginning 20 December
- Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS) (updated)
- Import composite products from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain (updated)
- Importing or moving fish to the UK (updated)
- Import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain (updated)
- Import animal by-products and high-risk food and feed not of animal origin from the EU to Great Britain (updated)
Week beginning 13 December
- Using Animal Health Regulation Export Health Certificates from 15 January 2022
- Importing or moving live animals, germinal products, animal by-products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin (updated)
- Border Controls – ROI & NI goods movements to Great Britain
- Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return (updated)
- Attending an inland border facility (updated)
- EU Exit: Get a goods movement reference (updated)
- EU Exit: Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
- Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 22 November
Week beginning 15 November
- Import or move composite products from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain (updated)
- Sales of second-hand motor vehicles in Northern Ireland (updated)
- Check how to pay duties and VAT on imports
Week beginning 1 November
- Importing and exporting organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Sending parcels to and from Northern Ireland (updated)
- Declaring goods you bring into Northern Ireland ‘not at risk’ of moving to the EU (updated)
- Find out when to make an exit summary declaration (updated)
Week beginning 25 October
- Defra webinars on the EU to GB import requirements from January 2022
- EU Exit: Register for the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
- Duty suspensions and tariff quotas (updated)
- Moving goods temporarily into and out of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (updated)
- EU Exit: Get a goods movement reference (updated)
- Changes to Intrastat from 1 January 2022
- Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 18 October
- Claiming tariff quotas to reduce import duties
- Moving excise goods as freight under the Northern Ireland Protocol from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting wine from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 11 October
Week beginning 4 October
Week beginning 27 September
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Support attestations: get reimbursed to move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland
- Standard Contractual Clauses (SSCs) for data transfer (updated)
- Intellectual property after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Changes to international trade mark registrations after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- EU e-commerce package - new VAT rules from 1 July 2021 (updated)
- Making a simplified frontier declaration (updated)
Week beginning 13 September
- Bringing commercial goods into Northern Ireland in your baggage (updated)
- Making an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check if you need to make an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Exporting or moving fish from the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Apply for authorisation for the UK Trader Scheme if you bring goods into Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving goods into or through Northern Ireland using common or union transit
- Moving goods out of Northern Ireland through common transit countries
- Preparing to move goods out of the UK through common transit countries
- Preparing to move goods into the UK through common transit countries
- Hops and hops products marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Poultry meat marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 6 September
- Exporting or moving high risk food and feed of non-animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting plants and plant products (updated)
- Importing and exporting wine from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 30 August
Week beginning 23 August
- Using the UKCA mark from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Placing manufactured goods on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- 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)
- Import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain (updated)
- Find software developers providing entry summary declaration support (updated)
Week beginning 16 August
Week beginning 9 August
- Find out when to make an exit summary declaration (updated)
- Apply for a Binding Origin Information decision (updated)
- Using your mobile in EU and EEA countries (updated)
Week beginning 2 August
- Declaring goods you bring into Northern Ireland 'not at risk' of moving to the EU (updated)
- Tariffs on goods imported into the UK
- Trade Tariff: look up commodity codes, duty and VAT rates
- Check if you need to pay a tariff on goods brought into Northern Ireland from Great Britain (updated)
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)