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 18 October
- Export or move composite food products after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- 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
- Check your goods meet the rules of origin (updated)
- Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland (updated)
- Find out when to make an exit summary declaration (updated)
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)
- Importing or moving fish to the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting organic food 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)
- Import or move composite products from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain (updated)
- Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS)
- 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)
- Sending parcels to and from Northern Ireland (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)
- Export food, drink and agricultural products from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export horses and ponies: special rules (updated)
- Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain 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)
- Duty suspensions and tariff quotas (updated)
- Declaring goods you bring into Northern Ireland ‘not at risk’ of moving to the EU (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)
Week beginning 26 July
- 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)
Week beginning 19 July
Week beginning 5 July
- Right to work checks: Employing EU, EEA and Swiss citizens
- Making an indirect export from Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 28 June
- Export food, drink and agricultural products (updated)
- Moving your goods to common or EU transit countries (updated)
- Check if you can use transit to move goods to the EU and common transit countries (updated)
- Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK (updated)
- Check how to report and pay VAT on distance sales of goods from Northern Ireland to the EU
- Tell HMRC you’re registered for the VAT Import One Stop Shop in the EU
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using personal data in your business or other organisation from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing prohibited and restricted chilled meat products to NI from GB (updated)
Week beginning 21 June
- Claiming an EU filing date on UK trade marks and design cases
- Exhaustion of IP rights and parallel trade from 1 January 2021 (updated)
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)
- Placing certain products on the Northern Ireland market
Week beginning 7 June
- EU Exit: Changes to right to work checks from 1 July 2021
- Get an export health certificate (updated)
- Moving goods temporarily into and out of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Apply to import goods temporarily to the UK