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Assessing current performance
How to measure your business performance, set the right targets and assess whether you should grow your business
Planning business growth
Guidance to help you prepare and plan for business growth, avoid common pitfalls, manage change and projects successfully, meet relevant standards and follow organisational best practice
Growth through product and service development
How to grow your business by developing new products or services
Growth through technology
Understand the key role technology can play in the development of your business
Service industries
Overview of regulations for trading in services
Importing controlled goods
Importing solid ammonium nitrate in consignments of 500 kilograms or more. Importing animal furs, skins and fish. Offensive weapons and stopping imports of illegal weapons. Importing and exporting waste. ...
Food and drink
Guidance for food and drink businesses in Northern Ireland on relevant regulation, best practice and food safety responsibilities
Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return
If your business is registered for VAT in the UK, find out when you can, or need to, account for import VAT on your VAT Return (also called postponed VAT accounting)
Bringing live animals to NI from EU via the GB landbridge
The procedures to follow for transit of live animals moving from EU to Northern Ireland through GB only
Report goods exported to the EU using inward or outward processing
Check if you should submit information sheets (INFs) if you're a UK trader using customs special procedures for inward or outward processing
Tell HMRC if you sell goods in Northern Ireland or move goods between Northern Ireland and the EU
If you're a VAT-registered business trading in Northern Ireland or between Northern Ireland and the EU you need to tell HMRC, so you can continue to account for VAT on acquisitions and dispatches
Importing plants from countries within the EU
Find out how to import plants from countries within the European Union
Exporting plants
Find out how to export plants from Northern Ireland
Plant passports
Find out what a plant passport is and how to get one
Personal imports of plant and plant products
Find out what plants and plant products are allowed to imported into Northern Ireland
Get a Phytosanitary Certificate
Apply to get a Phytosanitary certificate using Phytosanitary Export Certificate Online (PECOL)
List of goods covered by the rules of origin for various countries
Find out about the origin rules which apply to most goods for various countries
Rules of origin for goods moving between the UK and EU
Detailed guidance on the rules of origin requirements under the UK’s deal with the EU (the Trade and Cooperation Agreement)
Refunds and waivers on customs debt by HMRC
Find out about repayment and remission of customs duties by HMRC and how to apply
Trading CITES-listed specimens through UK ports and airports
Designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants, or their parts and derivatives