Following consultation with the border industry, exporters will now have until 30 November 2023 to move across to the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), 8 months later than previously announced.
After 30 November 2023, businesses will need to use CDS to make export declarations for goods they send out of the UK, as they already do for import declarations.
Sarah Hartley, Director of Border Change Delivery at HMRC said:
“We have moved the deadline to enable us to spend more time working with industry in delivering and testing critical functionality as well as the support needed to help declarants move across to the new system.
The extra time also allows businesses and stakeholders more time to prepare their customers and software products for the November deadline.” Customs Declaration Service exporter deadline extended – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)