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 points of support for Northern Ireland businesses
Guidance: Most recent
Access the latest guidance available, including new rules that apply to local businesses:
Week beginning 29 April
- Apply for the UK Carrier Scheme
- Check if you can apply for the UK Carrier Scheme
- Importing or moving fish to the UK (updated)
- Making a full export declaration (updated)
Week beginning 15 April
- Import food and drink from the EU to Great Britain (updated)
- Apply to use simplified declarations for imports (updated)
- Making an export supplementary declaration (updated)
- Making an import declaration in your records (updated)
- Get an export health certificate (updated)
- Apply to use simplified declarations for exports (updated)
- Making an import supplementary declaration (updated)
Week beginning 8 April
- Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit (updated)
- Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol (updated)
Week beginning 4 March
- Making an export supplementary declaration (updated)
- Trade with Japan (updated)
- Create a goods movement reference (updated)
- Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme: how to register and seal consignments (updated)
Week beginning 26 February
Week beginning 19 February
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland (updated)
- Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK (updated)
- Moving food and animal feed from Northern Ireland to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)
Week beginning 5 February
Week beginning 29 January
- Importing and exporting organic food (updated)
- Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK (updated)
- Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
- Apply to use simplified declarations for imports you entered in your records without authorisation
- Manually arrive your goods in the UK
- Export food, drink and agricultural products (updated)
- Making a full import declaration (updated)
- Importing or moving live animals, germinal products, animal by-products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin (updated)
- Making a simplified frontier declaration (updated)
- Importing and exporting plants and plant products (updated)
- Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS) (updated)
- Import food and drink from the EU to Great Britain (updated)
- Import high-risk food and feed not of animal origin from the EU to Great Britain (updated)
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland (updated)
- Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK (updated)
- Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
- Create a goods movement reference (updated)
Week beginning 22 January
- Placing manufactured goods on the market in Northern Ireland (updated)
- Selling services to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein (updated)
- Republic of Ireland: providing services (updated)
- Making an indirect export from Northern Ireland (updated)
- Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain or countries outside the UK and EU (updated)
- Using the UKCA marking (updated)
- UKCA marking: roles and responsibilities (updated)
- UKCA marking: conformity assessment and documentation (updated)
- Placing manufactured products on the market in Great Britain (updated)
- Paying National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EU, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland (updated)
Week beginning 15 January
Week beginning 8 January
- Import high-risk food and feed not of animal origin from the EU to Great Britain (Updated)
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EU, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland (updated)
Week beginning 4 December
Week beginning 20 November
- Duty suspensions and tariff quotas (updated)
- Export or move composite food products (updated)
- Import animal by-products and high-risk food and feed not of animal origin from the EU to Great Britain (updated)
- Import food and drink from the EU to Great Britain (updated)
Week beginning 6 November
Week beginning 16 October
- Importing or moving fish to the UK (updated)
- Importing and exporting plants and plant products (updated)
Week beginning 2 October
- Using the UKNI marking (updated)
- Placing manufactured goods on the EU market (updated)
- Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 25 September
Week beginning 11 September
- Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme: Labelling requirements
- Sign up for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme
- Importing and exporting by post (updated)
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EU, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland (updated)
Week beginning 4 September
- Hops and hop products marketing standards (updated)
- Address for service for intellectual property rights (updated)
- Retail Movement Scheme: how the scheme will work (updated)
- Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme: how to register and seal consignment (updated)
Week beginning 28 August
- Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK (updated)
- Apply to use simplified declarations for imports (updated)
Week beginning 21 August
- Get access to the Customs Declaration Service (updated)
- Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland (updated)
- Apply to claim a repayment or remission of import duty on ‘at risk’ goods brought into Northern Ireland
Week beginning 7 August
Week beginning 31 July
- Webinars: Movement of goods from GB to NI under the Windsor Framework
- Export controls: dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources (updated)
- Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme: groupage and mixed load consignments
Week beginning 24 July
Week beginning 3 July
- Proposed legislative changes to producing and supplying heated tobacco products
- Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain or countries outside the UK and EU (updated)
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 26 June
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EU, Iceland, Liechenstein, Norway, or Switzerland (updated)
- Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EU, Iceland, Liechenstein, Norway, or Switzerland (updated)