SGS has announced that SGS Trade Facilitation Services (TFS) UK has achieved HMRC Excise Registered Consignor status, enhancing support for clients involved in manufacturing, distributing and moving excise goods. The company’s new status enables it to streamline the customs clearance process, making it easier and faster to clear goods at UK ports.
As a Registered Excise Consignor, SGS can now clear import excise goods at any UK seaport or Eurotunnel entry point. This authorisation enables SGS to initiate the excise movement in the HMRC Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS), ensuring that goods move seamlessly from ports to warehouses with minimal delays. SGS handles the import duty declaration and VAT (where applicable), while excise duty remains suspended during transit to the bonded warehouse.
With authorisation to raise Electronic Administrative Documents (e-ADs) and generate Administrative Reference Codes (ARCs) on EMCS, SGS ensures your consignments are fully compliant from UK ports to bonded warehouses. SGS is also an approved Excise Registered Consignor in the EU, where its team in the Netherlands facilitates the continuous movement of excise goods within the EU under duty suspension.
As the world’s leading certification and inspection company, SGS provides an end-to-end customs solution, including customs software, European transit solutions, customs duty guarantees and brokerage services – all managed in-house by teams across Europe.
