{"id":4244,"date":"2021-08-05T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:10:13","slug":"chief-service-to-close-from-march-2023-government-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/chief-service-to-close-from-march-2023-government-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIEF service to close from March 2023, Government reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system will be replaced by a single unified customs service from March 2023, it has been announced.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) said its replacement, known as the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), will save businesses time and money.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the CHIEF system will be withdrawn in two stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>From 30 September 2022, <\/strong>importers must use the CDS, rather than the CHIEF system, to complete import declarations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>From 31 March 2023, <\/strong>exporters must use the CDS, rather than the CHIEF or National Exports System (NES), to complete export declarations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After 31 March 2023, businesses will no longer be able to use the CHIEF service to make any kind of declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the changes, Sophie Dean and Katherine Green, Directors General for Borders and Trade at HMRC, said a single customs service will provide a \u201cmore secure and stable\u201d environment for businesses to operate in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCDS is a key part of the government\u2019s plans for a world-leading fully digitised border that will help UK businesses to trade and to prosper,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis announcement will provide clarity for traders and the border industry. We are committed to making the switch-over as smooth as possible and are working to ensure traders are fully supported with the new processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2018, the CDS is already in use for Northern Ireland and Rest of World declarations and has processed more than one million declarations to date.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the CDS, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/customs-declaration-service\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For help and advice with related matters, please get in touch with our expert team today. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system will be replaced by a single unified customs service from March 2023, it has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,56,31,60,63,50,120,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}