Customs Declaration Service for Exports

Customs Declaration Service for Exports

This detailed, practical workshop provides essential and detailed information on what CDS is, and how to use it for exports.

By Chamber International

Date and time

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:30 - 08:30 PDT

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 3 hours

Since 30 March 2024, businesses have been able to declare all their exports from the UK using the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), which replaced the outdated CHIEF system. The launch of CDS represented a major change to the way in which customs declarations are made.

This detailed, practical workshop provides essential and detailed information on what CDS is, and how to use it.

Attend this workshop to discover how customs declarations are done by clearing agents on your behalf, or if your business wants to be able to make its own declarations to customs.


Contents:


  • What is CDS?
  • What are differences between CDS and CHIEF?

- Data categories

- Data sets

- Data elements

  • The eight data sets and their elements

- Data set 1: Declarations, procedures and additional procedures

- Data set 2: Previous documents, statements, documents and references

- Data set 3: Exporters, importers, sellers, buyers etc (replacing the SAD boxes)

- Data set 4: Delivery terms (Incoterms®), tax lines, additions and deductions, valuation

- Data set 6: Packages, quantities, goods description, commodity codes

- Data set 7: Transport modes, identification, containers, seals

- Data set 8: Quotas, guarantees, nature of transactions, statistical value

  • Supporting documents - how does CDS differ from CHIEF?

- Information requirements for a customs entry

- Commercial invoice

- Using the UK Tariff

- Procedure codes

  • CDS tariff completion rules - where and how to access the information you need
  • Types of declarations - the different options available to you
  • Working with third-party declarants - the importance of instructions
  • Working through a CDS entry - a step-by-step demonstration
  • Sources of information and help for CDS
  • Explaining the terminology. What’s new, and who needs to provide the information?


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As the pace of business life increases and knowledge quickly becomes stale, organisations are beginning to re-evaluate the way they look at training and developing their staff. More importers and exporters are seeing the value of aligning their choice of training with strategic organisational objectives and our best-selling training model has been designed in response to this.

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  • More stimulating compared to chalk and talk classroom sessions

Our online courses and seminars are taught live by our experienced, certified trainers, and are fully interactive (not “one-way” webinars). Join us to deepen your import/export know-how, find the right answers to niggling questions, and learn best practice.

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