International Trade Update – Rejected UK Certificates of Origin and ChamberCustoms outages

International Trade Update – Rejected UK Certificates of Origin and ChamberCustoms outages

UK Certificates of Origin being rejected

The Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce team have been made aware that recently a number of UK Certificates of Origins have been rejected by customs authorities as they have been unable to verify the UK Certificate of Origin on the ICC Certification of Origin verification website.

Certificates of Origin prepared on one of the online platforms are automatically uploaded and can be verified on the website. Manual documents cannot be uploaded to the site.

So far the countries for which this is a particular problem are Russia and Azerbaijan but we expect more countries to use this site going forward.

Given the increasing use of the ICC Certificate of Origin verification website by customs authorities we would encourage ALL applications to be requested via the online ecert platform, please see link on how to register below if required:

https://www.ecert.sgs.com/uk

 

ChamberCustoms – Update:

Please be aware of a couple of upcoming CHIEF outages coming up over the next few weeks, this is due to an annual CHIEF disaster recovery exercise and unfortunately may put a temporary stop on our abilities to declare all import and export declarations on CHIEF.

The outages will be over two phases and will take place on the below dates:

  • Wednesday 27th April 2022 – between (12:00 – 14:00)
  • Wednesday 4th May 2022 – between (12:00 – 14:00)

We will still be able to input declarations in draft mode during these outage times, we will just be unable to declare the entries.

Unfortunately it is something which cannot be avoided and HMRC have apologised for any inconvenience this may cause.

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