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HMRC postpones CDS export deadline

[ December 15, 2022   //   ]

As widely expected, HM Revenue & Customs has postponed the deadline to move export declarations to its new Customs Declaration Service (CDS) until 30 November eight months later than previously announced.

Businesses already need to use CDS to make import declarations, in place of the old Chief computer.

HMRC director of border change delivery, Sarah Hartley, said: “We have moved the deadline to enable us to spend more time working with industry in delivering and testing critical functionality as well as the support needed to help declarants move across to the new system.

The extra time also allows businesses and stakeholders more time to prepare their customers and software products for the November deadline.

Chairman of Association of Freight Software Suppliers (AFSS), Steve Bartlett, said: “AFSS and its members welcome the announcement to move the exports deadline for CDS, and the revised plan has our full support. Indeed, we are particularly grateful for the huge effort made by HMRC to consult and work with AFSS in the programme. Jointly, we have sound controls and checkpoints in place to ensure that as we progress into 2023, we successfully achieve the Trader migration to the new platform.”

Mark Phippen from HMRC CDS delivery partner, Descartes Pentant Community System Provider, added: “We believe the new timeline for CDS exports is a sensible and pragmatic decision, allowing HMRC and, in turn, service providers, traders and agents, to develop systems and procedures that work for all from day one.”

Amanda Francis, chief executive of the Association of International Courier and Express Services (AICES) also said she fully supported the extension of the migration timetable for exports on CDS: “It is a pragmatic decision which reflects the need to ensure the new system is properly tested and stable. We particularly welcome the decision to allow operational flexibility with the phased migration of exports from CHIEF to CDS.”

HMRC said it would provide further information about the timeline for CDS exports by the end of January 2023.

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