2022 No. 780
Customs

The Customs (Tariff and Reliefs) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made
Laid before the House of Commons
Coming into force
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers in sections 8, 19, 23(3) and (7), and 32(1), (7), (8), (10) and (13) of, and paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1(3)(c) of Schedule 7 to, the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 20181.
In considering the rate of import duty that ought to apply to goods in a standard case2 for which provision is made by the following Regulations, the Treasury have had regard to the matters in section 8(5) of that Act and the recommendation about the rate made to the Treasury by the Secretary of State further to section 8(6) of that Act.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Customs (Tariff and Reliefs) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1st August 2022.

Amendment of the Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 20202.

In the Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 20203, in regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation), in the definition of “Tariff of the United Kingdom”, for “1.9, dated 1st June 2022” substitute “1.10, dated 10th July 2022”4.

Amendment of the Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 20203.

In the Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 20205, in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “UK Reliefs document”, for “1.3, dated 28th December 2021” substitute “1.5, dated 10th July 2022”6.

Michael Tomlinson
Gareth Johnson
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1430) (the “Establishment Regulations”) and the Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1431) (the “Reliefs Regulations”).

These Regulations make amendments to those statutory instruments to update references to documents containing the information of imported goods (“commodity codes”) following updates made by the World Customs Organization and other changes to commodity codes.

Regulation 2 amends the definition of “Tariff of the United Kingdom” of the Establishment Regulations to refer to a revised United Kingdom tariff document. The revised tariff document introduces a new Chapter 99 (Special Combined Nomenclature Codes) which contains two new commodity codes 9905000000 and 9919000000 to be used when claiming transfer of residence relief.

Regulation 3 amends the definition of “UK Reliefs document” of the Reliefs Regulations to refer to a revised United Kingdom reliefs document. The revised reliefs document clarifies the eligibility criteria and conditions to claim transfer of residence relief when using the new commodity codes.

A Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument will be published on the website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins.