Customs-ID
Are you paying too much customs duty?
Get your customs data for free!
HMRC have launched a new service allowing businesses to access their customs declaration data for imports and exports, completely free of charge.
Reports can now be requested and downloaded online, going back up to four years.
Analysing your customs data is a powerful way of identifying risks and opportunities in your supply chain, often uncovering opportunities for customs duty savings.
The service is currently in a Public Testing phase, with full implementation expected early in 2026.
Third-party authorisation – let Crowe UK manage it for you
A new feature of this service is the ability to authorise third parties to manage your reports on your behalf.
Using our bespoke customs analytics tool, Customs-ID, we can help your business make sense of the data.
In recent years, our analysis has helped generate millions of pounds in duty savings for clients.
For more information on this process, including a step-by-step guide on how to authorise a third party, please contact Jamie Mcleod or your usual Crowe contact.
Customs duty - the hidden tax
Customs duty is a direct cost of importing, but is often hidden from view and left by importers to customs agents to declare on their behalf.
Few importers know how much duty they pay or have the visibility and control to manage their customs obligations efficiently and compliantly, leaving them exposed to potentially expensive and damaging customs audits.
Our analytics tool, Customs-ID, supports compliance as well as identifying opportunities for duty savings and control over your international supply chain and customs duty obligations.
Benefits to your business
Take control of your global trade activity
By uncovering meaningful insights in order to strengthen your compliance profile by uncovering meaningful insights in order to strengthen your compliance profile.
Identify opportunities
Such as recoverying overpaid duty, optimising your supply chain and making your complinance precdures more reboust.
Highlight risks
If issued with a duty demand from HMRC, data analysis could help you successfully challenge it.
Obtain your customs data
From HMRC on a monthly basis. This is the very same data that HMRC use to target companies for customs audits.
Analyse your customs data
To help ensure you are paying the correct amount of customs duty – no more, and no less!
Visualise trends and anomalies
Turn raw customs data into dashboards and reports that highlight unusual patterns, seasonal fluctuations, or emerging risks.
What this offering involves
Retrospective review
Analysis of your customs data going back up to three years, and includes:
- full data analysis using Customs-ID
- presentation with key figures, findings, opportunities, risks and duty exposure
- workshop to walk through the presentation and the suggested actions and next steps.
Annual subscription
Annual go-forward subscription to our customs data analytics services, and includes:
- quarterly data analysis using Customs-ID
- four quarterly reports on key figures, findings, opportunities, risks and duty exposure
- access to ongoing 'customs audit' and monitoring of your compliance profile, with red flags identified in a timely manner.
Let's talk
Our in-depth knowledge of the application of VAT and Customs duties to your industry allows us to deal promptly with your enquiries and to ensure your VAT and Customs Duty position is optimised.
To find out more information about our Customs-ID tool, along with the pricing options, please get in touch.
