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Importing standard goods using TSP

How to import goods that are not controlled (standard goods) from the EU into the UK using transitional simplified procedures. The UK will leave the EU on 31 October. This page tells you how to...

Shippers post-Brexit charge is huge

Government predictions that UK shippers could face a £15bn bill for post no-deal Brexit customs entries has been substantially underestimated, but Metro are committed to simplify the burden and...

HMRC’s No-Deal easements

Post a No-Deal exit shippers will need to declare EU goods imported into the UK by submitting a customs declaration and pay any duty and tax owed. But HMRC have announced easements to simplify the...

Auto industry Brexit warning

Chiefs from 23 auto business associations have predicted that a no-deal Brexit would have a ‘seismic’ impact on making cars in Europe. The chiefs from 23 auto business associations across Europe...

Lloyds recognise Metro excellence

The Global Freight Awards (GFA) are arguably the industry’s most prestigious and hotly contested, with the world’s biggest carriers and forwarders competing against smaller, more agile competitors,...

Asia-Europe blank sailings announced

Carriers have been announcing more blank sailings on the Asia-North Europe trade as slowing demand threatens to pull down rate levels. With widespread factory closures during China’s Golden Week in...

French Customs issue Brexit guidance

French Customs authorities have published guidance for UK businesses in the event of a no deal EU Exit. If the UK leaves the EU with no deal Brexit customs formalities and controls at the border...

Hong Kong X-ray costs and delay fears

Starting in November (UPDATE: NOW JANUARY 2020), in phased deadlines set by the International Civil Aviation Organization, 100% of all air freight shipments from Hong Kong International Airport must...

2020 bunker changes

In 2016, the International Marine Organization (IMO) agreed to limit the sulphur content in all marine fuels to 0.5% beginning in 2020, which has distinct ramifications for shippers, as carriers...

HMRC opt-in 88k EORI numbers

Despite continuous reporting of the need for an EORI number to continue importing from the EU post-Brexit, take-up had been persistently low, leading HMRC to take the unusual step of pro-actively...

Brexit scares and reality checks

Leaked government documents detailing Brexit preparations, code-named Operation Yellowhammer, suggests that extended delays to medicine supplies and shortages of fresh foods, together with price...