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UK Trade with EU: Customs

Asked by Graham LeadbitterScottish National PartyTreasuryTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 24783

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the annual cost to businesses of completing customs declarations on trade across the EU-UK border in each year since the UK left the EU.

Answered by Treasury

Estimates of the administrative burden of import and export declarations for trade between Great Britain and the European Union are published at the following link: Estimating the customs administrative burden of 2022 declarations - GOV.UK.

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