HM Revenue & Customs Updates CDS Import/Export Licence Codes

We use some essential cookies to make this website work. We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Find a list of codes for the types of Government Department licences that can be declared for imports and exports in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5C). Document code X900 has been added to Appendix 5C Export. The page has been updated to reflect the creation of Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST). Document Code X803 has been added. Document code L159 has been added to Appendix 5C Import. Document code 9L51 has been added to Appendix 5C Import. Code X828 has been added to Appendix 5C Exports. Codes L128 and L129 have been added to Appendix 5C Imports. Document code 9EHC has been added for declaring Export Health Certificates. Document code C105 has been added to Appendix 5C Export. Document Code C809 has been added to Appendices 5C Import and 5C Export. Document Code X809 has been added to Appendix 5C Export. New document code L157 added to Appendix 5C for imports and new document codes X867 and X868 added to Appendix 5C for exports. Document code X866 has been added to Appendix 5C export document. Codes 9063 and 9L49 have been added to the Appendix 5C import document. Document code X865 has been added to the list of licence types for export. Entries for document code 9005 have been removed as this document code is no longer used for declaring licences. Document code L154 has been added to the list of licence types for import. Appendix 5C Import and Export updated for document code 9112 to amend licence type. Document codes L149, L150, L151, L152and L153 have been added to Appendix 5C Imports. Document codes X844, X845, X847, X848, X849, X850, X851, X854, X855, X856, X857 and X858 have been added to Appendix 5C Exports. Code L148 has been added to Appendix 5C — Import. Within Appendix 5C — Export, code X841 has been amended and codes X843, X852 and X853 have been added. Document code 9042 has been added. Document code L146 has been added to Appendix 5C Imports. Document codes X841 and X842 have been added to Appendix 5C Exports. Document code 9063 has been added to Appendix 5C — Import. Codes C638 and C639 have been removed from Appendix 5C — Export. Document code 9046 has been added. The tariff measures currently covered by document code 9103 span separate controls on the import of ammonium nitrate. The Government Departments which have ownership of these measures have requested that they be separated. The new document code 9046 will cover the HSE Certificate of Exemption and will be removed from document code 9103, which will continue to be used for declaring a Detonation Resistance Test Certificate, once the tariff measures have been updated. In the meantime the HSE Certificate of Exemption can still be declared using document code 9103. As part of the tariff measure amendments, the online tariff will automatically apply a document waiver to qualifying consignments so that they no longer have to declare either 9103 or 9046. Document code X802 added. This is applicable only to exports from Northern Ireland to Ukraine. Document code X808 has been added. Document codes X805, X806 and X807 have been added. Appendix 5C Union Document Code X993 added. Document code X838 has been added to Appendix 5C — Export. Document codes L144 and L838 added for imports. Document codes X824, X832, X837, X840 added for exports. Document code L143 added to Appendix 5C — Import. Document codes X817, X819, X823, X830, X831, X834, X835, X836, X990, X992 added to Appendix 5c — Export. Terminology changed to reflect the creation of the Department of Business and Trade, formerly known as the Dep