Retailers & Brexit

Is exporting your retail goods into Northern Ireland eating into your profit margins? 

New rules for retailers

Following Brexit in 2020, retailers have been required by law to complete declarations to customs via the UK Government's Trader Support Services (TSS). 

While TSS provides a useful service, it also comes with its own admin overhead, requiring details of goods consignments to be uploaded via the portal.

This has caused many retailers to have to consider how many lines of goods are imported into Northern Ireland or to look at changing their supply chain. 

*source: Northern Ireland Government

** source: Statista 

Why act now?

Initially, when Brexit was instigated, there was a grace period given by the UK Government and HMRC given to paperwork submitted when moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 

Now we are seeing a more regulated approach being adopted, which could see greater HMRC focus on retailers' paperwork and the issuing of financial penalties for incorrect supplementary declarations.

Automating your data entry via the TSS API to save you time and money

PDMS have developed TraderTap, a straightforward, efficient and flexible digital solution to the admin involved in shipping goods in and out of Northern Ireland.  This lean solution dramatically reduces the time required to get essential paperwork completed by automating data entry via the TSS API.

TraderTap deals with Entry Summary Declarations (ENS), Simplified Frontier Declarations (SFD) and Supplementary Declarations (SDI or Sup. Decs.). It takes your goods data from a single file through the whole process lifecycle, deals with the 99 goods lines constraint and allows you to handle any possible errors in submission effectively.