Ports and Borders - Maritime

Guidance designed to help importers and their agents manage consignments that are subject to refusal by Trading Standards.

Letter to importer advising their consignment has been detained at the border pending further assessment of the goods, listing what samples have been taken from the consignment.

Letter to importer advising of the outcome of the unsafe and/or non-compliant sample results taken from their consignment, which remains detained at the border.

Letter to importer advising that a satisfactory documentary check has been carried out on the consignment.

Letter to importer advising that a documentary check has been carried out on the consignment, and the documentation is non-compliant, recommending further advice is sought and existing stock is quarantined.

Letter to importer advising of the satisfactory outcome of sample results taken from their consignment, which is now released.

Letter to importer advising of the outcome of the unsafe and/or non-compliant sample results taken from their consignment, which was released, recommending further advice is sought and existing stock is quarantined.

Letter to importer advising samples have been taken from the consignment, which has been released following an initial assessment, advising importers to consider whether they should quarantine the goods pending sample results.

This section covers how to manifest search vessels arriving at London Gateway and Tilbury port on the CNS system.

This section covers how to manifest search vessels arriving at Tilbury port on the Destin8 system.