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Secure your business assets
How to identify and protect your assets, including your vehicles and transported goods.
Preventing identity theft, scams and fraud
How to protect your business from the risk of identity theft.
Business security: cash
How to handle cash, cheques, and debit and credit card payments securely.
Business security: stock and theft prevention
Keep track of stock, maintain security, and avoid staff theft by restricting access to stock and using CCTV.
Business security plans and procedures
Plans and procedures to physically secure your business property and assets.
Reporting a crime against your business
How to report a crime against your business to the Police Service of Northern Ireland or Crimestoppers.
Advantages and disadvantages of exporting
Advantages and disadvantages of trading outside Northern Ireland and tax considerations.
Is my product suitable for exporting?
Deciding if your product is right for selling outside Northern Ireland.
Accessing trade networks
Accessing networks for advice and support for trading outside Northern Ireland.
Are you ready to export?
Find out what you need to consider when thinking about trading outside Northern Ireland.
Support for international trade
Practical advice and support for businesses starting to trade outside Northern Ireland.
Develop an export marketing plan
Use market research and trade visits to develop an exporting marketing plan.
Top tips for export success
The following top tips will help you to get the support you need to begin exporting.
Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain or countries outside the UK and EU
Find out how to claim a Customs Duty waiver if you are bringing goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain or countries outside the UK and EU which might otherwise be charged ‘at risk’ tariffs.
Republic of Ireland: providing services
Guidance for UK businesses on rules for selling services to the Repubic of Ireland.
Selling services to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein
Guidance for UK businesses on rules for selling services.
Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
Find out if you need to declare good you bring into or take out of the UK
Apply to import goods temporarily to the UK
How to apply for Temporary Admission to import goods into the UK, or move goods from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, and use them for up to 2 years or more, before re-exporting them.
Import high-risk food and feed not of animal origin from the EU to Great Britain
How to import or move high-risk food and feed not of animal origin from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
Apply for Designated Export Place approval
Find out how to apply to operate a Designated Export Place (DEP) to clear goods inland at an approved premises before moving goods to an air or sea port