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Reduce your use of raw materials
Cutting down on materials use through correct specification, handling and storage and better product design.
Reduce waste in production
How to analyse business processes to cut waste without affecting your overall efficiency and profitability.
Reducing business waste: six top tips
Tips and guidance on how to reduce business waste and ways to make your business more resource efficient.
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.
Purchasing carbon offsets
Offsetting the carbon emissions that you can't help producing and checking the quality of carbon offset products.
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
Approval and labelling when supplying pesticides and biocides
How to apply for approval to sell pesticides and biocides, and information you must provide to customers.
Approved pesticide and biocide products and qualifications
Check if your pesticide or biocide is an approved product, qualifications for fumigation and POPs phase out.
Care when using pesticides and biocides
Using pesticides and biocides - aerial application, using pesticides and biocides near water, dealing with spills.
Identifying asbestos
Your responsibilities for identifying asbestos and maintaining an asbestos register for your buildings.
Working with asbestos
The legal responsibilities that apply if you work with asbestos and the practical steps to take when you find asbestos.
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
Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service
If you're a trader, haulier or carrier and use a UK port using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service, find out what you need to do to get goods through customs.
Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS)
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports of live animals, animal products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin into Great Britain.