ChamberCustoms has all Port Access and Port Badges

With our customs clearance and international trade experience, and your expertise in lifting, shifting and warehousing, we can be a dream team.

Let’s work together to provide compliant and efficient movement of goods for our customers, supporting them to import and export. 

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What a ChamberCustoms partnership means for you

• Less strain on your skilled staff - outsourcing customs declarations to experienced experts means you can build your core services.

• Enhance your profit margins - by sub-contracting to professional customs agents rather than another freight forwarder - where you can lose engagement and the relationship with your customer. 

• Your customers are in safe hands - ChamberCustoms delivers efficiency and compliance, which is why 77% of our customers recommend us. [2022 NPS Score of 73 | Outstanding]

Benefits of Partnering with ChamberCustoms

• Port Access and Port Badges. At ChamberCustoms, we work harmoniously with Freight Forwarders to provide all major port access, compliance with the UK Global Tariff, and the CDS operating manual

  • If you hold badges and inventory for some ports and sub-contract other port access to competitors - we can help without losing your profit margin.

  • Our partner forwarders can clear goods at any major port in the UK, satisfying their customer requirements by utilising our technology and inventory links.  

• We are compliant and efficient - Working with HMRC, we are trailblazers in the system of replacing CHIEF with CDS. We can help you switch customers to CDS faster and reduce the pain of transitioning and learning—speedily processing customs declarations and transit documents.

• Our digital customs clearance platform (EXabler) - Any UK-registered freight forwarder can use our digital platform. Your customers remain in control of the declarations we make on their behalf, populating the correct data fields in CDS. Highly skilled customs agents check the data to ensure compliance with HMRC.

• We make customs clear - We provide compliant customs clearance and declarations, removing traders' confusion and frustration.

Services we offer traders - importing and exporting

1. Customs Clearance for Importing and Exporting UK-based businesses

2. Customs and International Trade Consultancy

3. Provide CDS-compliant training for Import and Export agents 

Why ChamberCustoms? - Our Track Record

• Any customs agent can make customs entries - but ChamberCustoms provides a system to make companies compliant and demonstrate that with HMRC. 

• We understand the complexities of different customs unions, trade agreements and rules of origin.

• ChamberCustoms has direct links to all major air, sea and land port terminals in the UK.

• We harness the reach, expertise and knowledge of the British Chambers of Commerce network across the UK to offer an unbeatably fast, reliable and compliant service - with 130 years of experience in international trade.

Why Now?

The CHIEF to CDS switchover is imminent

• CHIEF closed for imports on 30th September 2022

• CHIEF closes for exports on 4th June 2024

• Customs agents must be re-trained on CDS, including the new data elements

• Customs agents are hard to find. We have a team of over 100 across the UK ready to help. We can help you to expand your customer base