Extension to the grace period by six months for RGR

The Reliefs Reference Document (legislation) has now been published, which includes the extension to the grace period by six months. The additional period extends the existing one-year grace period agreed last year to 18 months, allowing goods located in the EU to return to the UK by 30 June 2022 under RGR rules, regardless of when they left the UK.

The revised Reliefs Reference Document is now online. Please find this in the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-documents-for-the-customs-reliefs-from-a-liability-to-import-duty-and-miscellaneous-amendments-eu-exit-regulations-2020

For ease please see the document entitled: United Kingdom Customs Tariff: Reliefs from Import Duty, version 1.2, dated 22 March 2021, section 37, page 59 for Returned Goods Relief.

(news details courtesy of the YBDSA)