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Originally Posted by midgetman
>>>>>>Hopefully the UK will find enough customs officers to avoid huge queues that side!
Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha
Joke of the day. <Snip>
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As I noted earlier in this thread, part of the problem will be that there are NO Customs Officers at any of the ports or airports in the UK - they are all now Border Force Officers with designated Customs powers. As a result the majority of the focus of their work has been immigration and very few remaining have a Customs background - all the Customs processing of import/export entries is done centrally in Salford and it will be up to the Border Force Officer at the port to inform Salford that goods have been inspected or "live" documents such as Carnets or licences have been processed at the port (assuming any new recruits are trained how to deal with them!) before clearance of the entry. Then there's the new entry processing system (CDS) which is due to go live as a solo system in March as well...
Just to clear up a couple of other points - TIR carnets were for a one way movement and mostly seemed to be used for movements to/from Eastern Europe (mainly Hungary at Felixstowe) or Turkey and were a pain in the backside.
CPD carnnets are for personal use of vehicles - even if you drive your historic racecar to the circuit before racing it there, the race counts as professional use so invalidates the carnet.