HMRC Guidance for CDS Exports with Licences

The UK authorities have issued Notice NTE 2024/19: Customs Declaration Service (CDS) exports - important information. This provides guidance to customs export declarants of licenceable goods to both help prevent any problems when creating their CDS export declaration, and what to do in the instance of receiving some of the relevant error messages back from CDS, including:

• What to do if your declaration is 'stuck' in a registered state (no DMSACC received).
• What to do if you have received error code 'CDS70740 Licence Error: Importer/Exporter is not the owner of the licence'.
• What to do if you have received the error code 'CDS70711 Licence Error: Electronic licence does not exist'.
• What to do if you have received error code 'CDS70761 Licence has insufficient quantity remaining to meet claim'.
• What to do if you have received 'CDS71216 Transaction not permitted: Licence is inactive and no longer available for use'.
• What to do if you have received 'CDS70719 Licence Error: Electronic licence quoted although Document Status Code indicated paper licence'.

Additionally it provides advice on what to do if you have received an error code mentioned above and your goods are at the border.