Here at Harbour Shipping we’re proud to have been supporting British commerce day and night for over 40 years. We help our clients to import and export thousands of tons of merchandise every day, across an astonishing range of goods.
Pasta
Take something as basic as pasta for example. At home you reach for the 500g packet of pasta, open the cookbook and start cooking a tasty meal. At industry level, our clients turn pasta into amazing meals for the supermarket shelves that millions of consumers buy and enjoy.
Here at Harbour Shipping we know all the ingredients to import pasta smoothly, quickly and successfully. In the Customs Clearance team we don’t reach for the cookbook when we think of pasta but we do reach, for example, for HMRC’s book of trade tariffs where everything that can be traded has its own particular code.
The Complexity of Customs Clearance
HMRC lists pasta under heading 1902 with as many as 25 sub-headings!
Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared
This code affects the duty and VAT rates foremost, as well as other specific rules and regulations like health certificates, import quotas, licences and other documentation required by different government departments. All these vary according to the type of merchandise and what the importer intends to do with the goods in the UK.
It isn’t just HMRC though: our Road Freight account managers and operators routinely deal with exporters, importers and hauliers throughout the UK and all across Europe, Turkey and North Africa. Our Deep Sea account managers and operators deal with cargo shipments around the whole world.
Road Freight Account Manager Gary Goldfinch said,
“It’s very satisfying to know we’re helping the processing plants and hauliers in Europe to coordinate with the British manufacturers to import key ingredients for quality brands that I buy in the supermarket.”
Supporting British Trade for Over 40 Years
Our track record of 40 years of skill and experience means Harbour Shipping can navigate this complexity more easily, quickly and accurately than most.
So whether you’re importing pasta specifically, dry food in general or indeed importing or exporting any other kind of merchandise it makes sense to get in touch with us.
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