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When SPS goods from the EU arrive in Great Britain, the IPAFFS notification falls to you. How smoothly it goes depends largely on your supplier.

Two parallel changes are reshaping how goods and parcels move between Great Britain and the EU. Both are based on the same principle: more data, submitted earlier, through a single consolidated process.

From 1 January 2027, the United Kingdom will introduce its own Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), placing a carbon price on imports of aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen, and iron and steel.




A license is required for the export of certain goods. Decisive for the licensing requirement are the parameters defined by the legislator in lists of goods. A distinction is made between military equipment and dual-use goods, which can be used for both military and civilian purposes. Now the EU Commission has updated the list of goods.

The European Commission has published a new overview of GSP sections and associated chapters where tariff preferences are suspended for certain countries. The countries affected are India, Indonesia and Kenya.

Gerlach, the leading neutral provider of customs services in Europe, has been recognized as a top employer by the Top Employers Institute. For the first time, six countries can be pleased about the award.

The United States is the world’s second-largest market for e-commerce after China. Customers from Europe, and especially from Germany, also often like to store on U.S. shopping platforms. So what do companies need to do to benefit from exporting goods from the USA? In this article, we explain how you can best tap into the lucrative European market and what customs-related issues you need to consider.













