UK Trade with EU: Customs

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the annual cost to businesses of completing customs declarations on trade across the EU-UK border in each year since the UK left the EU.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

Estimates of the administrative burden of import and export declarations for trade between Great Britain and the European Union are published at the following link: Estimating the customs administrative burden of 2022 declarations - GOV.UK.

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