Rapid has joined the UK Trader Scheme (UKTS) which helps ensure businesses don’t pay tariffs on the movement of goods into Northern Ireland from Great Britain where those goods remain in the UK’s customs territory.
Rapid can self-declare goods, not at risk of entering the EU so consumer orders are not subject to EU duty tariffs.
We currently ship to Northern Ireland customers with UK VAT applied, with a waiver for duty applied by UK mail on our behalf. Rapid will be taking on this responsibility from March, but there is no meaningful impact on you.
Rapid will review the goods exported to NI and will declare goods for use within NI and goods which has the potential for entering the EU. This may affect B2B customers in NI as this will mean they will have to own the customs declarations, ie that the products are intended for NI, not the Eu.
This whole section will be updated in due course.
Our logistics provider carries out customs declarations on the customer's behalf using the commodity codes, qty’s, prices and country of origin.