Removal of the country code ‘EU’ for the country of:
- origin
- dispatch
- preferential origin
From 8 February 2022, the use of country code ‘EU’ when declaring goods is changing.
Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF)
The country code ‘EU’ will no longer be valid in any data field and the specific member state country code must be used.
Customs Declaration Service (CDS)
HMRC advises you to use the specific member state country code for the time being.
Removal of the country code ‘EU’ on CDS and the Online Tariff Tool will take place later.
Supplementary declarations
For supplementary declarations submitted after 8 February 2022 the specific member state country code must be used, regardless of whether the tax point is before this date. For CDS we advise you to use the specific member state country code.
The list of valid country codes for the member states is as follows:
- Austria (AT)
- Belgium (BE)
- Bulgaria (BG)
- Croatia (HR)
- Republic of Cyprus (CY)
- Czech Republic (CZ)
- Denmark (DK)
- Estonia (EE)
- Finland (including the Åland Islands) (FI)
- France (including Monaco) (FR)
- Germany (including the island of Heligoland: excluding the territory of Büsingen) (DE)
- Greece (GR)
- Hungary (HU)
- Ireland (IE)
- Italy (including Livigno: excluding the Municipality of Campione d’Italia) (IT)
- Latvia (LV)
- Lithuania (LT)
- Luxembourg (LU)
- Malta (MT)
- Netherlands (NL)
- Poland (PL)
- Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira) (PT)
- Romania (RO)
- Slovak Republic (SK)
- Slovenia (SI)
- Spain (including the Balearic Islands) (ES)
- Sweden (SE)
You can find the list of country codes for the member states in the UK Trade Tariff: country and currency codes.
More information
To stop getting the Tariff stop press notices, or to add recipients to the distribution list, email: tariff.management@hmrc.gov.uk.
See the UK Trade Tariff for the full duty rate, unit of quantity, preferences, quotas, footnotes and VAT rate.
Published 4 February 2022
