Non-EU Trade

Step 1: Know the country/ies of your imports and/or exports

Step 2: Identify if the country/ies has a preferential trade arrangement with the EU

Step 3: Know if the UK has agreed preferential trade terms with the country(ies)

Step 4: Assess any changes in Trade terms that will affect imports/exports (e.g. tariffs, product certification, product regulation & licencing)

Rules of origin

Step 1: Assess the percentage of your component parts/inputs of the product you manufacture – what came from EU or the rest of the world.

Step 2: Look at whether the manufacturing process ‘substantially transforms’ the inputs you are using into a completely new product.

Step 3: Compare HS tariff codes assigned to the component parts and the final product. 

Step 4: Assess the percentage of value added that occurs in your manufacturing process.

Step 1: Determine how many EU citizens you directly employ in the UK and when they first came here.

Step 2: Revisit your right to work checks, and ensure that they are still current.

Step 3: Assess how many of your UK employees are based in the EU.

Step 4: Find out how long they have resided in the EU for.

Step 5: Determine how many of your employees travel into the EU for temporary periods of time to work. For more information see our guidance here