We have recently been assisting a client whose exported goods were stopped by Border Force.
As a result, Department of Business & Trade ruled the goods required an export licence & Border Force seized the goods; the trader repeatedly explained that the goods did not require an export licence, but Export Control Joint Unit of Department of Business & Trade kept producing different Ratings/Rulings that the goods were controlled as Dual use.
The Border Force staff who act as the portal (NPSU) have no training or experience in Export control, so long delays in emails being forwarded back and forth.
Eventually, the Trader claimed their right to a Judicial review (Condemnation Proceedings) and after a Home Office Lawyer saw the matter, the Seizure was quashed as, the Export Control Joint Unit ’s Rating had been wrong, and Border Force should not have seized the goods.
To add insult to injury, HMRC but a block on their exports (aka a snag) and all their subsequent exports were stopped and checked causing great cost and aggravation (all goods: No Licence Required).
Seems HMRC did not know the seizure had been quashed.
The final irony is, when the exporter asked Border Force to review had had been a shambles, they admitted, in writing, that the consignment had been referred (informed on) to Border Force for Export control checks by DHL.
British Export Control
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