AFL Worldwide bonded warehouses are secure, clean, well equipped with the latest technology and operated by our experienced warehouse staff. We can store and distribute your goods anywhere across the globe.
Our European head office in the UK is a customs ERTS bonded warehouse allowing us to remove import shipments customs uncleared direct onto our facility for 3 reasons:
The benefits of using DFS Worldwide to handle your cargo include free storage up to three days as opposed to 24 hours in the Transit Shed Operators (TSO) warehouses, superior service with no queuing time involved, flexible and friendly staff available 7 days per week.
In addition we can receive goods arriving by road under customs bond from the EU and non EU countries direct into our facility for customs clearance. Transshipment services are available for UK terminating AWBs with an ultimate destination to another country for the cargo.
Our bonded facility enables our customers to import over hundreds of consignments from all over the world to the UK in form of one consolidation shipment. DFS then removes the goods to its bond and custom clears each individual consignment and distribute each individual shipment to your selected customer within Europe. Re-issue of a new AWB, relabeling, repacking are all part of the services available.
With our bonded warehouse located minutes away from London Heathrow airport and our strong partnerships with our Chinese Freight forwarders, we have created a perfect platform for Amazon FBA.
Bonded warehouses provide specialized storage services such as deep freeze or bulk liquid storage, commodity processing, coordination with transportation and are an integral part of the global supply chain.
Our UK bonded warehouse is open 7 days a week to help customers with speeding clearance and delivery. This will also saves weekends storage charges from airlines.
What is a UK Bonded Warehouse
A bonded warehouse is a building or other secured area in which dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty.
Upon entry of goods into the warehouse, the importer and warehouse proprietor incur liability under a bond.
This liability is generally cancelled when the goods are:
While the goods are in the UK bonded warehouse, they may, under supervision by the customs authority, be manipulated by cleaning, sorting, repacking, or otherwise changing their condition by processes that do not amount to manufacturing.
After manipulation, and within the warehousing period, the goods may be exported without the payment of duty, or they may be withdrawn for consumption upon payment of duty at the rate applicable to the goods in their manipulated condition at the time of withdrawal.
Our UK bonded warehouses provide specialized storage services such as deep freeze or bulk liquid storage, commodity processing, and coordination with transportation, and are an integral part of the global supply chain.
When to use “Customs Bonded Warehouse”
Customs warehouses are premises or systems that are authorised and supervised by HMRC.
Entering your goods to customs warehousing means you can delay paying customs duty, import VAT, and where appropriate excise duty, until the goods leave the customs warehousing procedure or enter another customs procedure. You can also use customs warehousing when your goods have arrived in the UK and:
Eligible goods
To be eligible for customs warehousing, your goods should have been imported from outside the European Union (EU) and be liable to customs duties and/or import VAT, or be moving in duty suspension from another member state i.e. the goods have been entered to a duty suspension procedure in another member state or are moving under Community Transit.
You can also, if suitably authorised, use the customs warehouse procedure to store Cap goods that are eligible for an export refund or Community goods under the common or co-storage arrangements.
Goods subject to prohibitions or restrictions must be presented with the appropriate supporting documents at the EU frontier. Meat or meat products must also have been subjected to frontier veterinary checks prior to their entry to the customs warehousing procedure. There are usually no time limits for storing goods, except CAP goods.
Enter goods into a Customs bonded warehouse
Traders can enter goods into a customs warehouse in several ways:
Paying duties on goods being released from the customs warehousing procedure
When your goods are released from the customs warehousing procedure, you may have duties and taxes to pay. You can work them out using:
You may also have to pay import VAT at this time.
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