Guidance

Additional Information (AI) Statement Codes for Data Element 2/2 of the Customs Declaration Service (CDS)

Find out the codes to be used to provide additional information in Data Element (DE) 2/2 of the customs declaration or clearance request (Appendix 4).

This Appendix provides details of the codes to be used to provide additional information in Data Element (DE) 2/2 of the customs declaration or clearance request. The completion of codes will be determined by the:

  • Procedure or Additional Procedure Codes used in DE 1/10 or 1/11
  • commodity code details declared in DE 6/14 to 6/17 or
  • CDS Declaration Completion Instructions

The Additional Information (AI) codes which may be used in DE 2/2 are specified below along with the details to be entered on the declaration or customs clearance request.

Where the completion rules for a specific AI Code in Appendix 1: DE 1/10: Requested and Previous Procedure Codes and Appendix 2: DE 1/11: Additional Procedure Codes specify different rules to the completion instructions shown in this document, the rules specified in Appendices 1 and 2 take precedence.

The Codes are split into:

  • Appendix 4A: Union Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or customs clearance requests
  • Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or customs clearance requests

Where a single goods item requires both Union and National AI statement codes declared in DE 2/2, any Union Codes (beginning with a number) must be declared first.

Appendix 4A: Union Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or customs clearance requests

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Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or clearance requests

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Published 1 August 2018
Last updated 5 July 2022 + show all updates
  1. 'Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or clearance requests’ has been updated. Information has been added to the description of OVR01 to clarify that document code 9WKS is required in Date Element 2/3 when using the OVR01 duty override.

  2. The file 'Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on Customs Declaration or clearance requests' has been updated to reflect the introduction of the new H7 Declaration Category (Super Reduced Data Set (SRDS)) and the introduction of new procedures for Grouping (declaring different products under a single commodity code).

  3. This page has been updated with corrections to recent updates made on NIAID.

  4. Users of the Trader Support Service can now use AI statement ‘NIAID’ for ROW-NI movements, when claiming customs duty waivers (subsidies).

  5. This page has been updated to add AI Statement Code RRS01.

  6. This page has been updated to correct the entry for code MOVE1.

  7. Guidance has been updated to reflect that the additional information code ‘NIAID’ can now be used for Rest of World to Northern Ireland (RoW-NI) movements. Users of the Trader Support Service currently cannot use ‘NIAID’ for RoW-NI movements. Functionality for these users will be available in due course.

  8. Added new Additional Information code ‘OVR06’ to the CDS UK Trade Tariff, Appendix 4B.

  9. Codes NIAID, NIDOM, NIEXP, NIIMP and NIREM have been added to Table 2.

  10. Information for the Additional Information Statement Code 00600 has been amended.

  11. Information for the Additional Information Statement Code 00600 has been amended.

  12. This page has been updated to reflect changes to AI statement codes, specifically FZPER, GEN28, GEN30, GEN31, GEN36, TSPER and VAL4B.

  13. First published.