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).

Known error workarounds may apply to this area of the instructions.

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 2412 MarchMay 2023 + show all updates
  1. Additional Information code NIAID updated to reflect that it is only applicable to GB-NI movements classed as “at risk”. It is not applicable to ROW-NI movements.

  2. Appendix 4B has been updated with new and amended AI Codes. ECONR is only usable on imports, and the requirement for a vehicle ID has been removed from RRS01. New AI Codes GENDG, GENHV, GENLA, GENMG, and GENSG have been added.

  3. Updated 'Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or customs clearance requests' to remove Additional Information Codes ‘CCLFC’ and ‘CCLFL’ to reflect their earlier withdrawal from use.

  4. Three codes — SDSBF, SDSTS and SDSIP have been added to Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or customs clearance requests.

  5. Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or customs clearance requests” has been updated to remove codes FBK01 and FBK02.

  6. Two amendments have been made to ensure that the ‘Import’, ‘Export’ or ‘Both’ descriptors are spelt out in full. No technical requirements have been altered.

  7. The following 4 new national AI codes have been introduced and are now in Appendix 4B: BFAPP, CPAPP, NCHAP and UVC01.

  8. Additional Information code EUPRF has been added to the code list in 'Appendix 4B: National Codes which may be declared on customs declarations or clearance requests', for use on Northern Ireland declarations when there is a mismatch between Great Britain and EU preferences.

  9. Guidance on using AI code OVR01 has been updated in Appendix 4B, to provide completion instructions when using Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA) with a manual duty calculation.

  10. Additional Information Code GEN86 has been corrected in Appendix 4B, to show that it is intended for use on both import and export declarations.

  11. '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.

  12. 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).

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

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

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

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

  17. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  23. First published.