Helping our membership overcome challenges and identify the support they need from external agencies and governmental departments is key to the ESCUK’s Mission Statement.
Here you will find links to organisations that have the specialist knowledge to help with important issues such as international trade and exports, funding, legal problems, health & safety, standards, and a whole lot more.
Scroll through the list, but if you cannot find what you need, contact us and we will steer you in the right direction.
GOVERNMENT ADVICE
- Sign up for the Trader Support Service
- Existing UK trade agreements with non-EU countries
- The Border Operating Model
- UK Trade Tariff: community and common transit outwards
- Check UK trade tariffs
- Prepare to export goods from Great Britain to the EU
- Prepare to import goods from the EU to Great Britain
- European Commission - Exporting from the EU - what you need to know
- European Commission - EU Tariffs
- Trading and Moving Goods in and out of Northern Ireland
- Import goods from outside the EU: step by step
- Check if you can use transit to move goods to the EU and Common Transit countries
- Apply to use simplified declarations for imports
- Customs Declaration Service - GOV.UK
- Customs Declaration Service
- Get someone to deal with customs for you
- Placing manufactured goods on the EU market
- Traveling Abroad on Business
- Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return
- Your Europe - VAT rules and rates
- Using the UKCA mark
- CE marking
- How to comply with REACH chemical regulations
- Using personal data in your business or other organisation after the transition period
- UK points based immigration system: an introduction for employers
- Employment Information - The way you hire from the EU has changed
- British Exporters Association
OFFICIAL REGULATORS
OTHER USEFUL CONTACTS
- Applegate UK Directory - Engineering Companies
- British Standards Institution (BSI)
- Croner - Business Support
- Engineering Capacity - Marketplace for Engineering Sub Contractors
- Export Partners UK (TAP lobbying group)
- Genesis Initiative
- Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade
- Machinery Locator
- Machinery Market
- Make UK (Formerly EEF)
- Manufacturing Technologies Association
- Qimtek – Subcontracting Leads
- Talent Retention Solutions (Engineering Recruitment)
UK GOVERNMENT
- 10 Downing Street
- Business Ratepayers - Information
- Cabinet Office
- Companies House On-Line
- Customs & Excise
- Department for Education
- Department for Business and Trade
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Foreign & Commonwealth Development Office
- Government Office for Science
- H.M. Treasury
- Intellectual Property Office
- National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage Rates
- Office of National Statistics
- Valuation Office Agency (Rates)