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The shippers in the UK will face major disruption from July 1 when the British Customs switches over to a new processing system, warn the head of a freight software company. The new system, an EU initiative, includes numerous new data elements and codes and item-level information. The UK is behind the rest of the EU in implementing it.

The current plans to implement the new regulations, based on the new harmonised SAD (Single Administrative Document), it is feared, could lead to a disaster as the freight forwarders grapple with unfamiliar Customs declaration and "largely untested software". The freight forwarders may have to demand much more precise information from the shippers, possibly at an early stage of shipping than is currently the case. The shipping lines and other carriers may refuse shipments where information is incomplete because they could be subject to fines, as airlines do when they land passengers with incomplete documents.

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