Final State Rules for NCTS5 - Changes from 21 January 2025

The following changes come in from today, 21st January 2025:

• Office of Incident – incidents that happen during the goods movement should now be reported in real-time to the nearest customs Office of Incident. Details of the

incident will be recorded as they happen by Border Force/Customs Officials, directly into NCTS5, as opposed to the current process of waiting until arrival at the Office of

Destination.

• Commodity codes – will be a mandatory requirement for every goods item on the declaration. You will need to enter the first 6-digits (the harmonised system code) of

the commodity code into your transit declaration. For Northern Ireland movements you can also add the additional 2-digits (the combined nomenclature code) which is

matched against the EU TARIC database.

• New data fields – NCTS5 Final State introduces some new data fields and information will now be mandatory instead of optional (for example, the commodity

code field).

• Multiple house consignments - will enable a transit user who uses software to send multiple grouped items with more than one consignor and consignee within the

same declaration, such as groupage loads. This new functionality increases the overall goods items in a declaration to 1,999, by using multiple house consignments.

• Pre-lodged amendments – NCTS5 Final State will provide functionality to amend pre-lodged declarations before they are finally accepted, and the Movement

Reference Number (MRN) issued.

• Removal of the mandatory requirement to carry a paper Transit Accompanying Document (TAD) – drivers will no longer need to carry the paper TAD as a

mandatory requirement. For goods released into Transit by Border Force at an Inland Border Facility or border location, the TAD will no longer be printed unless

specifically requested by the driver.

• Electronic presentation of Movement Reference Number (MRN) — this allows for presentation of the MRN by electronic means. At GVMS border locations, this is done

by including the Transit MRN in the Goods Movement Reference (GMR).

• Business continuity process/fallback – the Single Administrative Document (SAD/C88) will no longer be used in the fallback process if the system is unavailable.

Instead, a blank TAD can be printed (if available) from user software or printed from the Transit Manual Supplement.