Designated land, sea and air ports for buying and selling or transferring CITES-listed endangered species

You may solely import (herald) or export (take out) Conference on Worldwide Commerce in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) specimens via designated land, sea and air ports within the UK.

A specimen is a residing or useless animal or plant, or any of its elements, or an merchandise made out of these.

CITES-designated factors of entry and exit

There are customs workplaces on the following factors of entry and exit designated for CITES commerce.

You should utilize these airports:

• Belfast Worldwide
• Birmingham Worldwide
• Bristol Worldwide
• Cardiff Worldwide
• East Midlands
• Edinburgh
• Gatwick
• Glasgow Worldwide
• Glasgow Prestwick
• Humberside
• London Heathrow
• London Luton
• London Stansted
• Manchester
• Newcastle
• Southampton Worldwide

You should utilize these ports:

• Belfast Seaport
• Dover
• Eurotunnel
• Felixstowe
• Fishguard
• Harwich worldwide
• Heysham
• Holyhead
• Hull
• Immingham
• Larne
• Liverpool Seaforth Container Terminal
• London Gateway (Port of London)
• Pembroke
• Plymouth
• Poole
• Portsmouth Worldwide Port
• Southampton ABP
• Teesport
• Tilbury (Port of London)

Postal hubs

Postal hubs have been designated at:

• Coventry Worldwide Parcel Submit Hub
• Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC)

These can solely be utilized by Royal Mail, postal courier companies and Border Power to examine CITES parcels. Postal hubs can’t be utilized by the general public.

Learn how you can import and export CITES specimens by put up.

Transferring stay animals and animal merchandise

The next CITES factors of entry or exit have border management posts (BCPs) designated to deal with stay animals and perform CITES, in addition to sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks.

Transferring CITES specimens via Humberside airport

Should you’re transporting CITES specimens via Humberside airport you have to inform Border Power not less than 24 hours earlier than you’re because of arrive. Contact Border Power by:

Phone: +44 (0)300 106 5302
E mail: BFImminghamFAST@homeoffice.gov.uk

Transferring CITES specimens via Belfast Seaport

Should you’re transporting stay animals via Belfast Seaport you have to inform Border Power Belfast not less than 24 hours earlier than you’re because of arrive to e-book an appointment. Should you name throughout workplace hours you’ll normally be seen inside the hour.

The workplace opening hours are Monday to Sunday, 9am to 4pm. You will need to enter the Border Power Belfast processing space no later than 3:30pm.

Belfast Seaport deal with:

Phone: +44 (0)3000 738 256
E mail: bfportteam@homeoffice.gov.uk

Transferring CITES specimens via the Port of Dover

Should you’re transferring CITES specimens via Dover port you’ll have to current your CITES documentation to Border Power for endorsement at Dover Western Docks.

Dover Western Docks deal with:

Transferring CITES specimens via Eurotunnel

Importing via Eurotunnel

To import CITES specimens into the UK via Eurotunnel, examine the steering for buying and selling or transferring CITES-listed specimens via UK ports and airports.

Exporting via Eurotunnel

To export CITES specimens from the UK via Eurotunnel you possibly can current your CITES paperwork to Border Power at Ebbsfleet or at one other appropriate designated level of entry and exit sea port. Discover a record of appropriate ports within the part ‘CITES-designated factors of entry and exit’.

Ebbsfleet deal with:

How one can entry the Ebbsfleet inland border facility.

The Border Power workplace has a 24 hour service, Monday to Sunday.

Phone: +44 (0)300 1060 732
E mail: doverinternationaltrade@homeoffice.gov.uk

You may contact APHA for assist with buying and selling or transferring endangered animals or vegetation listed beneath CITES at wildlife.licensing@apha.gov.uk.