Transporting goods into the UK as a non-UK operator
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Advice for organisations and people using road transport operators based abroad to transport goods into, out of and within the UK.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Advice for organisations and people using road transport operators based abroad to transport goods into, out of and within the UK. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- EU operators transporting goods into the UK
- Bilateral transports
- Transit movements
- Cabotage
- Cabotage example
- Empty vehicle example
- Combined transport
- Triangular traffic solely using an EU Community Licence
- Car transporters
- ECMT permits
- Example
- Posting declarations
- Non-EU foreign operators transporting goods into the UK
- Bilateral permits for some non-EU foreign operators
- Permit-free arrangements
- Countries with which the UK does not have arrangements
Source and licence
Department for Transport
AttributionDepartment for Transport, ‘Transporting goods into the UK as a non-UK operator’ (updated 21 May 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026