UK Asks Traders Not to Use Special Characters in License Applications
The U.K. last week alerted traders that the country’s Customs Declaration Service currently can’t accept certain “special and diacritic characters,” including percent signs, brackets, pound signs, letters with accent signs, and more. The country is asking traders not to use…
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those characters in their license applications “until the issue has been resolved” in the spring of 2025. If traders already have approved or pending license applications with those characters, they should contact the U.K. government so the license can be reissued or amended.