HMRC System Maintenance – CDS Planned Outage

Due to scheduled maintenance on the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), the CDS service will be unavailable to all users on Thursday 10th August 2023, 10pm to 11:10pm.

Declarations submitted during this timeframe will be processed at the end of the downtime.

Creating, updating, or embarking a goods movement reference (GMR) that are linked to CDS could be affected during the times listed.  For guidance on GVMS please refer to the GVMS service availability and issues page.

HMRC apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.