The UK will continue to operate a tobacco track and trace system after the transition period and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is making the minimum necessary changes to minimise the impact on businesses.

If your business has facilities in, or trans-loads tobacco products in Northern Ireland you will need to submit data for the movement of, or financial transactions relating to, tobacco products in Northern Ireland to the new UK gateway and the EU system.

If your business does not have facilities in, or trans-loads tobacco products in Northern Ireland you will need to submit data for the movement of, or financial transactions relating to, tobacco products in Great Britain to the new UK gateway instead of the EU system.

Actions you need to take

Submitting data to the UK gateway and the EU system

You need to make arrangements with your scanning equipment solution provider to update your scanning equipment by 1 January as follows:

• All economic operators - you need to amend the URL endpoint for your scanning equipment to allow you to submit all UK data (i.e. Northern Ireland and Great Britain data) to the new UK gateway. The URL endpoint for the UK gateway live environment is ukgateway.delarue.com
• Economic operators that submit tracking data for tobacco product in Northern Ireland – you also need to amend the URL endpoint for your scanning equipment to simultaneously submit data to the UK gateway and EU system.

The Track and Trace Onboarding Pack explains some actions you need to take before the end of the transition period to ensure that you can connect to and submit data to the new UK gateway.

Further information.