Customs Code is HS Code, short for Harmonized System of Coding.
Its full name is the International Convention for Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (International Convention for Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System) referred to as the Harmonized System (Harmonized System, abbreviated as HS)
In June 1983, the Customs Co-operation Council (now known as the World Customs Organization) under the auspices of the development of a customs, statistics, import and export management and international trade-related parties *** with the use of commodity classification and coding system.
Expanded Information
I. Use of HS Codes
1. HS Codes "Harmonization" covers the two major classification and coding systems, namely, the Customs Co-operation Council Tariff Commodity Classification List (CCCN) and the United Nations Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). The HS Code "Harmonized" covers the CCCN and the SITC (Standard International Trade Classification), which are systematic and multi-purpose international trade commodity classification systems.
2. In addition to being used for customs tariff rules and trade statistics, it provides a set of usable international trade commodity classification system for the billing of transported commodities, statistics, computerized data transmission, simplification of international trade documents and the utilization of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) tariff codes.
3, from January 1, 1992, China's import and export tariffs using the World Customs Organization "Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System" (HS), which is a scientific and systematic international trade commodities classification system, the use of six-digit code for tax rules, statistics, production, transportation, trade control, inspection and quarantine and other aspects.
4, China's import and export tariff rules using ten-digit code, the first eight equivalent to the use of HS code, the last two are our subheadings, which is based on the principles and methods of HS classification, according to China's imports and exports of commodities in the actual situation of the extension of the two-digit code.
Two, HS code implementation
1, HS uses six-digit code, all international trade commodities into 22 categories, 98 chapters. The following chapter is divided into subheadings and subheadings.
2, the commodity code, the first two digits on behalf of the "chapter", the third and fourth digits on behalf of the "eye" (Heading), the fifth and sixth digits on behalf of the "subheadings "(Subheading).
3, the first six digits is the HS international standard code, HS has 1241 four-digit tax headings, 5113 six-digit subheadings. Some countries have divided the seventh, eighth and ninth digits according to their own reality.
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