The International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is referred to as the Harmonized System.
It is the commodity classification and coding system of customs, statistics, import and export management and international trade parties under the auspices of the Customs Cooperation Council (now the World Customs Organization) in June 1983.
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Harmonized system code "Harmonized" covers two major classification coding systems: CCCN and SITC, which is a systematic and multi-purpose international trade commodity classification system.
It is not only used for customs tariff and trade statistics, but also provides a set of available international trade commodity classification system in invoicing, statistics, computer data transmission, simplification of international trade documents and utilization of general preferential tax numbers.
From 1 99265438+1October1,China's import and export tariff has adopted the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) of the World Customs Organization, which is a scientific and systematic international trade commodity classification system with six-digit codes, and is suitable for customs duties, statistics, production, transportation, trade control and so on. At present, the system is global.
China's import and export tariff adopts ten-digit code, the first eight digits are equivalent to HS code, and the last two digits are Chinese subtitle, which is a two-digit code expanded according to the principle and method of HS classification and the actual situation of China's import and export commodities.
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