What is HS in customs declaration?

HS in the customs declaration refers to the Harmonized System of Commodity Names and Codes, referred to as "HS" for short. It refers to the multi-purpose international trade commodity classification catalogue based on the former Customs Cooperation Council commodity classification catalogue and standard international trade classification catalogue, and coordinated with various international commodity classification catalogues.

HS was officially implemented on 1988 65438+ 10/day, and revised every four years 1 time. More than 200 countries and regions in the world have used HS, and more than 90% of the global trade goods are classified by HS. It provides a set of practical international trade commodity classification system in settlement, statistics, computer data transmission, international trade documents simplification and the use of general preferential tax codes.

major function

1, HS coding "harmonization" covers two major classification coding systems: CCCN and SITC, which is a systematic and multi-purpose international trade commodity classification system.

2. Besides being used for customs tariff and trade statistics, it also provides an available international trade commodity classification system for invoicing, statistics, computer data transmission, simplification of international trade documents and use of general preferential tax codes.

3. China's import and export tariff adopts the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS for short) of the World Customs Organization, which is a scientific and systematic international trade commodity classification system with six-digit codes and is applicable to customs duties, statistics, production, transportation, trade control, inspection and quarantine, etc.

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