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HS Tariff Code

geography.transportation.hs_code

World Customs Organization Harmonized System code for classifying traded products. 6 digits at HS level, up to 10 digits for national sub-headings. May include dot separators between groups.

Try a value

HS Tariff Code's rule accepts it.

Reads it as 8471.30

Use it

Shell
finetype infer -i '8471.30' --mode column
# → geography.transportation.hs_code
DuckDB
SELECT ft_infer('8471.30');
-- → 'geography.transportation.hs_code'
Cast template: {col} is your column
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Casts to
VARCHAR

Pattern

Regular expression
^\d{4}\.?\d{2}(\.?\d{2}){0,2}$
ValueLengthShape
8471.307matches
6110.20.2010matches
0901.11.00.1013matches
8517.127matches
3004.90.9210matches
8471.36rejected: one character short

In Meridian's datasets

Background

Origin

The Harmonized System is a multipurpose international product nomenclature developed by the World Customs Organization.[1] The Harmonized System came into effect in 1988.[2] The Harmonized System comprises more than 5,000 commodity groups, each identified by a six-digit code.[1] The World Customs Organization's HS Committee prepares amendments updating the Harmonized System every 5 to 6 years.[1]

The Harmonized System is organised into 21 Sections, which are subdivided into 96 Chapters.[2] In a six-digit HS code, the first two digits give the Chapter, the next two the heading and the last two the subheading.[2] The 2022 edition of the Harmonized System has 1,228 headings and 5,612 subheadings.[2]

Parties to the Harmonized System are permitted to subdivide the nomenclature beyond six digits.[2] The Harmonized System is used by more than 200 countries and economies as a basis for their customs tariffs.[1] The Harmonized System is also used for the collection of international trade statistics.[1]

Use

The European Union's Combined Nomenclature is a further development of the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System nomenclature.[3] A Combined Nomenclature entry has an 8-digit code number followed by a description and a duty rate.[3] For US exports, products are classified under Schedule B, administered by the U.S. Census Bureau.[4]

In Canada, the international six-digit HS root was extended to 8 digits for exports and 10 digits for imports.[5] Statistics Canada notes that the 10-digit HS code for imports is not an extension of the 8-digit HS code for exports.[5] Treat only the first six digits as comparable across countries, and keep the digits beyond them tied to the country and the direction of trade they came from. (Meridian's view)

Where you'll meet it

The 2017 edition of Schedule B had approximately 9,000 ten-digit classification codes.[6]

Sources

  1. [1]World Customs Organizationorganisation
  2. [2]Harmonized System - Wikipediasecondary source
  3. [3]Combined Nomenclature - Taxation and Customs Union - European Commissiondocumentation
  4. [4]Harmonized System (HS) Codesdocumentation
  5. [5]Canadian International Merchandise Trade Web Application: Commodity classificationdocumentation
  6. [6]Introductionorganisation

How it's detected

HS is maintained by the World Customs Organization. First 6 digits are internationally standardised; additional digits are country-specific.

Schema

https://meridian.online/schemas/geography.transportation.hs_code · Frictionless type string

finetype taxonomy geography.transportation.hs_code -o json-schema

Aliases

harmonized_systemtariff_code

Type Registry