Its full name is the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, or HS for short.
From 1 99265438+1October1,China's import and export tariff has adopted the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of the World Customs Organization, which is a scientific and systematic international trade commodity classification system with six-digit coding, and is applicable to all aspects such as customs duties, statistics, production, transportation, trade control, inspection and quarantine.
Extended data:
HS adopts six-digit code, which divides all international trade commodities into 22 categories and 98 chapters. The following chapters are divided into order and subheadings. The first and second digits of the commodity code represent "chapter", the third and fourth digits represent "item", and the fifth and sixth digits represent "subtitle".
The first six digits are HS international standard codes, and HS has four tax headings of 124 1 and six subheadings of 5 1 13. Some countries have divided seven, eight and nine figures according to their own reality.
In HS, "categories" are basically divided by economic sectors, such as food, beverage, tobacco and alcohol, chemical industry and related industrial products, textile raw materials and products, and mechanical and electrical equipment. Transportation equipment is in the seventeenth category, and weapons and ammunition are in the nineteenth category.