Customs classification can be challenging. Try your luck with our guided classification challenge and compare your results with the official solution.
Are you prepared and willing to take on the challenge of classifying this particular product? Why don't you propose this as a challenge for your team, encouraging them to brainstorm and devise a solution collectively?
We would like to provide you with a comprehensive blueprint outlining the steps you can take to effectively support your team or yourself in finding the correct commodity code. This blueprint will guide you systematically, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in your search. So, let's begin by ensuring you have a comprehensive set of support tools available to assist you throughout the process.
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Step 1: Get a good description of the product
Customs classification is a journey of discovery. Start with answering these fundamental questions:
What is the product that I am looking at?
What are the necessary characteristics that I need to know about?
What is the product used for?
What is the commercial description vs. what it actually is?
What about some technical features, length, thickness etc?
For this product, the answers are:
- Blades, made of stainless steel, of a width of 40 mm, with lateral notches and a hole in the centre. The blades are presented in packages of 10 pieces.
- The blades are designed as spare blades for glass scrapers.
- Glass scrapers are hand tools used in various applications, including cutting, scraping and removing substances such as paint, glue, labels, stickers, and dirt from surfaces such as windows, walls, tiles, floors, countertops, glass, and ovens. Based on their characteristics, the glass scrapers can be used in the household or by professionals (for example, professional painters).
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Step 2: Build your argument, grounded in law
Start with an HS section (the Roman Numbers). Which one does this product fall into?
Look at the GIR/GRIs and think about which ones could apply in this case? 1 & 6 is a given, any others?
Get your support tools ready. Have you got the Section and chapter notes handy? Have you got access to the national explanatory notes of your country? What about the WCO classification explanatory notes? What about BTI? Case Law?
Next, consider GIR 1 and find possible competing headings and try to unravel them with careful consideration of the section and heading notes. Use all the tools, including exclusions and exceptions, to support your case.
Consider any other GIR rule you think is appropriate here
Look at specific rules of your national tariff, like additional notes and subheading rules for numberings past 6 digits.
Draft and fine-tune your justification and conclude by determining the article.
Step 3: Write your justification
There is no fixed rule, but it should clearly answer the question: Why is this code correct and give reasons backed up by the rules of classification? The geekier, the better.
Here is an example:
Classification is determined by general rules X and X for the interpretation of the Harmonised System of Classification as published by the WCO, version of year 20XX, and (insert name of national tariff).
We considered the following Notes and wordings of HS/commodity codes:
note XX and xx to Section XX
The wording of HS codes XXXX, XXXX
National Tariff commodity codes: XXXX XXXX
The articles are produced in/by .... (see note XX to Section XX). Considering their xxx character the articles are to be considered as xxx. In addition, note xxx to Section xxx classifies Product A like Product B in that section. Classification under heading XXXX is excluded, because (see also the Harmonized System Explanatory Note to heading XXXX (X) and the Explanatory note to the National Tariff XXXX ). Consequently, the articles are to be classified under National Code XXXX XX XXas a xxx Now it is up to you :-) Can you try to find the 6-digit code for the WCO and the eight-digit code for the EU (or your country?) YOUR ANSWER IS __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Solution
Our answer is published here, with detailed explanations https://www.customsmanager.info/all-news/categories/customs-classification
(search for the name of the product)
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More information and links
GIRs: The Rules Customs Read When It Approves Your Import
GIR in Customs Classification, this expression is the talk of each and every seminar within customs. But what GIRs are exactly?
Struggle to classify? Read the WCO Explanatory Notes Here
Access the WCO Explanatory Notes 2022 and previous versions to assist you with your customs classification efforts.
Classification: Ultimate Guide to Footwear & Shoes HS Codes
Essential Guidance for any company importing or exporting footwear and parts of footwear to find the HS code
Course: Tariff and Customs Classification
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This course develops the competencies that professionals need to deal with all aspects of tariff and classification of goods, including HS code determination, application, validation, and usage of tariffs and online databases, GIRs and ATR (BTIs). (Course ID: OC03)
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