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EU publishes table of WCO ENs, classification opinions and decisions

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On 11 November 2016, the  Official Journal published a communication [2016/C 415/01] with a table showing the Classification Decisions, Classification Opinions or amendments to the Explanatory Notes of the Nomenclature of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System, adopted by the Customs Cooperation Council [the legal name of the World Customs Organization] (CCC document No NC2237 — report of the 57th session of the HS Committee). Customs authorities shall revoke decisions relating to binding information from 11 November if they become incompatible with the interpretation of the customs nomenclature as a result of the international tariff measures indicated below:

Canada publishes Order adopting 2017 Harmonized System into the Customs Tariff

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On October 5, 2016, the Canada Gazette published the Order Amending the Schedule to the Cus­toms Tariff (Harmonized System, 2017 (SOR/2016-253, Sept. 23, 2016) (the “Order”) which adopts into Canada’s Customs Tariff the World Customs Organization (WCO) amendments to the Harmonized System nomenclature that will enter into force on January 1, 2017.

Lao PDR becomes 104th contracting party to Revised Kyoto Convention

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The WCO has reported that on 16 July 2016, at the 127th/128th Sessions of the Customs Co-operation Council (the official name of the WCO), the Secretary General of the WCO Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, in his capacity as the depository of the Convention, took receipt of the instruments of accession of Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention).

WCO releases revised Data Model

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  On 9, May 2016, the World Customs Organization (WCO) announced that it had released version 3.6.0 of the WCO Data Model. WCO Data Model, a collection of international standards on data and information required not only by Customs, but also by government agencies, developed with the objective of achieving a consensus on the manner in which data will be used in applying regulatory facilitation and controls in global trade. The Data Model contains data sets…

WCO – 57th Session of the Harmonized System Committee concludes

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  On 1 April 2016, the WCO announced that the WCO Harmonized System Committee (HSC) held its 57th Session from 9 to 18 March 2016 at the WCO headquarters in Brussels. More than 120 participants representing 61 Contracting Parties to the HS Convention, one WCO Member administration and five international organizations attended. The HSC took 326 classification decisions (including 305 decisions relating to pharmaceutical (INN) products in connection with the implementation of the WTO Agreement on…

WCO publishes Correlation Tables HS 2012 – 2017

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On 6 May, 2015, the WCO published tables correlating the 2012 and 2017 versions of the Harmonized System (HS) (Table I and Table II), as drawn up by the WCO Secretariat in accordance with instructions received from the Harmonized System Committee. The WCO website explains: Though these Correlation Tables were examined by the Harmonized System Committee, they are not to be regarded as constituting classification decisions taken by that Committee; they constitute a guide published…

Indonesia accedes to the Revised Kyoto Convention and becomes the 95th Contracting Party

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On 29 August 2014, the WCO announced that the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Brussels has sent the Secretary General of the WCO the instrument of accession of his country to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention – RKC). This act is the culmination of an extensive process which has allowed Indonesia to carry out a comparative analysis of its legislation with the provisions of…