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Friday, December 28, 1973

NEW IMPORTS AND EXPORTS CLASSIFICATION LIST

A new edition of the Hong Kong Imports and Exports Classification

List will come into force as from January 1, 1974.

The new edition will incorporate the existing 1971 edition, as

amended in 1973, as well as certain new amendments.

The classification list is made up of two parts, a countries list

and a commodities list. The commodities list is based on the United Nations

Standard International Trade Classification, Revised (S.I.T.C. Revised)

and sets out the classified description of some 2,530 items.

clothing.

The new amendmente affect mainly items of plastic materials and

These amendments are necessary in view of the importance of the

trade in the items concerned and of the demand for separate classification.

This will make it easier to compare the Hong Kong trade statistics with

those of trading partners, and will therefore, enhance the value of Hong

Kong's trade statistics.

Importers and exporters are urged to ensure that the staff responsible

for completing trade declaration forms become fully conversant with the

amendments as they affect the commodities with which they deal.

Copies of the new edition will go on sale from January 6 at $6

per copy at the Government Publications Centre at the Star Ferry Concourse,

Hong Kong.

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