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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1987

"AS MORE

SEMINARS HAVE BEEN

EXPECTED,

APPLICATIONS ARE ARRANGED IN EARLY JANUARY TO

ENTHUSIASTIC TRADERS, HE SAID.

THE HARMONISED

FOUR ADDITIONAL

ACCOMMODATE THE

SYSTEM WILL REPLACE THE CURRENT COMMODITY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM BASED ON THE STANDARD INTERNATIONAL TRADE CLASSIFICATION (SITC), FROM JANUARY 1 NEXT YEAR. THE NEW SYSTEM WILL ALSO BE ADOPTED BY MOST OF HONG KONG'S MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS FOR CUSTOMS TARIFF AND STATISTICAL PURPOSES.

THE SEMINARS WILL HELP IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS BETTER UNDERSTAND THE BASIC CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATION PRINCIPLES OF THE NEW SYSTEM, AND FAMILIARISE THEM WITH THE WAY TO FIND THE CORRECT COMMODITY CODES. DEMONSTRATIONS ON THE USE OF THE NEW HONG KONG IMPORTS AND EXPORTS CLASSIFICATION LIST (HARMONISED SYSTEM), WHICH CONTAINS THE DESCRIPTIONS AND CODES OF THE NEW SYSTEM, IN COMPLETING IMPORT/EXPORT DECLARATIONS WILL ALSO BE GIVEN.

"UNDER THE HK HS, THERE ARE ABOUT 5,500 EIGHT-DIGIT COMMODITY CODES TO REPRESENT PRECISELY DIFFERENT TYPES OF GOODS, WHILE IN THE CURRENT SITC-BASED SYSTEM THERE ARE ONLY 3,600 SIX-DIGIT SPOKESMAN SAID.

CODES,

THE

"THE NEW HONG KONG IMPORTS AND EXPORTS CLASSIFICATION LIST IS SYSTEMATICALLY DESIGNED, SO THAT LOOKING UP THE CORRECT IIK 113 CODE WILL NOT BE DIFFICULT, HE ADDED.

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THE CLASSIFICATION LIST CONTAINS, CLASSIFICATION OF COMMODITIES

BASED ON THE UK

AMONG

us,

OTHERS. AN ALPHABETICAL

A

LIST OF ARTICLES, AND A TABLE SHOWING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SITO CODES AND THE UK IS CODES.

SYSTEM.

A HANDBOOK HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO HELP USERS UNDERSTAND THE NEW

IT GIVES A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE HK HS AND THE CHANGES TO BE NOTED BY IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS WHEN SUBMITTING DECLARATIONS,

.

11 ALSO GIVES DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS ON THE 8IX GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES WELLC'H SERVE AS A SET OF CLASSIFICATION PRINCIPLES TO ENSURE UNIFORM LEGAL INTERPRETATION.

AND

"AS THERE WILL BE PRACTICAL EXAMPLES

EXERCISES ON CLASSIFICATION IN THE SEMINARS, PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING ALONG THE CLASSIFICATION LIST AND HANDBOOK, THE SPOKESMAN SAID,

EACH SESSION WILL LAST ONE AND A HALF HOURS AND MOST OF THEM WILL BE CONDUCTED IN CANTONESE. SOME SESSIONS HAVE BEEN SPRCIFICALLY SET ASIDE FOR DISCUSSING THE CLASSIFICATION OF TEXTILES AND TEXTILE PRODUCTS, AND MACHINERY, MECHANICAL APPLIANCES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, WHILE THE OTHER SESSIONS ARE FOR COMMODITIES IN GENERAL.

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