On the new wording of the Unified Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union
On January 1, 2022, the seventh edition of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), which is the international basis for the unified Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union (CN FEA EEU) enters into force.
The publication of the HS 2022 is the result of five-year cycle of comprehensive review of the nomenclature conducted by the World Customs Organization (WCO) on an regular basis. According to the WCO, the new edition of the HS contains more than 350 series of amendments caused by changes in the nature and structure of world trade, social and environmental issues of a global nature, which can be divided as follows:
- Agriculture, food processing and tobacco industry - 77
- Chemical industry - 58
- Forest industry - 31
- Textile industry - 21
- Metallurgy - 27
- Engineering industry - 63
- Transport - 22
- Other industries – 52.
When compared with the current Nomenclature, that is, the Nomenclature 2017, it may be said that 8 new commodity items have appeared.
New items:
03.09 Fine flour and rough grinding, fish pellets
24.04 New tobacco products
38.27 GFP mixtures
84.85 3D printers
85.24 Modules with a flat display panel
85.49 Waste materials and scrap of electrical and electronic products
88.06 Drones
88.07 Parts of aircraft
Deleted items:
81.07 Cadmium
88.03 Parts of aircrafts.
The Eurasian Economic Commission actively carried out work on bringing the unified Commodity nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity and the Common Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into conformity with the international framework during 2020-2021. On September 14, 2021, the Council of the Commission approved a new version of the documents by decision No. 80.
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