INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

of June 14, 1983

About harmonized commodity description and coding system

Preamble

Contracting parties of this Convention drafted under the direction of Customs Cooperation Council

wishing to promote international trade,

wishing to simplify collection, comparison and the analysis of the statistical data in particular relating to international trade

wishing to reduce the expenses caused by the repeated description, classification and coding of goods upon their transition from one classification system to another in the course of international trade and to promote standardization of the foreign trade documentation and transfer of statistical data,

in view of that changes in the production technology of goods and structure of international trade cause need of entering of essential changes into the Convention on the Nomenclature for classification of goods for customs tariffs signed in Brussels on December 15, 1950

considering also that the extent of disaggregation required by the governments and business circles for use in the customs and statistical purposes was beyond what is provided by the Nomenclature attached to the above-mentioned Convention

recognizing importance of exact and comparable data for conducting the international trade negotiations,

considering that it is reasonable to use the Harmonized system for transit fares and statistics of cargo transportation different types of transport,

considering that the Harmonized system is intended for perhaps wider use in other commodity descriptions and coding systems,

in view of that the Harmonized system is designed to promote establishment of perhaps closer interrelation between foreign trade statistics and statistics of production,

considering that between the Harmonized system and the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) of the United Nations the close interrelation shall be kept,

including desirable satisfaction of the requirements stated above by means of application combined tarifno - the statistical nomenclature suitable for use by the interested participants connected with international trade

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