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Parties are permitted to subdivide the HS Nomenclature beyond 6-digits and add their own Legal Notes according to their own tariff and statistical requirements. Parties often set their customs duties at the 8-digit "tariff code" level. Statistical suffixes are often added to the 8-digit tariff code for a total of 10 digits.
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), formerly the Central Board of Excise and Customs, is a statutory body under the Department of Revenue, Government of India. It oversees the administration of indirect taxes , including customs duties, excise duties, and the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Global map of countries by tariff rate, applied, weighted mean, all products (%), 2021, according to World Bank. This is a list of countries by tariff rate. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. Import duty refers to taxes levied on imported goods, capital and ...
When the DFTP scheme was introduced in 2008, India committed to eliminating customs duties on over 85% of tariff lines (for items in the Harmonized System 6-digit level of classification), reducing duties on the basis of a prescribed margin of preference [a] for 9% of tariff lines, and maintaining duties on the remaining 6% tariff lines over a period of 5 years.
India is a member of World Customs Organization (WCO) since 1971. It was originally using 6-digit HSN codes to classify commodities for Customs and Central Excise. Later Customs and Central Excise added two more digits to make the codes more precise, resulting in an 8 digit classification.
A customs officer in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol checks the luggage of an incoming traveler. Vienna Convention road sign for customs. Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.
Full Text of the General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System (World Customs Organization) "What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About:Tariff Classification" (United States Customs and Border Protection)
The codes and the descriptions of goods established on the basis of the combined nomenclature shall replace those established on the basis of the nomenclatures of the Common Customs Tariff and the Nimexe. It is established on the basis of the Harmonized System. The combined nomenclature shall comprise : (a) the harmonized system nomenclature ...