HS related Recommendations are prepared by the Harmonized System Committee and presented to the WCO Council for approval. The WCO Council may also amend, replace or withdraw existing Recommendations.
For more information about the Recommendations related to the HS, download the information sheet: WCO Recommendations related to the Harmonized System Convention
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Insertion in National Statistical Nomenclatures of subheadings for Substances Controlled under the Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction (18 June 1996) (Amended 25 June 1999, 1 July 2006, 24 June 2011 and 14 July 2016)
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Insertion in National Statistical Nomenclatures of subheadings to facilitate the collection and comparison of data on the International Movement of Substances controlled by virtue of amendments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the ozone layer (1 July 2006) [ar]* (Amended 24 June 2011) [ru]
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Insertion in National Statistical Nomenclatures of subheadings to facilitate the monitoring and control of products specified in the Protocol concerning firearms covered by The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (29 June 2002) (Amended 24 June 2011) [ru]
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Recommendation of 1995 on the insertion in national statistical nomenclatures of subheadings to facilitate the collection and comparison of data on the international movement of substances controlled by virtue of amendments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer (20 June 1995) (Amended 24 June 2011) [ru]
- The application of Harmonized System Committee Decisions (30 June 2001) [ru]
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Insertion in National Statistical Nomenclatures of subheadings to Facilitate the Collection and Comparison of Trade Data on handmade products (7 July 2000) [ar]* [ru]
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Improvement of Tariff Classification work and related infrastructures (25 June 1998)
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Reporting of Trade Data to the United Nations Statistics Division (19 June 1997) [ru]
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Introduction of the programmes for binding pre-entry classification information (18 June 1996)
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The insertion in commercial invoices of the code number for the classification of goods in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (5 July 1989) [ru]
* WCO Instruments/Documents translated in Arabic by Saudi Customs