Integrating HS 2002 into ITS

1. OECD OCDE ORGANISATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DEVELOPMENT ÉCONOMIQUES Integrating HS 2002 into ITS ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS DIRECTORATE – INTERNATIONAL TRADE & STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC STATISTICS 1

2. Nomenclature 7150 codes 6564 HS 2002 codes 586 special codes: • Special classification provisions • Special transactions • Estimations of missing declarations

3. Time schedule • Dec. 02: creation of the HS 2002 standard nomenclature; • May 03: addition of special codes; • July-August 03: correspondence tables with older classifications; • Sep.-Nov. 03: tests and checks; • December 03: migration into the production database.

4. Conversion tables within ITS Classification by industry HS 2002 Classification by product ISIC Rev.3 HS 1996 HS 1988 SITC Rev.3 SITC Rev.2 ISIC Rev.2

5. Conversion methodology: correspondence at all digit level HS 2002 HS 1996 6-digit 6-digit 4-digit 4-digit 2-digit 2-digit No aggregation in older classifications

6. Difficulties 1. A basic level is not allocated to the same heading or chapter: HS 1996 HS 2002 382490 300670 Consequence: 300670 must be subtracted from HS 96 codes 3006 and 30

7. Difficulties 2. There is no one to one correlation: HS 2002 HS 1996 010111 010110 010120 Consequence: correlation is done at the higher level (0101 in this case)

8. Difficulties 3. Combination of 1&2: HS 2002 HS 1996 252700 253090 253040 253090

9. Implication Different practise from the UNSD which correlates at the basic level and aggregates in the older classifications Necessary harmonisation for the common trade database project