Errata and Amendments

Errata

  • Errata N° 1 (May 2006)
  • Errata N° 2 (May 2007)
  • Errata N° 3 (December 2008)

    • Amendments to the HS Nomenclature effective from 1 January 2007

    The WCO has published the agreed amendments to the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature that will enter into force on 1 January 2007.

    This is the third major revision of the Harmonized System since it was approved by the Council in 1983 and it includes 354 sets of amendments. The main sources of the amendments made to the Nomenclature are :

    • Technological progress;
    • Change in trade patterns;
    • Clarification of texts to ensure uniform application;
    • Adaptation of the Nomenclature to reflect trade practice; and
    • Amendments related to the social and environmental fields, i.e., new subheadings to facilitate the monitoring and control of :
      • certain species of fish;
      • products of bamboo (INBAR (FAO))
      • pesticides (Rotterdam Convention)
      • ozone-depleting substances (Montreal Protocol)
      • products containing asbestos

    Consequential Amendment following the HS 2007 Amendments

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    AMENDEMENT DE LA NOMENCLATURE

    AMENDMENT TO THE NOMENCLATURE

    CHAPITRE 70.

    Note 1 de sous-positions.

    Remplacer “7013.21, 7013.31” par “7013.22, 7013.33, 7013.41”.

    CHAPTER 70.

    Subheading Note 1.

    Delete “7013.21, 7013.31” and substitute “7013.22, 7013.33, 7013.41”.

    Note :

    This amendment to Subheading Note 1 to Chapter 70 concerns an omission and could enter into force on the 1st of January 2007 by applying the corrigendum procedure approved by the Council at its 105th/106th Sessions in June 2005.