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Title: HTS Online Reference Tool


1
HTS Online Reference Tool
  • David Beck, Director, TATA
  • Paul Mussey , USITC Contractor
  • October 16, 2008

2
HTS Online Reference Tool - Overview
  • Current, accurate, and user-friendly access to
    the Harmonized Tariff Schedules of the United
    States (HTS)
  • A single source for information
  • For government, importers, brokers, carriers and
    the general public

3
Role of U.S. International Trade Commission
  • Built and managed by the ITC, the agency with the
    legal mandate to maintain the HTS
  • Hardware and programming at ITC
  • Direct links from ACE to the HTS Online Reference
    Tool

4
Functionality
  • HTS Online Reference Tool will provide
  • Complete legal text and notes
  • The most current U.S. tariff rates
  • Interactive access and searches

4
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Links to CROSS system
  • Direct links to classification rulings
  • Users will be able to jump directly from a
    specific HTS item to the Customs Ruling Online
    Search System (CROSS) for determinations on
    product classification for that HTS item
  • Users will be able to access the most current
    ruling, rather than having to continually update
    their own notations

6
Links to Chapters 98 99 via footnotes
  • Direct links to footnotes
  • The links will allow users to move from the
    footnote number directly to the text of the
    footnote itself, and back
  • Direct links to HTS Chapters 98 99
  • The links will enable a user to move from the
    footnote reference in Chapters 1-97 directly to
    the Chapter 98 or 99 provision

7
Searching and finding
  • Quick searches
  • By word, word combinations or HTS number
  • Jump to tariff rate information
  • Thesaurus capability
  • Users will be able to use synonyms and common
    terms
  • Thesaurus will be enriched continually to reflect
    common terminologyfor example, users may enter
    the word cars (common term) to find motor
    vehicles (HTS term)

8
New Software for Speed
  • Using XML software
  • Allows ITC and CBP to convert HTS quickly to
    formats which are needed for computerized
    operations at the border and elsewhere
  • Allows ITC to streamline the production of the
    HTS and update for Free Trade Agreements and
    staged tariff rate reductions more quickly

9
Timeline and Demo
  • Targeted implementation
  • HTS Online Reference Tool functional and on line
    by the beginning of 2009
  • We will demonstrate the product and then take
    your questions
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