Integrating HS 2002 into ITS

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Integrating HS 2002 into ITS
ORGANISATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DEVELOPMENT
ÉCONOMIQUES
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND
DEVELOPMENT
STATISTICS DIRECTORATE INTERNATIONAL TRADE
STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC STATISTICS
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7150 codes
Nomenclature

• 6564 HS 2002 codes

586 special codes

• Special classification provisions
• Special transactions
• Estimations of missing declarations

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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.

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Conversion tables within ITS

• Classification by product

Classification by industry
HS 2002
ISIC Rev.3
HS 1996
HS 1988
SITC Rev.3
ISIC Rev.2
SITC Rev.2
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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
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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
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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)
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Difficulties

• 3. Combination of 12

HS 2002
HS 1996
252700
253040
253090
253090
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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