Environmental goods and the Harmonized System

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• Environmental goods and the Harmonized System
• Izaak Wind
• Deputy Director - WCO

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS

• 120 Contracting Parties
• 200 countries / economic and Customs unions
  using the HS
• Over 98 of world trade

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS

• Classification as presented
• End use
• Process and production methods

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS HS structure
(1)

• 4 digit headings
• 96 Chapters
• 21 Sections
• Chapters 98 and 99

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS HS structure
(2)
Section
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter
Heading
Heading
Heading
Subheading
Subheading
Subheading
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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS HS structure
(3)

• Section and Chapter notes Integral part of HS
• Subheading notes

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How to
accommodate

• Description of goods or groups of goods
• Physical and objective criteria
• End-use
• Process and production methods

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How we
accommodated

• CITES
• Ozone
• Rotterdam Convention

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How we
accommodated CITES (HS 2002)

• 01.06 Other live animals.
• - Mammals
• 0106.11 -- Primates
• 0106.12 -- Whales, dolphins and porpoises
  (mammals of the order Cetacea) manatees and
  dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia)
• 0106.19 -- Other
• 0106.20 - Reptiles (including snakes and turtles)
• - Birds
• 0106.31 -- Birds of prey
• 0106.32 -- Psittaciformes (including parrots,
  parakeets, macaws and cockatoos)
• 0106.39 -- Other
• 0106.90 -Other

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How we
accommodated Ozone (HS 2002)

• Separate identification of
• Pure chemicals (Chapters 28 and 29)
• Mixtures (heading 38.24)

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How we
accommodated Rotterdam Convention (HS 2007)

• Separate identification of mercury compounds
• New heading 28.52
• Precedence over other headings

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How to
provide for environmental goods (1)

• Description of goods or group of goods (objective
  characteristics)
• Identification at
• Heading level
• Subheading level

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WTO - WORKSHOP ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS How to
provide for environmental goods (2)

• Until HS amendments
• Identification at national level
• Non-uniformity
• Advice HS Committee

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WORKSHOPENVIRONMENTAL GOODSConclusions

• Identification
• HS classification indispensable
• World-wide uniform application

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WORKSHOPENVIRONMENTAL GOODS

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