Continuity of Import and Export Trade Statistics After Implementation of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System: Cross Reference Tables: TSUSA to HTS/HTS to TSUSA. Annexes I and II. Documentation

摘要

In 1980, the U.S. began development of a new import tariff schedule based on the then emerging Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding system (HS). A definitive version named the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) was published in December 1987. The HTS is expected to be implemented on January 1, 1989, replacing the Tariff Schedules of the United States, Annotated (TSUSA). The HTS uses the HS as its core structure and then further delineates product detail. USITC Publication 2051, Continuity of Import and Export Trade Statistics After Implementation of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding system provides the international trade community with two different sets of information which may be of use in maintaining the continuity of import and export data by 'bridging' the old systems with the new HS-based ones. Publication 2051 was issued in two parts. The first part was published in January 1988 and consisted of a short narrative section explaining the basic purpose of the report and two annexes (Annex I and II). Annex I is a cross-reference table between 8-digit HTS subheadings and 7-digit TSUSA numbers.