Amendments to the HS Nomenclature that will enter into force on 1 January 2017.
The WCO has published the accepted amendments to the Harmonized System (HS) Nomenclature that will enter into force on 1 January 2017. It includes 233 sets of amendments, divided as follows : agricultural sector 85; chemical sector 45; wood sector 13; textile sector 15; base metal sector 6; machinery sector 25; transport sector 18; other sectors 26.
Environmental and social issues of global concern are the major feature of the HS 2017 amendments. The majority of these changes to the HS have been broached by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).
This has been excerpted from a January 2015 announcement by the World Customs Organization and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/en/media/newsroom/2015/january/~/link.aspx?_id=24150E94D00747EF9B7429DF096AD556&_z=z