The TN VED classifier has mainly found its application in customs activities. In our country, this classifier has gone from the USSR to the Customs Union.
Purposes of using the classifier
- The TN VED classifier serves as the basis for the classification of customs rates carried out by the state when regulating foreign economic activity, applied to goods crossing the customs border, as well as in a set of measures to regulate foreign trade (BT) using tariffs.
- Product codes given in the classifier are used in the preparation of some documents for the application of customs tariffs.
- They are used in the development, introduction and implementation of various kinds of economic restrictions and prohibitions in a set of measures to regulate BT by non-tariff methods.
- This classifier for the customs officer serves as a means of implementing control functions that provide the necessary classification of goods.
- In order to ensure the accuracy and comparability of data on goods used in international trade negotiations, this nomenclature simplifies the processing of statistical data, especially those related to international trade.
Classifier of TN VED codes in the USSR
The main classifier in the foreign economic activity of the USSR from 1962 to 1991. ETN VT CMEA performed. With the help of this classifier, goods were systematized by purpose, genesis and processing. The classification system used grouped goods into industrial and agricultural, means of production: into consumer goods, fixed and working capital. Here, a seven-digit code was used for codification.
Initially, this nomenclature was developed as a statistical commodity, but at the same time it was the basis of the customs tariff of the Soviet Union. The classification system that existed in it did not cope well with protective functions, which did not allow the customs tariff to be effectively applied in trade and at the same time function as an economic regulator of the BT.
CIS goods nomenclature classifier
The CIS participants signed an agreement on the use of a single nomenclature in the field of customs statistics, based on the HS nomenclature. On the day of November 3, 1995, the Agreement on a unified classifier was signed.
Its feature is that it is conducted by the customs service of the Russian Federation. It contains GRIs that can be used to correctly interpret HS harmonized codes, product description codes, and section and group notes.
This classifier has a minus - insufficient detail.
Codifier under consideration in Russia
In April 2000, the TN VED of the Russian Federation was put into effect in our country - a classifier, the international basis for which was the harmonized system (HS) and its derivatives TN CNES and TN VED CIS with the detail used in Russia, on tenth character and code extension up to 14 characters.
EurAsEC classifier
20.09.2002 in Astana, the member countries of the EurAsEC concluded an agreement on the common EurAsEC classifier under consideration. An agreement was reached that for the purposes of maintaining statistical records and regulation, the countries will use the ten-digit classifier of Russia, which is based on the classifier of the CIS TN VED, as well as the WTO HS, as the TN VED of the EurAsEC.
Nomenclature of goods in the TC
Since the beginning of 2010, in accordance with the decision of the supreme body of the Customs Union of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan have been using the unified TNVED classifier of the Customs Union.
This classifier is also built on the basis of the HS, TN CNES and the CIS commodity nomenclature. Its use creates the necessary conditions for effective interaction between the member states of the CU, the EEC and the Russian Federation, which improves the conduct of the BT.
In conclusion
Improvement of trade and economic ties served as an impetus for the development and use of a standardized nomenclature. Classifiers exist in all countries, the international classifier is called the HS. Our country, as well as the Customs Union of our country with Kazakhstan and Belarus, has its own classifier.
