HS Convention Law and Legal Definition
HS Convention refers to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System. The harmonized system multipurpose goods nomenclature is used as the basis for customs tariffs and for the compilation of international trade statistics. It is also used for many other purposes involving trade policy, rules of origin, monitoring of controlled goods, internal taxes, freight tariffs, transport statistics, quota controls, price monitoring, compilation of national accounts, and economic research and analysis.
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