What is HS Code?

HS Code is an abbreviation for Harmonized System Code, which is widely used in the international trade process. The HS code is developed by the World Customs Organization (WCO) to make it easier to classify the products for the trade process in every country all over the world. This code consists of thousands of commodity groups, and it can be identified by a six-digit code based on the type of products.

HS Code is essential for export and import regulations all around the world. Not only for identifying the products, this code is also needed by the exporter to know the regulations based on the country of destination of trade. Therefore, we know how much duty we should pay the duty in order to export or import some goods.

What is the meaning and structure of HS Code? 

HS Code is a numerical system that is widely used to identify products in the export and import process. Therefore, the HS Code consists of a six-digit code based on each product. However, some countries are extending the HS Code for other classifications based on the regional or national tariff. This code has a structure based on the definition and serial code of each product. This is the breakdown of the HS Code structure.

• First two digits: Chapter or category of common goods
• Second two digits: Heading or specific group of goods
• Last two digits: Subheading or detail of the category of goods.

Some countries are allowed to expand the HS code number from 8 to 12 to sort the products for export and import. Several countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, are using the 10-digit HS code number. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia uses 12 HS codes because it is required to add the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) special number and the specific number for its country in the fourth-to-last number.

Is it necessary to declare the HS Code?

HS Code is an important part of the export and import process. Thus, the HS Code should be declared in every international trade. This code is very helpful to confirm that the goods are classified and can be identified by the customs accordingly. This code made it easier to identify based on trade regulations between the two countries, especially for the necessity of duties, taxes, and statistics reporting.

The customs bureau from every country will define different regulations based on the country the goods come from, or the goods will be exported. If the HS Code is wrong, that would make the customs implement different duties or taxes based on the trade deal between the two countries. There are risks that the shipment would be delayed for weeks or months. In the worst scenario, your goods would be rejected by the customs officer when they arrive in the destination country if they found out about the intention of changing or misclassifying the products.

Using AI to match HS Code

Finding the HS code is difficult and needs extra work to find based on the regulations and trade negotiations between the two countries. Due to the complexity of finding the HS code for customs clearance, we need the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure that we can find and match the HS Code for specific products and the destination country. This would help us to avoid failure in order to declare the HS Code for the particular products.

One of the reliable AI platforms to solve this problem is HS Code Match. HS Code Match is considered a breakthrough for international trade in order to address the difficulty of finding the HS Code and specific trade regulations for more than 130 countries all over the world. With many features, the HS Code Match will assist and give you information related to every country’s international trade regulations.

HS Code Match to different countries’ standards 

HS Code Match allows you to identify the product that you want to export and the regulatory standard of the destination country. This platform will give you the information on import duty on specific products and match it with the latest regulations. This feature will ease your time to open the trade regulation data based on the website in every country and check the HS code as well.

AI Accuracy rating to match multiple HS Codes

Not only provides the HS Code and regulation based on countries and goods, but HS Code Match also provides a duty rating. With the AI engine, HS Code Match gives the rating based on the updated regulations for specific goods between two countries. The HS Code Match will give the lists of HS codes based on the rate of more detailed products. This list will give you an understanding to match what the products that are relevant based on your intention.

How to use our HS Code Match Services 

HS Code Match provides an interactive and functional user interface in order to boost user experience. Therefore, HS Code Match can be used easily even for a person that never opened this platform. HS Code Match is similar to other search engine that provides these services. These are the steps of how to use the HS Code Match for searching regulations and HS codes based on the countries and products.

Step 1: Set the product name and the countries

Before using HS Code Match, you should define the products and countries you are from and the destination country first. Then, set the product, destination, and origin country in their brackets. Once it is set, you can click the Search button.

Step 2: Check the result of the HS Code Match

Once the results from HS Code Match come out, you can check the duty rate based on the specific products. Then, you can choose one of the specific HS codes based on your preference and the most accurate one.

Step 3: Check the regulation and Import Duty

On the HS code details page, you find the information related to HS code description, import duty (FTA), and regulations between the two countries. You are allowed to know more about the detailed information by clicking on the regulation and import duty on a specific country and the goods.

Step 4: Use AI Assistant on HS Code Match

Not only is information related to the HS Code description, but HS Code Match is equipped with the AI Assistant. You can chat directly with the database to get information related to tariffs, antidumping, regulations, etc. This tool will help you reduce the time to get information easily and effectively.

Key Features of Jureem HS Code Match 

HS Code Match provides several key features that could help you find the HS code standard based on your goods, country of origin, and the destination country. These features from HS Code Match will help you find the right HS code conveniently and quickly. These are the details of the key features from Jureem HS Code Match.

Key features:

• AI Code match using LLM to HS code national standards

One of the key features of HS Code Match is using AI Code. This feature operates the Large Language Models (LLM) to match the HS code national standard. The LLM will collect and train a huge amount of text, voice, and other types of data sets. This AI can generate text based on the regulations and government customs data to match the HS code that you are looking for.

• Using real-life data of millions of shipment records to train the AI model

Not only does it use LLM, but HS Code Match also uses real-life data from shipment records all around the world. These millions of shipment data are collected to teach the AI to understand based on the real conditions of international trade. Therefore, this AI would help you to generate an accurate answer based on your preference.

• Multiple HS Code output with accuracy rating

As we know, HS Code Match gives several outputs from the lowest to the highest duty rates. This duty rate output is defined by the goods that you are looking for and the country of origin and destination. HS Code Match will generate the duty rate based on the current government publication data. You will get the most accurate duty rate to help your decision related to the export and import of specific products.

• Providing the AI Assistant

One of the most interesting features of HS Code Match is the AI Assistant. This tool is available at the HS Code Details page to help you find the particular information based on the tariff and regulation from a specific country. This also allows us to know the recent information about the regulations from the destination country. Thus, we can avoid the changes in the trade relations between the two countries. AI Assistant feature on HS Code Match is quite simple is similar to other chatbots, to connect with the documents.

Connecting to our Developer APIs 

The HS Code Match service is available as a third-party provider to use as the application programming interface (API). This would help the clients connect the international trade data and information easily to their websites. These are the quick steps for connecting your website to HS Code Match APIs.

• Find the HS Code Match API token

HS Code Match required users to use an API token to connect to their service. You can find the API token in the API Token Management. First, open the API option on the home HS Code Match page and click Get API Token.

• Copy the API token

Once it opens, you can find the API Token. Then, copy your token from your account to connect to your website to the HS Match Code API. HS Match Code is available for free users with a limit of 100 credits per month.

• Connect the HS Code Match APIs

After finding the API token, you can paste it into the HS Code Match base URL. You can easily connect to the HS Code Match APIs by pasting the base URL of the HS Code Match APIs on your website.

• Check for HS Code Match 

Next, you can check whether the HS Code Match APIs are connected or not. If HS Code Match is successfully connected, it would give example responses as follows:

Key features:

• Simple and easy-to-use API documentation.

Based on the API connection quick steps above, we can see that HS Code Match gives a convenient way to connect your website to the APIs. If you want to know more about the HS Code Match API, you can check our API documentation in the link below:

(https://jureem.stoplight.io/docs/public/d8187c9b58a4a-m-tech-public-api-documentation) 

• Using an API token to secure the connection

One of the most interesting API features on HS Code Match is the API token. API tokens are known for being used as verification from the users. This allows you to have secure access from the server.

• Country standard and product name for HS Code Match

HS Code Match API also provides the country standard and product name. You can find this on the API documentation. This allows you to specify the country or product that you want to connect to on your website.