The Tariff portal allows consultation and browsing of tariff data, most importantly the nomenclature codes and duty rates, and also other data related to Customs Tariff.
The selection of one of the available languages enables the display and/or search for EU data in this language and also changes the Portal’s Interface language. Certain pages presenting text data exist only in the Customs Authority's native language and independently from the selected interface language.
The last update date is displayed on the Homepage. It indicates the date of the last update for data which can be displayed, searched with the Tariff Portal and/or used for calculation purposes.
The Home page is the welcome page of the tariff portal on which several information are available.
The Home page allows to browse information and documents with the following menu:
The following operations can be performed in the Tariff browser screen:
The way the criteria are entered is described in Display criteria.
The goods nomenclature is built as a hierarchically structured tree. After the button Browse nomenclature tree has been pressed, the Tariff Portal displays the Nomenclature tree screen with the section list. From that list, after clicking the section number, it is possible to go to the chapter list (two-digit code), then to the heading list (four-digit code), the sub-heading list (six-digit code), the combined nomenclature – CN list (eight-digit code), and the TARIC nomenclature list (ten-digit code), which is on the lowest tree level.
All Chapters have links to Legal Notes and Explanatory Notes. The first link displays the chapter’s legal notes, and the second displays the chapter’s explanatory notes. This does not mean that every chapter has legal and explanatory notes attached. In fact, only certain chapters actually have such attachments. However, the links indicate that Legal Notes and Explanatory Notes can be attached to any chapter.
Sometimes footnotes and BTI links are assigned to codes on given levels. Clicking on the BTI link redirects the user to the European Union's BTI System.
Instead of scrolling the tree step by step, one can go directly to the searched code through entering the code into the Goods nomenclature code field and clicking the button Browse nomenclature tree. The Tariff Portal displays the searched code in the context of adjacent codes.
From the Tariff tree screen it is possible go directly to the Duty rates screen. This is possible by clicking the nomenclature code on the lowest level, that is, the code which has no hierarchically lower codes. From that code one can view the measures which are assigned to it.
Note: Entering a criterion in the additional information field when browsing the nomenclature tree has no influence on the course of operation.
The measures are duty rates, taxes (VAT and excise tax), and non-tariff restrictions which are assigned to nomenclature codes.
The measures are always displayed for a particular nomenclature code. After the code has been entered the Tariff Portal displays all measures assigned to that code, for all the origin/destination countries. If, in addition to the code, the origin/destination country has been entered, the result will display only those measures which apply to the selected nomenclature code and origin/destination country.
Note: Entering additional information as a criterion has no influence on the course of measure display operation.
After the criterion (criteria) has been entered and the operation initialized, the Tariff Portal displays the Duty Rates screen, where the information is presented in following order: the goods code with the goods description, measurement unit, restrictions concerning import and/or export of goods (with relevant footnotes, legal acts, and additional codes), and duty rates for particular countries or for a specific country (with relevant footnotes, legal acts, and additional codes as well).
Clicking the footnote code, legal act and additional code button opens the screen with detailed information. On the screen presenting the additional code, the link to the footnote text of this code is displayed.
Some rates include a link to an agricultural component (Meursing code). After clicking that link (“Composition of goods Meursing code”) the Meursing calculator screen is displayed where, after entering the corresponding values, it is possible to calculate an additional duty for certain agricultural commodities.
Sometimes applicability of a measure or the amount of duty rate depends on certain conditions. In such a case the link Conditions is displayed below the measure. After clicking that link the screen presenting the information regarding conditions is displayed.
If the measure is assigned to the country group, some countries from that group may be excluded from the application of the measure – in that case the abbreviation excl. is displayed next to the country group code with link(s) to the excluded country (countries) ISO code.
Duty rates are displayed in the alphabetical order according to the geographical areas to which they are assigned, but measures that apply to all countries (Erga Omnes) are always displayed first.
By clicking the code of the country or country group the system displays the related information on the Geographical areas screen.
A list of links which represent the Nomenclature Groups connected with the current nomenclature code or the code above in the hierarchy is also displayed. The user can click on those links and can see the group description and its start date.
The additional information covers: Legal Notes, Explanatory Notes, Binding Tariff Information, Lists of Goods, Classification Regulations, Explanatory Notes for CN, Classification Rulings of European Commission, Adjudications of European Court of Justice, Pronouncements of Customs Code Committee, Compendium of Classification Opinions and Decisions of Harmonised Code Comittee.
The display of additional information is carried out by displaying all information (within one of the mentioned above areas) which is assigned to the nomenclature code entered as a criterion. When, for example, code 0101 00 00 00 has been entered and additional information area "Legal notes" selected, the Tariff Portal displays all legal notes assigned to the code 0101 00 00 00. Only the additional information valid for the entered date is displayed. For example, if in the nomenclature code field Chapter “5002”, Explanatory notes is selected in the additional information and the button “Search additional information” is used then the system displays a link “Note to item 5002 ” and clicking that link the system displays the content of explanatory notes of chapter 5002.
Independent from whether one or more information is assigned to the entered code, the found information is displayed in the beginning as a list of identifiers. After clicking the proper identifier the complete additional information is displayed in the Tariff Portal.
When no additional information is assigned to the entered code, the Tariff Portal displays the message “No search results”.
For each country, the line contains the country code and the country name.
In addition to the country, the goods nomenclature code indicating the commodity must also be entered. If no code has been entered, the Tariff Portal displays no measures.
Changes can be performed to TARIC Nomenclature codes (10 –Digit codes). The Correlation table is a tool that helps traders to find out which of the nomenclature codes are affected by those changes.
Searching for a geographical area consists of searching for the country or country group.
The country is searched for by entering the ISO country code (for example, "GB"), the country name or a combination of both. The obtained result includes, in addition to the ISO country code and the country name, the codes of all the country groups to which the searched country belongs.
The country group is searched for by entering the group’s code (for example, “1011”). The obtained result includes the list of all the countries which belong to this group. For each country the list of all the groups to which the country belongs is displayed.
Certificate identifies licenses, certificates and similar documents required to be produced for import/export declarations. Certificates are not integrated as separate measure types, but as conditions of the various measure types, for example surveillance, preferences etc. Here the user can search and view details of certificates.
Additional codes are optional and used to differentiate or to specialise measure applicability.
Footnotes are optional and are used to provide additional information.
This function allows to search and view Quotas defined in system. One can search quotas by quota number, country code, critical status and status.
After the search, a list of found quotas will be displayed. To view full information about particular quota, the “Details” link placed on the right side of screen can be used.
The quotas displayed are those managed by the Customs and not the agricultural quotas.
This function allows users who intend to load into their own IT systems and databases the Tariff data maintained by Tariff system. The XML extractions include collections of hierarchical Tariff objects, the links between different Tariff objects and reference attributes that allows unambiguous identification of the object in the XML extractions. The extracted data includes all EU-TARIC and National Tariff objects.
3.11 Reference data
In Tariff Consultation, when searching for "Correlation table",
"Geographical areas", "Certificates", "Additional codes",
"Footnotes" and "Quotas" none, one or more blank fields can be
filled-in as search criteria . If all blank field are left empty
(except for Geographical areas category), the system shows all
available results for the chosen category. Criteria filter the
search request. Instead of leave empty blanks fields, the Portal
allows search with "Wildcard" symbol (*) in all blank fields.
Bellow some examples of generic search.
Examples:
4 Duty calculation
This facility is available to internal users of the system (Customs Authority) and to the general public, including traders. However, confidential or sensitive information is only visible to the Customs Authority registered users.
The user enters data in the following fields (mandatory fields marked with "*"):
The supplementary units can be added by clicking "Add ".
The measurement unit can be selected from the list of measurements in the "Code" field.
The supplementary units can be entered in any sequence.
In order to remove the supplementary unit from the list, the user has to check the square on the right side of the given supplementary unit and click "Delete".
When all necessary fields for calculation are completed press the “Calculate duties” button.
The system displays the following information:
The Meursing menu allows user to calculate Meursing code, or display values of components based on the known code.
In order to calculate the Meursing code, the following fields must be completed:The system displays the corresponding Meursing code.
It is also possible to enter the known Meursing code in order to display the corresponding values of components.