Harmonized System Nomenclature - 2007 Amendment: New Zealand Implementation Project

The World Customs Organization (WCO) [link to WCO website] has released its latest amendment to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS). The third major amendment to the HS, it takes effect from 1 January 2007.

The HS nomenclature is a goods classification system used by New Zealand and more than 190 other countries as a basis for their Customs tariffs and for the collection of international trade statistics.

The WCO is responsible for the HS and revises the system at regular intervals (every four to six years) to ensure it reflects changes in technology or in patterns of international trade. Details of the HS 2007 amendment are available from the WCO website:

A project team established across the Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand Customs Service [link to NZCS website] and Statistics New Zealand [link to SNZ website] will implement the updated nomenclature into the New Zealand international trade environment on 1 January 2007.

Note that the changes will not affect the current duty status of any imported goods. However, for some commodities there may be a loss of or increase in detail or shift in scope.

More information on these changes will be released later in 2006.

Outcomes from the HS 2007 amendment will result in amendments to:

For further information about the New Zealand Implementation Project, please contact the HS project team at Statistics New Zealand.

HS2007 Tariff - Consequential Changes to Part II Concessions [ Published 30 November 2006 ]
The following tariff concession listings have been modified as a result of tariff nomenclature changes arising from the introduction of the HS2007 Tariff.