The term "customs tariff number management" refers to the structured recording, maintenance, and assignment of customs tariff codes to goods, products, or materials. Its purpose is to support correct customs classification, reliable calculation of duties and taxes, and compliance with international import and export requirements.
Management of Customs Tariff Codes: Centralized recording and maintenance of tariff codes for products, product groups, or material master data.
Product Classification: Support for assigning goods to suitable tariff codes based on product characteristics, commodity groups, or descriptions.
Master Data Integration: Linking customs tariff codes with item, supplier, customer, or ERP master data.
Validity and Version Management: Tracking changes, validity periods, and historical assignments of tariff codes.
Plausibility Checks: Checking whether tariff codes are complete, correctly formatted, and suitable for specific countries, goods, or business processes.
Automated Suggestion Functions: Providing possible tariff code suggestions based on product data, previous classifications, or rule-based criteria.
Calculation of Duties and Charges: Using stored tariff codes to determine customs duties, import charges, taxes, or trade-related measures.
Documentation and Traceability: Storing classification decisions, justifications, responsibilities, and audit trails.
Reporting and Analytics: Creating overviews of classified items, missing tariff codes, or potentially risky classifications.
A manufacturing company assigns customs tariff codes to its products in order to prepare export documents correctly.
A trading company regularly checks whether the tariff codes stored for imported goods are still up to date.
A customs department documents why a specific item was assigned to a particular tariff code.
An ERP system uses customs tariff codes to calculate import duties and country-specific requirements.
A company identifies products without valid tariff codes and forwards them to the responsible department for review.
