Classifying Your Products for International Trade: HS, HTS and Schedule B Codes

People who are new to international trade are sometimes confused by the different but similar sounding types of product classification, the frequency with which people use the names of the different types of classification systems interchangeably, and the fact that they sometimes see six-digit classification numbers and other times 10-digit numbers. This chart summarizes the three different types of product classification codes used in importing and exporting by customs for determining tariff rates and trade statistics.