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TARIFFS Get tariff data The WTO website now offers sophisticated options for researching members’ customs duty rates and in many cases imports. One, the new Tariff Analysis Online, draws on two databases to offer tariff rates on products defined at the highest level of detail, import statistics and the ability to analyse these interactively. Another, the Tariff Download Facility, provides standardized tariff statistics, in slightly less detail but with the ability to compare between countries immediately. What are you looking for?
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Tariff Analysis Online is the most versatile and detailed. The tariffs are available at the level of “tariff line” (eight or more digits of the Harmonized System codes). At this level of detail, comparisons between countries are not always possible because countries do not always use the same code numbers to define products. However, Tariff Analysis Online does allow a number of options for looking up data and for analysing it online, including tariffs, tariff quotas, imports and countries’ commitments on agricultural subsidies. The results can be viewed on screen or downloaded and printed.
The
Tariff Download Facility is simpler. The data on bound,
applied and preferential tariffs and import statistics are available
in up to six digits of the Harmonized System (HS) codes, which are
standard for all countries.
Customs codes and standardization back to top
Products in the databases are identified using the World Customs
Organization’s internationally agreed “Harmonized System” (HS).
For each country back to top
These services and data in simpler forms are also available through
each member country’s page on the WTO website (see for example
Argentina).
These pages can be reached from the
list of members.
Data sources back to top The information on bound rates is based on the WTO’s Consolidated Tariff Schedules (CTS) database, which covers the legal commitments on tariffs that member governments have made in the WTO. The information on applied rates is drawn from the WTO’s Integrated Database (IDB). This is data that member governments supply annually on the tariffs they apply normally under the non-discrimination principle of most-favoured nation (MFN). Data on lower preferential duties under free trade agreements or preferential schemes for developing countries are available for some members. Annual import statistics by country of origin are also available in the IDB.
How to obtain the information back to top 1. The database. For standardized tariff information at HS six-digit level go to the WTO Tariff Download Facility. See also its brief explanation and user guide: browse; Word; pdf. To see a country’s tariffs in detail or to compile analytical reports go to Tariff Analysis Online, and its brief explanation and user guide: browse, pdf, Word 2. By country. Links to this information are available on each WTO member country’s information page on the WTO website. To reach these, go to the list of members and click a country’s name. |
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