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How does the Harmonized System?

Since the man knew the trade, the need is created to call the merchandise in some way that identifies them and does not give rise to doubts of what merchandise is, that is, that we are talking about the same merchandise between seller and buyer.

For modern times, the need to number the goods is also born, that is, to put a code that identifies the merchandise and the codification of the goods is born and to solve this great need, the Harmonized System of Designation and Codification of Goods is created, tariff nomenclature which since 1988 we know as the Harmonized System of the World Customs Organization based in Brussels, Belgium, where they have signed and ratified the agreement of addition by 177 countries and is in operation in more than 220.