CEFTA
The EU’s Combined Nomenclature (CN)
For its Customs rules, the EU relies on the Combined Nomenclature (CN). The Combined Nomenclature is the EU’s numeric coding system comprising the six digits from the Harmonised System (HS) codes with further EU subdivisions, i.e., 10 or even 12 digits.
An example of EU product classification based on the CN and the related HS codes is provided in the table below:
HS chapter | 2 digits | e.g., ‘18 Cocoa and Cocoa preparations’ |
HS heading | 4 digits
| e.g., ‘1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa’ |
HS subheading | 6 digits | e.g., ‘1806 10 - Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or sweetening matter’ |
CN subheading | 8 digits | e.g., ‘1806 10 15 - Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose’ |