Global Trade Item Number
Format and encodings
Note that GTIN-12 and GTIN-13 numbers can be encoded as GTIN-13 or GTIN-14 by adding initial padding zeroes. For GTIN-14, this indicates a "packaging level" of a single item.

Global Trade Item Number

Section Title: Format and encodings
Table Section Text: Note that GTIN-12 and GTIN-13 numbers can be encoded as GTIN-13 or GTIN-14 by adding initial padding zeroes. For GTIN-14, this indicates a "packaging level" of a single item.

Name	Former names	Barcode symbologies

GTIN-14 (used for wholesale shipments, not retail point of sale)	EAN/UCC-14, SCC-14, DUN-14, UPC Case Code, UPC Shipping Container Code	GS1-128, GS1 Databar, ITF-14

GTIN-13	EAN, EAN·UCC-13, JAN (subset)	EAN-13

GTIN-12	EAN·UCC-12, UCC-12	UPC-A, UPC-E (condensed to 6 digits)

GTIN-8	EAN/UCC-8	EAN-8

Sentence(s)

GTIN-13s may be encoded in EAN-13 barcodes, and GTIN-14s may be encoded in ITF-14 or GS1-128 barcodes.

final_sentence: GTIN-13s may be encoded in EAN-13 barcodes, and GTIN-14s may be encoded in ITF-14 or GS1-128 barcodes.