WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/IT/W/22 
20 October 2006 
 (06-5069) 
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in 
Information Technology Products  
 
 
 
LIST OF THE CHANGES DUE TO THE IN TRODUCTION OF HS 2002 NOMENCLATURE  
IN RELATIONS TO THE ITA PRODUCTS 
 
Note by the Secretariat1 
  
 This note is prepared in response to the requ est made by the participants at the Committee's 
meeting on 25 May 2005. It intends to indicate the changes that have taken place due to the 
introduction of HS 2002 nomenclature.2   
 
Introduction  
 There are 190 items (headings or subheadings) lis ted in Sections 1 and 2 of Attachment A of 
the Information Technology Agreement
3, which were expressed in the HS1996 nomenclature.4  
Among these items, only 11 of them (subheadings or ex subheadings) were affected by the modifications required by HS2002.  According to  the correlation table between HS2002 and HS1996, 
these 11 items could be grouped in three categories of changes and transposed as  described below.  In 
addition, a new list of products could be constructe d by combining the transposed items with others 
which were not affected by HS2002 change. These changes are presented without prejudice to 
Attachment B of the Agreement. 
 
1. HS1996 subheading 900990 should be s ubstituted by HS2002 subheading 900991, 
900992, 900993 and 900999. 
 HS1996 subheading 900990 was split to four ne w HS2002 subheadings. Therefore, the new 
list should include the four new subheading 900991, 900992, 900993 and 900999 as shown in Table 1. 
                                                     
 
 1 This note has been prepared under the Secretaria t's own responsibility and without prejudice to the 
positions of Members and to their rights and obligations under the WTO. 
 2 See G/MA/W/26.  
 3 Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products (WT/MIN(96)/16 of 13 
December 1996) 
 4 Should a new list in HS 2002 nomenclature be esta blished, a mistake in the original list but not 
covered by the transposition (ex 8424.99 should have been  8524.99) and the differences in the Spanish version 
should also be corrected. G/IT/W/22 
Page 2  
 
  Table 1  
 
 HS2002 HS2002 
Description ITA 
Item 
Sec. ITA 
Item ex HS96 HS96 
description  9009.9 - Parts and 
accessories 102 
     
1 102   9009.90 Parts and 
accessories   9009.91  - - Automatic 
document feeders 102 
    
  9009.92  - - Paper feeders 102 
    
  9009.93  - - Sorters 102 
    
  9009.99  - - Other 102  
    
 
  2. HS1996 subheadings 854212, 854213, 854214, 854219, 854230, 85 4240, and 854250 
should be substituted by HS2002 subhead ings 854210, 854221, 854229, 854260 and 
854270. 
 The seven HS2002 subheadings were rearranged according to new criteria, but the change 
was only related to seven HS96 subheadings and five new HS2002 subheadings, with no other codes 
related.  Therefore, the seven HS96 codes and d escriptions should be substituted by the five HS2002 
codes and respective descriptions as shown in Table 2:  G/IT/W/22 
 Page 3 
 
 
   
Table 2 
 
Sec. ITA 
Item ex HS96 HS 96 Description  HS2002 HS2002 
Description ITA 
Item 
1 86   8542.12 Cards incorporating 
an electronic 
integrated circuit 
('smart' cards)  
8542.10  - Cards 
incorporating an 
electronic 
integrated 
circuit ("smart" 
cards) 86, 90 
         
1 87   8542.13 Metal oxide 
semiconductors 
(MOS technology)  
8542.2 - Monolithic 
integrated 
circuits:  
         
1 88   8542.14 Circuits obtained by 
bipolar technology  8542.21 - - Digital 87, 88, 
89 
         
1 89   8542.19 Other monolithic 
digital integrated 
circuits, including 
circuits obtained by a 
combination of 
bipolar and MOS 
technologies 
(BIMOS technology)  
8542.29  - - Other 90 
         
1 90   8542.30 Other monolithic 
integrated circuits     
         
1 91   8542.40 Hybrid integrated 
circuits  
8542.60  - Hybrid 
integrated 
circuits 91 
         
1 92   8542.50 Electronic 
microassemblies  8542.70  - Electronic 
microassemblies 92 
 
3. HS1996 subheading ex 841989, ex 841990, ex 842490 should be retained without any 
change. 
 According to the concordance table, the th ree subheadings were expanded to cover more 
products from other subheadings, and retained the products which were previously classified under 
the three subheadings (see Table 3).   
 The three subheadings are listed in Attachment A section 2 with "ex-outs", indicating that 
only part of these subheadings are covered by the IT A.  Therefore, the three items which were only 
parts of HS1996 subheadings, are still parts of the new HS2002 subheadings. The three items, ex 
841989, ex 841990, ex 842490, could be kept as it is in the new list. G/IT/W/22 
Page 4  
 
  Table 3  
 
ITA Item HS1996 HS2002 Remarks 
114 
Not 
covered* 
 115 Not covered* 8419.89 
ex8508.80 
 
8419.90 ex8508.90 8419.89 
 
 
8419.90 The transfers result from the amendment of Note 1 (e) to 
Chapter 84 and heading 84.67 and the deletion of heading 
85.08 and subheadings 8508.10 to 8508.90.
5 
120 
Not 
covered* 8424.90 
ex8508.90 8424.90 The transfers result from the amendment of Note 1 (e) to 
Chapter 84 and heading 84.67 and the deletion of heading 
85.08 and subheadings 8508.10 to 8508.90.6 
* not covered in Attachment A of the Information Technology Agreement. 
 
__________ 
 
 
                                                      
 5 The remark also covers the following non-ITA HS2002 code: 8419.39.  
 6 The remark also covers for following non-ITA HS2002 codes: 8422.30, 8422.40, 8422.90, 8424.30.