FUND FOR RESEARCH INTO INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH & EQUITY

ISO Type 1 Eco-Labels

Global Review of Eco-Labels: Implications for South Africa

PHASE TWO REPORT

January 2003

Trade Implications for South Africa of Foreign Eco-Labelling Schemes: A Socio-Economic Assessment

Appendix 1 - Overview of Harmonised System (HS) Nomenclature

This appendix provides an overview of the HS nomenclature, as used to categorise and quantify international trade flows between countries. While some countries disaggregate trade data to the 8-digit level, most use the 4-digit and 6-digit level as a means of capturing statistics on trade flows.

SECTION I

Live Animals; Animal Products (Chapters 1-5)

Chapter 1: Live Animals

Chapter 2: Meat and Edible Meat Offal

Chapter 3: Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and Other Aquatic Invertebrates

Chapter 4: Dairy Produce; Birds' Eggs; Natural Honey; Edible Products of Animal Origin, Not Elsewhere Specified or Included

Chapter 5: Products of Animal Origin, Not Elsewhere Specified or Included

SECTION II

Vegetable Products (Chapters 6-14)

Chapter 6: Live Trees and Other Plants; Bulbs, Roots and the Like; Cut Flowers and Ornamental Foliage

Chapter 7: Edible Vegetables and Certain Roots and Tubers

Chapter 8: Edible Fruit and Nuts; Peel of Citrus Fruit or Melons

Chapter 9: Coffee, Tea, Maté and Spices

Chapter 10: Cereals

Chapter 11: Products of the Milling Industry; Malt; Starches; Insulin; Wheat Gluten

Chapter 12: Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds and Fruit; Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw and Fodder

Chapter 13: Lac; Gums, Resins and Other Vegetable Saps and Extracts

Chapter 14: Vegetable Plaiting Materials; Vegetable Products Not Elsewhere Specified or Included

SECTION III

Animal or Vegetable Fats and Oils and Their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes (Chapter 15)

Chapter 15: Animal or Vegetable Fats and Oils and Their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes

SECTION IV

Prepared Foodstuffs; Beverages, Spirits, and Vinegar; Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes (Chapters 16-24)

Chapter 16: Preparations of Meat, of Fish or of Crustaceans, Molluscs or Other Aquatic Invertebrates

Chapter 17: Sugars and Sugar Confectionery

Chapter 18: Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations

Chapter 19: Preparations of Cereals, Flour, Starch or Milk; Pastrycooks' Products

Chapter 20: Preparations of Vegetables, Fruit, Nuts or Other Parts of Plants

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous Edible Preparations

Chapter 22: Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar

Chapter 23: Residues and Waste From the Food Industries; Prepared Animal Fodder

Chapter 24: Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes

SECTION V

Mineral Products (Chapters 25-27)

Chapter 25: Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement

Chapter 26: Ores, Slag and Ash

Chapter 27: Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of Their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes

SECTION VI

Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries (Chapters 28-38)

Chapter 28: Inorganic Chemicals; Organic or Inorganic Compounds of Precious Metals, of Rare-Earth Metals, of Radioactive Elements or of Isotopes

Chapter 29: Organic Chemicals

Chapter 30: Pharmaceutical Products

Chapter 31: Fertilisers

Chapter 32: Tanning or Dyeing Extracts; Tannins and Their Derivatives; Dyes, Pigments and Other Colouring Matter; Paints and Varnishes; Putty and Other Mastics; Inks

Chapter 33: Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetics or Toilet Preparations

Chapter 34: Soap, Organic Surface-active Agents, Washing Preparations, Lubricating Preparations, Artificial Waxes, Prepared Waxes, Polishing or Scouring Preparations, Candles and Similar Articles, Modelling Pastes, "Dental Waxes" and Dental Preparations with a Basis of Plaster

Chapter 35: Albuminoidal Substances; Modified Starches; Glues; Enzymes

Chapter 36: Explosives; Pyrotechnic Products; Matches; Pyrophoric Alloys; Certain Combustible Preparations

Chapter 37: Photographic or Cinematographic Goods

Chapter 38: Miscellaneous Chemical Products

SECTION VII

Plastics and Articles Thereof; Rubber and Articles Thereof (Chapters 39-40)

Chapter 39: Plastics and Articles Thereof

Chapter 40: Rubber and Articles Thereof

SECTION VIII

Raw Hides and Skins, Leather, Furskins and Articles Thereof; Saddlery and Harness; Travel Goods, Handbags, and Similar Containers; Articles of Animal Gut (Other Than Silkworm Gut) (Chapters 41-43)

Chapter 4: Raw Hides and Skins (Other Than Furskins) and Leather

Chapter 42: Articles of Leather; Saddlery and Harness; Travel Goods, Handbags and Similar Containers; Articles of Animal Gut (Other Than Silk-Worm Gut)

Chapter 43: Furskins and Artificial Fur; Manufactures Thereof

SECTION IX

Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal; Cork and Articles of Cork; Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto or of Other Plaiting Materials; Basketware and Wickerwork (Chapters 44-46)

Chapter 44: Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal

Chapter 45: Cork and Articles of Cork

Chapter 46: Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto or of Other Plaiting Materials; Basketware and Wickerwork

SECTION X

Pulp of Wood or of other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Waste and Scrap of Paper or Paperboard; Paper and Paperboard and Articles Thereof (Chapters 47-49)

Chapter 47: Pulp of Wood or of Other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Waste and Scrap of Paper or Paperboard

Chapter 48: Paper and Paperboard; Articles of Paper Pulp, of Paper or of Paperboard

Chapter 49: Printed Books, Newspapers, Pictures and Other Products of the Printing Industry; Manuscripts, Typescripts and Plans

SECTION XI

Textiles and Textile Articles (Chapters 50-63)

Chapter 50: Silk and Silk Products

Chapter 51: Wool, Fine or Coarse Animal Hair; Horsehair Yarn and Woven Fabric

Chapter 52: Cotton, cotton yarns, fibres and fabrics

Chapter 53: Other Vegetable Textile Fibres; Paper Yarn and Woven Fabrics of Paper Yarn

Chapter 54: Man-Made Filaments

Chapter 55: Man-Made Staple Fibres

Chapter 56: Wadding, Felt and Nonwovens; Special Yarns; Twine; Cordage, Ropes, Cables and Articles Thereof

Chapter 57: Carpets and Other Textile Floor Coverings

Chapter 58: Special Woven Fabrics; Tufted Textile Fabrics; Lace; Tapestries; Trimmings; Embroidery

Chapter 59: Impregnated, Coated, Covered or Laminated Textile Fabrics; Textile Articles of a Kind Suitable For Industrial Use

Chapter 60: Knitted or Crocheted Fabrics

Chapter 61: Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Knitted or Crocheted

Chapter 62: Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Not Knitted or Crocheted

Chapter 63: Other Made Up Textile Articles; Sets; Worn Clothing and Worn Textile Articles; Rags

SECTION XII

Footwear, Headgear, Umbrellas, Sun Umbrellas, Walking-Sticks, Seat-Sticks, Whips, Riding-Crops and Parts Thereof; Prepared Feathers and Articles Made Therewith; Artificial Flowers; Articles of Human Hair (Chapters 64-67)

Chapter 64: Footwear, Gaiters and the Like; Parts of Such Articles

Chapter 65: Headgear and Parts Thereof

Chapter 66: Umbrellas, Sun Umbrellas, Walking-Sticks, Seat-Sticks, Whips, Riding-Crops and Parts Thereof

Chapter 67: Prepared Feathers and Down and Articles Made of Feathers or of Down; Artificial Flowers; Articles of Human Hair

SECTION XIII

Articles of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica or Similar Materials; Ceramic Products; Glass and Glassware (Chapters 68-70)

Chapter 68: Articles of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica or Similar Materials

Chapter 69: Ceramic Products

Chapter 70: Glass and Glassware

SECTION XIV

Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semiprecious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles Thereof; Imitation Jewellery; Coin (Chapter 71)

Chapter 71: Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semi-Precious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles Thereof; Imitation Jewellery; Coin

SECTION XV

Base Metals and Articles of Base Metal (Chapters 72-83)

Chapter 72: Iron and Steel

Chapter 73: Articles of Iron or Steel

Chapter 74: Copper and Articles Thereof

Chapter 75: Nickel and Articles Thereof

Chapter 76: Aluminum and Articles Thereof

Chapter 77: Reserved for possible future use in the Harmonised System

Chapter 78: Lead and Articles Thereof

Chapter 79: Zinc and Articles Thereof

Chapter 80: Tin and Articles Thereof

Chapter 81: Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles Thereof

Chapter 82: Tools, Implements, Cutlery, Spoons and Forks, of Base Metal; Parts Thereof of Base Metal

Chapter 83: Miscellaneous Articles of Base Metal

SECTION XVI

Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Electrical Equipment; Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles (Chapters 84-85)

Chapter 84: Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts Thereof

Chapter 85: Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

SECTION XVII

Vehicles, Aircraft, Vessels and Associated Transport Equipment (Chapters 86-89)

Chapter 86: Railway or Tramway Locomotives, Rolling- Stock and Parts Thereof; Railway or Tramway Track Fixtures and Fittings and Parts Thereof; Mechanical (Including Electro-Mechanical) Traffic Signalling Equipment of all Kinds

Chapter 87: Vehicles Other Than Railway or Tramway Rolling-Stock, and Parts and Accessories Thereof

Chapter 88: Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts Thereof

Chapter 89: Ships, Boats and Floating Structures

SECTION XVIII

Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Clocks and Watches; Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories Thereof (Chapters 90-92)

Chapter 90: Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Parts and Accessories Thereof

Chapter 91: Clocks and Watches and Parts Thereof

Chapter 92:Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories of Such Articles

SECTION XIX

Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories Thereof (Chapter 93)

Chapter 93: Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories Thereof

SECTION XX

Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles (Chapters 94-96)

Chapter 94: Furniture; Bedding, Mattresses, Mattress Supports, Cushions and Similar Stuffed Furnishings; Lamps and Lighting Fittings, Not Elsewhere Specified or Included; Illuminated Signs, Illuminated Name-Plates and the Like; Prefabricated Buildings

Chapter 95: Toys, Games and Sports Requisites; Parts and Accessories Thereof

Chapter 96: Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles

SECTION XXI

Works of Art, Collectors' Pieces and Antiques (Chapter 97)

Chapter 97: Works of Art, Collectors' Pieces and Antiques

SECTION XXII

Chapter 98: Reserved for special use by Contracting Parties (South Africa: mostly platinum by value)

SECTION XXIII

Chapter 99: Reserved for special use by Contracting Parties (South Africa: OEM automotive components)