Overview
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (also known as the Harmonized System (HS)) is a worldwide standard system of names and numbers to classify traded products. The HS forms a part of all international free trade agreements. For more information about the HS Code, please see the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website.
Merchants sending international orders are required to put a HS code for the product/s on customs declaration forms. For convenience, this code can be added to every product in Maropost Commerce in bulk.
Update HS Tariff Number on Products
While you can update each product individually, it’s much easier to add the HS Tariff to each product in bulk, via export/import. First, create a file with a list of your product SKUs, category and name.
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In your Maropost Commerce control panel navigate to Settings & Tools > Export Data.
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Click the Perform Complex Export button and choose Start Data Export Wizard.
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Fill in the Name Your File field and click the Continue to Next Step button.
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Click the Add New Field to File button four times, and select the SKU*, Name, Product Category Full Path List and HS Tariff Number fields. The name and category will help you identify which codes to apply to your products.
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Click the Continue to Next Step button until you’re ready to generate the file. In the Send Export File to field select Local URL. This will save the file in your site database so that you can download it.
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Click the Export Now button and confirm by clicking Ok. The export process will be automatically started, and you will also see a URL you can click on to download the file.
You can either check the process has run (by clicking on it and looking for a Complete status) or wait five minutes and click the URL to download the file.
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Open the file and add the codes to the HS tariff field in your spreadsheet. You can find a list of codes on DFAT website.
When complete, save your file so it can be uploaded.
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The file can now be imported. Navigate to Settings & Tools > Import Data.
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Click the Perform Complex Import button, and choose Start Data Import Wizard
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Click Browse to select the exported file you downloaded, then click the Continue to Next Step button.
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Set the Name and Product Category lines to Ignore Column, as they don't need to be updated. The HS Tariff Number and SKU* will already be mapped correctly. Click Continue to Next Step.
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Click the Continue to Next Step button to advance through the import steps, and click the Process File Now button when you get to it.
An automatic process will import the product file you’ve uploaded.
Your products are now updated with the HS Tariff number.
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