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Changelog

The standard provides mechanisms to upgrade the standard over time. All changes to the standard shall be listed in this changelog to keep users up to date on the current version of the standard and what changes have been made from previous versions.

The current version is 1.0

Changelog - v1.0

This is the first version of the standard, as such this changelog does not detail changes from a previous version of the standard, but from the EU’s TARIC3 standard, which was in use before. For more detail see here.

  • Simplification of regulations. Only the base regulation records are used and EU-specific fields such as Official Journal numbers are not populated. UK-specific information is included in other fields instead. Other regulation records are maintained for historical data and compatibility.
  • Some fields that previously only allowed alphabet or numeral characters have had their format expanded to include both alphabet and numeral characters.
  • Some extra validity rules have been added to more tightly constrain data. For example, in most cases descriptions are no longer allowed to be blank or missing.
  • Languages other than English are possible to represent but are not used.
  • A number of features are no longer used, such as publication sigles, exchange rates, nomenclature groups and geographical group parents.
  • Addition of the tariff data standard manual, to detail the data structures of the standard, the trade policies that underpin it and the validation rules that constrain it.