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The UK Tariff Data Standard
The UK’s Import and Export Tariff
About the standard
Trade policies
Agricultural instruments
Meursing code
Simplified procedure value rates
Authorised Use relief
Finding an Authorised Use commodity code
Free trade agreements
What trade agreements contain
Preferential tariffs
Tariff rate quotas
Introducing the benefits of a trade agreement over time: staging
Preferential tariff staging
Tariff rate quota staging
Assigning tariff preference measures in the Tariff
Import and export control
Import controls
Export controls
Measure types and measure type series
Prohibitions and restrictions
Most favoured nation duties
What most favoured nation is
Exceptions to most favoured nation
Creating MFN duties in the tariff
Origin quotas
What origin quotas are
How origin quotas are structured
Retaliatory measures
Steel safeguards
Safeguard categories
Where safeguards apply
How often safeguard quotas are defined
What happens if a specific quota volume runs out
How the data is structured
Suspensions and reliefs
The difference between suspensions and reliefs
Trade remedies
What a trade remedy is
How trade remedies work
Trade remedy measure types
Unilateral preferences
What unilateral preferences are
Unilateral preference measures
Supplementary units
What supplementary units are
Measure types for supplementary units
Data structures
Transactions
Transaction streams
Transactions are atomic
Validation rules
Additional codes
What additional codes are
How additional codes work
Additional Code Types
Validation rules
How additional codes apply
Approved data sources
Commodity codes (Goods nomenclature)
Geographical area names
Measurement units
Certificates
What certificates are
How certificates are structured
Certificate type codes
Source of data
Validation rules
Commodity codes
What commodity codes are made up of
If a commodity codes appears to have fewer than 10 characters
Chapters 98 and 99 of the goods classification
Why the online tariff has indents
Defining if a product is declarable: the product line suffix
The hierachical nature of commodity codes
How new commodity codes are created
Entity-Relationship diagram of ‘external’ links
Validation rules
Descriptions
Descriptions with associated periods
Descriptions without associated periods
Footnotes
Footnote associations
Footnote types
Validity rules
Geographical areas
What geographical areas are
Defining countries and regions
Defining country groups
How geographical areas are identified
Membership of geographical areas
Excluding countries from geographical areas
Entity-Relationship Diagram of the relevant records
Validation rules
Measure components
What measure components are
Types of duty applied to measures
Breaking down a duty string
Duty expressions
How to group duty expressions
Measure component data structure entity-relationship diagram
Validation rules
Measure conditions
What measure conditions are
How conditions are structured
Condition codes
Action codes
How conditions are used
Grouping condition codes
Condition codes in detail
Validation rules
Measure types
What measure types are
Measure type series
Measure type combinations
Existing measure type series
Measure type fields
How the data is structured
Validation rules
Measurement units
What are measurement units?
Measurement unit codes and abbreviations
Measurement unit qualifiers
Entity-relationship diagram for measurement units
A note on monetary units
Validation rules
Measures
What measures are
How a measure is structured
National prohibition and restriction types
Validation rules
Preference codes
What preference codes do
How preference code correlations are structured
Correlation table
Quota associations
Where quota associations are used
How the data is structured
How quota types are defined
Validation rules
Quota geography
Assigning quotas to geographic areas
Managing geography
Strategies for managing origins and exclusions
Validation rules
Quota suspensions
Why suspensions are used
Where quota suspensions are used in the Tariff
How long quota blocks last
Why quotas are blocked
Validation rules
Quotas
How tariff quotas operate
Quota order numbers and descriptions
Types of quota
Defining and grouping quotas
How long quotas last for
How tariff quotas are introduced
Introductory periods
How the data is structured
Quota geography, associations, blocking and suspensions
Validation rules
Regulations
Base regulations
Regulation IDs
Grouping regulations
Draft regulations
Data structure (UK tariff)
Data structure (historic EU tariff data)
Validation rules
Validity dates
Ending validity of measures
Validity dates on descriptions
Validation rules
Deletion while in use
Examples
Mandatory subrecord
Example
Test data
Uniqueness
Examples
Validity contained
Examples
Validity overlaps with self
Examples
Use the data
SQLite database
How the database implements the standard
Querying current data
Differences from the standard
About the standard
Changelog
Changelog - v1.0
Evolution of the standard
The need for an open forum
Implementation of changes
How to get involved
Open standard assessment
Formal specification
Implementation of the formal specification
Openness
Access to the formal specification
Versatility/flexibility of the proposed standard
End-user effect of the formal specification
Maintenance of the formal specification
Related European standards
Relationship with TARIC
Differences from TARIC3
Running the Secretariat
Context
Responsibilities
User needs
Discover
Evaluate
Integrate
Maintain
How these are met
Weeknotes
Weeknote #1: Beginnings (w/c 2023-08-14)
What is a data standard?
So why are we doing this?
What’s next?
Weeknote #2: w/c 2023-08-21
Why a data standard and why now
What’s next?
Weeknote #3: w/c 2023-08-28
Weeknote cadence
What the Tariff Application Platform (TAP) does
Bringing new thoroughness to data documentation
Weeknote #4: w/c 2023-09-04
Who our users are
What our users need to know
Weeknote #5: w/c 2023-09-11
Weeknote #6: w/c 2023-09-18
What the stakeholder group is
What happened at the meeting
Weeknote #7: w/c 2023-09-25
What the Peer Review Group does
Our slot at Peer Review Group
What PRG thought of our work
Weeknote #8: w/c 2023-10-09
Attending the DSA Steering Board
How we’re working with the European Union
Future of the standard
Next time
Tariff data structures