THE PRIORITY DIRECTIONS OF NATIONAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT
FOODSTUFF: STRUCTURE, QUALITY AND CLASSIFICATION IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Elena Andreeva, Miroslav Djordjevic, Petr Gayko
Abstract: Problems of providing domestic market with the highly qualitative foodstuff are the problems of state regulation of foreign economic activity of any country. However in cases of ambiguous items classification by the Harmonized system of the Description and Coding of the food items it is often very difficult to define the instruments of regulation which should be applied to the concrete item. The article gives the examples of the classification problems of the foodstuff illustrating the interrelation between the structure, quality and place in the product ranges of the Harmonized system of Description and Coding of items. The analysis of the most problematic cases of the items classification, which have steady nature of doubtful declaring, is given. The analysis of terminology accepted in the Commodity Nomenclature of the Eurasian Economic Union and national standards is provided. The main distinctions and the reasons of ambiguous understanding of the concepts in Russia, Germany, Spain, France and Switzerland are established. The algorithm of classification of the separate items having various qualitative and quantitative structure is given.
Keywords: foreign trade, classification, goods, quality, regulation, customs payments, commodity nomenclature, use value.
Published: p. 153-160
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