TARIC (Integrated Tariff of the European Communities) is designed to show the various rules applying to specific products when imported into the EU. This includes the provisions of the harmonised system and the combined nomenclature but also additional provisions specified in Community legislation such as tariff suspensions, tariff quotas and tariff preferences, which exist for the majority of the Community’s trading partners. In trade with third countries, the 10-digit Taric code must be used in customs and statistical declarations.
TARIC builds upon the international harmonised system
| HS Chapter | 2 digits | E.g. 18 - Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations |
| HS Heading | 2 digits | E.g. 1806 - Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa |
| HS SubHeading | 2 digits | E.g. 1806 10 - Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter |
| CN SubHeading | 2 digits | E.g. 1806 10 15 - Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose |
| TARIC Sub Heading | 2 digits | E.g. 1806 10 15 00 |