[K-BIZ Starter Guide] Vol.1: A Friendly Introduction to HS CODE for First-Time Sellers

[K-BIZ Starter Guide] Vol.1: A Friendly Introduction to HS CODE for First-Time Sellers


1. "HS CODE", the first time you hear it, do you really need to know it?

The first knowledge that is essential for buddies who start trading for the first time! ‘HS CODE’ is the first thing you will encounter when importing or exporting any goods, not just K-POP goods.


2. What is "HS CODE"?

It is a common international language that is essential for import customs clearance. In other words, it is a unique number set by the world to categorise goods.

Based on this code, you will determine the following

  • Classification of the goods
  • Calculate the duty rate
  • Whether or not it is importable

In short, the HS CODE acts as an ‘identity card’ for your goods.

For example, albums, MDs, and pom-poms are all K-POP products, but each should use a different HS CODE.


3. HS CODE, why is it "important"?

Understanding and using the HS CODE correctly is the beginning of importing and the basis for trusted transactions.

1) Tariff differences

Different HS codes mean different duty rates for the same product. If you get it wrong, you could pay more taxes than you need to, or worse, be penalised.

2) Avoid customs delays

If you declare with the wrong HS code, then customs will have to double-check it, which can be time-consuming, additional documentation requests, and even shipment delays.

โœ… Therefore, KODYnator prevents customs delays by filling in the HS CODE on the [Overseas Carrier Submission Document].

3) Trusted transactions 

Managing your HS CODE correctly shows your professionalism as an authorised distributor, and gives your customers more trust.


4. Tips for "first-time boss buddies"

- We recommend using an Excel file to organise your frequently used HS CODES by product.

- When preparing for customs clearance for the first time, it is also a good idea to get help from a customs officer or import/export expert.

โœ… K-POP products are complex and sometimes contain multiple codes, so it's safer to use KODYnator to help you.

- The importing country's customs may have different interpretations and tax rates, so it's a good idea to check with them!


5. Reference (HS CODE search site by country)

  • KR Korea : Korea Customs Service Uni-Pass (UNI-PASS)

        ๐ŸŒhttps://unipass.customs.go.kr/clip/index.do

  • US : U.S. International Trade Commission - HTS (Harmonised Tariff Schedule)

        ๐ŸŒhttps://hts.usitc.gov


KODY GLOBAL

e-mail : b2b@haink.co


[K-BIZ ์ž…๋ฌธ์„œ] ์ž…๋ฌธ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ 1  : ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ HS CODE ์•ˆ๋‚ด์„œ


1. ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋“ฃ๋Š” “HS CODE”, ๊ผญ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

์ฒ˜์Œ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” BUDDY์—๊ฒŒ ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ง€์‹! K-POP ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด๋“  ์ˆ˜์ถœ์ž…์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” “HS CODE”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


2. “HS CODE”๋ž€?

์ˆ˜์ž… ํ†ต๊ด€์— ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ณตํ†ต ์–ธ์–ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ •ํ•ด๋†“์€ ๊ณ ์œ  ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์Œ์„ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„
  • ๊ด€์„ธ์œจ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ
  • ์ˆ˜์ž… ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ํŒ๋‹จ ์—ฌ๋ถ€

์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•ด, HS CODE๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ‘์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ’๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์•จ๋ฒ”, MD, ์‘์›๋ด‰์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ K-POP ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ HS CODE๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


3. HS CODE, ์™œ “์ค‘์š””ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด, ์ˆ˜์ž…์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด์ž, ์‹ ๋ขฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1) ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ

๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด๋ผ๋„ HS CODE๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ์œจ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž˜๋ชป ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ธˆ์„ ๋” ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ถˆ์ด์ต์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2) ํ†ต๊ด€ ์ง€์—ฐ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ

 ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ HS CODE๋กœ ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์„ธ๊ด€์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์š”์ฒญ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐฐ์†ก ์ง€์—ฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โœ… ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, KODYnator๋Š” [ํ•ด์™ธ ์šด์†ก์‚ฌ ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜]์— HS CODE๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ†ต๊ด€์ง€์—ฐ์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3) ์‹ ๋ขฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ 

HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ณต์‹ ์œ ํ†ต์‚ฌ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜์—๋„ ๋” ํฐ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


4. “์ฒ˜์Œ ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜ BUDDY”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํŒ

  • ์ž์ฃผ ์“ฐ๋Š” HS CODE๋Š” ์—‘์…€ ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋ณ„๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋‘์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ถ”์ฒœ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ฒ˜์Œ ํ†ต๊ด€์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜์‹ค ๋•, ๊ด€์„ธ์‚ฌ, ์ˆ˜์ถœ์ž… ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

        โœ… K-POP ์ƒํ’ˆ์€ ๋ณตํ•ฉ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ ํ•œ ์ƒํ’ˆ์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฝ”๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, KODYnator์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•ˆ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ˆ˜์ž…๊ตญ ์„ธ๊ด€์˜ ํ•ด์„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋‚˜ ์„ธ์œจ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


5. ์ฐธ๊ณ  (๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณ„ HS CODE ์กฐํšŒ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์•ˆ๋‚ด)

  • KR ํ•œ๊ตญ : ๊ด€์„ธ์ฒญ ์œ ๋‹ˆํŒจ์Šค (UNI-PASS)

        ๐ŸŒhttps://unipass.customs.go.kr/clip/index.do

  • US ๋ฏธ๊ตญ : U.S. International Trade Commission – HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule)

        ๐ŸŒhttps://hts.usitc.gov


KODY GLOBAL

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