
[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.
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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.
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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)
๐https://unipass.customs.go.kr/clip/index.do
- US : U.S. International Trade Commission - HTS (Harmonised Tariff Schedule)
๐https://hts.usitc.gov
KODY GLOBAL
e-mail : b2b@haink.co
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๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ด๋ 1 : ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์
์ ์ด์ํ๋ ์ด๋ค์ ์ํ ์น์ ํ HS CODE ์๋ด์
1. ์ฒ์ ๋ฃ๋ “HS CODE”, ๊ผญ ์์์ผ ํ ๊น์?
์ฒ์ ์ฌ์
์ ์์ํ๋ BUDDY์๊ฒ ๊ผญ ํ์ํ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง์! K-POP ์ํ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์ด๋ค ์ํ์ด๋ ์์ถ์
์ ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋ง์ฃผํ๊ฒ ๋๋ “HS CODE”์
๋๋ค.
2. “HS CODE”๋?
์์
ํต๊ด์ ๊ผญ ํ์ํ ๊ตญ์ ๊ณตํต ์ธ์ด์
๋๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ ์ธ๊ณ๊ฐ ์ํ์ ๋ถ๋ฅํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ํด๋์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฒํธ์
๋๋ค.

์ด ์ฝ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ค์์ ํ๋จํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
- ์ํ์ ๊ตฌ๋ถ
- ๊ด์ธ์จ ๊ณ์ฐ
- ์์
๊ฐ๋ฅ ํ๋จ ์ฌ๋ถ
์ฝ๊ฒ ๋งํด, HS CODE๋ ์ํ์ ‘์ ๋ถ์ฆ’๊ณผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ญํ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ์จ๋ฒ, MD, ์์๋ด์ ๋ชจ๋ K-POP ์ํ์ด์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
3. HS CODE, ์ “์ค์”ํ ๊น์?
HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฑด, ์์
์ ์์์ด์, ์ ๋ขฐ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์
๋๋ค.
1) ์์ดํ ๊ด์ธ
๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ํ์ด๋ผ๋ HS CODE๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ ์ฉ๋๋ ๊ด์ธ์จ์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋๋ค. ์๋ชป ์
๋ ฅํ๋ฉด ๋ถํ์ํ ์ธ๊ธ์ ๋ ๋ผ ์๋ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋๋ก ๋ถ์ด์ต์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค.
2) ํต๊ด ์ง์ฐ ์๋ฐฉ
์๋ชป๋ HS CODE๋ก ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ์ธ๊ด์์ ๋ค์ ํ์ธํด์ผ ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ค๋ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ถ๊ฐ ์๋ฅ ์์ฒญ์ด๋ ๋ฐฐ์ก ์ง์ฐ๊น์ง ๋ฐ์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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๋ฐ๋ผ์, KODYnator๋ [ํด์ธ ์ด์ก์ฌ ์ ์ถ ์๋ฅ]์ HS CODE๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์
ํ์ฌ ํต๊ด์ง์ฐ์ ์๋ฐฉํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
3) ์ ๋ขฐ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋
HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ ํํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด ๊ณต์ ์ ํต์ฌ๋ก์์ ์ ๋ฌธ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค ์ ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋์ฒ์๋ ๋ ํฐ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
4. “์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋ BUDDY”๋ฅผ ์ํ ํ
- ์์ฃผ ์ฐ๋ HS CODE๋ ์์
ํ์ผ์ ์ด์ฉํ์ฌ ์ํ๋ณ๋ก ์ ๋ฆฌํด ๋์๋ ๊ฑธ ์ถ์ฒ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
- ์ฒ์ ํต๊ด์ ์ค๋นํ์ค ๋, ๊ด์ธ์ฌ, ์์ถ์
์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ข์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์
๋๋ค.
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K-POP ์ํ์ ๋ณตํฉ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ด๋ผ ํ ์ํ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฝ๋๊ฐ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๋๊ฐ ์์ผ๋, KODYnator์ ๋์์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์์
๊ตญ ์ธ๊ด์ ํด์ ๋ฐฉ์์ด๋ ์ธ์จ๋ ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์์ผ๋, ํจ๊ป ํ์ธํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ์ข์ต๋๋ค.
5. ์ฐธ๊ณ (๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ณ HS CODE ์กฐํ ์ฌ์ดํธ ์๋ด)
- KR ํ๊ตญ : ๊ด์ธ์ฒญ ์ ๋ํจ์ค (UNI-PASS)
๐https://unipass.customs.go.kr/clip/index.do
- US ๋ฏธ๊ตญ : U.S. International Trade Commission – HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule)
๐https://hts.usitc.gov
KODY GLOBAL
๋ฌธ์ : b2b@haink.co
[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
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.
โ 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.
โ 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)
๐https://unipass.customs.go.kr/clip/index.do
๐https://hts.usitc.gov
KODY GLOBAL
e-mail : b2b@haink.co
[K-BIZ ์ ๋ฌธ์] ์ ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ด๋ 1 : ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด์ํ๋ ์ด๋ค์ ์ํ ์น์ ํ HS CODE ์๋ด์
1. ์ฒ์ ๋ฃ๋ “HS CODE”, ๊ผญ ์์์ผ ํ ๊น์?
์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์์ํ๋ BUDDY์๊ฒ ๊ผญ ํ์ํ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง์! K-POP ์ํ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์ด๋ค ์ํ์ด๋ ์์ถ์ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋ง์ฃผํ๊ฒ ๋๋ “HS CODE”์ ๋๋ค.
2. “HS CODE”๋?
์์ ํต๊ด์ ๊ผญ ํ์ํ ๊ตญ์ ๊ณตํต ์ธ์ด์ ๋๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ ์ธ๊ณ๊ฐ ์ํ์ ๋ถ๋ฅํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ํด๋์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฒํธ์ ๋๋ค.
์ด ์ฝ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ค์์ ํ๋จํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
์ฝ๊ฒ ๋งํด, HS CODE๋ ์ํ์ ‘์ ๋ถ์ฆ’๊ณผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ญํ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ์จ๋ฒ, MD, ์์๋ด์ ๋ชจ๋ K-POP ์ํ์ด์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
3. HS CODE, ์ “์ค์”ํ ๊น์?
HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฑด, ์์ ์ ์์์ด์, ์ ๋ขฐ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ๋๋ค.
1) ์์ดํ ๊ด์ธ
๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ํ์ด๋ผ๋ HS CODE๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ ์ฉ๋๋ ๊ด์ธ์จ์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋๋ค. ์๋ชป ์ ๋ ฅํ๋ฉด ๋ถํ์ํ ์ธ๊ธ์ ๋ ๋ผ ์๋ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋๋ก ๋ถ์ด์ต์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค.
2) ํต๊ด ์ง์ฐ ์๋ฐฉ
์๋ชป๋ HS CODE๋ก ์ ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ์ธ๊ด์์ ๋ค์ ํ์ธํด์ผ ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ค๋ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ถ๊ฐ ์๋ฅ ์์ฒญ์ด๋ ๋ฐฐ์ก ์ง์ฐ๊น์ง ๋ฐ์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
โ ๋ฐ๋ผ์, KODYnator๋ [ํด์ธ ์ด์ก์ฌ ์ ์ถ ์๋ฅ]์ HS CODE๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ฌ ํต๊ด์ง์ฐ์ ์๋ฐฉํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
3) ์ ๋ขฐ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๋
HS CODE๋ฅผ ์ ํํ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด ๊ณต์ ์ ํต์ฌ๋ก์์ ์ ๋ฌธ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค ์ ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋์ฒ์๋ ๋ ํฐ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
4. “์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋ BUDDY”๋ฅผ ์ํ ํ
โ K-POP ์ํ์ ๋ณตํฉ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ด๋ผ ํ ์ํ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฝ๋๊ฐ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๋๊ฐ ์์ผ๋, KODYnator์ ๋์์ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
5. ์ฐธ๊ณ (๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ณ HS CODE ์กฐํ ์ฌ์ดํธ ์๋ด)
๐https://unipass.customs.go.kr/clip/index.do
๐https://hts.usitc.gov
KODY GLOBAL
๋ฌธ์ : b2b@haink.co