Commodity code (was: Re: [ubl] Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 5|6 May 2008)

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

[roberto@javest.com:]

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| 2. Commodity Code (also known as "Harmonized Code" and "Combined
| Nomenclature")
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| cac:CommodityClassification/cbc:CommodityCode
| 
| Product "Combined Nomenclature" (CN 2008)
| 
| Code List description and Responsible Agency:
| http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nomenclatures/index.cfm?TargetUrl=DSP_GEN_DESC_VIEW_NOHDR&StrNom=CN_2008&StrLanguageCode=EN
| 
| Code List formats (HTML, CSV, XML, MDB, XLS):
| http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nomenclatures/index.cfm?TargetUrl=LST_CLS_DLD&StrNom=CN_2008&StrLanguageCode=EN&StrLayoutCode=HIERARCHIC
| 
| Sample Code List (HTML):
| http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nomenclatures/index.cfm?TargetUrl=ACT_OTH_DFLT_LAYOUT&StrNom=CN_2008&StrLanguageCode=EN
| 
| I really think we can publish this code list. Inside the description there
| is the email contact of the responsible agency.
| This codelist is well known in the cross-border trade, is multilingual and
| updated yearly.

Based on a cursory view of these materials, I suspect that we
could legally publish a genericode version as part of UBL 2.1.
But there could be implementation problems related to the
hierarchical nature of the commodity taxonomy; this is a big and
complicated set of classifications.  The fact that the list changes
yearly could also present some problems.

Jon