Terms of use of the EN/HSCDB (Explanatory Notes / The Harmonized System Commodity Database) in the framework of the Tares.
You recognize that:
the World Customs Organization (WCO, established in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council) is the sole owner of all intellectual property rights to the commodity descriptors and commercial names, the accompanying six-digit HS (Harmonized System) codes, the Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized System, the Classification Opinions, the Amendments to the Harmonized System Nomenclature and the Correlation Tables between the 1996 version and the 2002 version of the Harmonized System (hereafter collectively known as the "EN/HSCDB") contained in this web site;
use of the EN/HSCDB is strictly limited to personal, non-commercial use;
the EN/HSCDB cannot be used, downloaded, displayed, amended, adapted, translated, distributed, transmitted, copied, transferred, printed or otherwise reproduced or disseminated in any form or by any means whatsoever, even if all of the intellectual property notices or other references contained therein are maintained;
use of the EN/HSCDB themselves, independently of the Tares, is prohibited;
the EN/HSCDB are supplied "as is", without any further guarantee; therefore, while the WCO makes every effort to ensure that the EN/HSCDB are accurate and complete, and issues amending supplements to them from time to time, under no circumstances may the WCO or the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security be held responsible (individually, jointly or severally) for any damage suffered as a result of the use of the Tares containing the EN/HSCDB, directly or indirectly, whether through negligence or any other cause;
as soon as a new version of the EN/HSCDB is released, use of the old version(s) shall be prohibited;
only documents published in paper version by the WCO shall be regarded as authentic;
the WCO reserves the right to amend, at its own discretion and at any time, all or part of the present terms of use;
any dispute arising out of the implementation or interpretation of these provisions shall be settled in accordance with Part I of Council Decision No. XXXIII of November 1954.
I have read the above provisions, I accept them and I undertake to comply with them.