Defining Affected products

Selected products are those for which you would like to see individual (or aggregate) trade flows. Selecting product is similar to selecting products in Advanced Query for tariffs.

Click on << Select >> to display the product selection panel

Elements of the Product Selection panel

The product selection panel is composed of 3 main areas

• The Product Search Area
• The nomenclature selection list allows choosing the nomenclature you want to use for selecting product categories.
• The product selection area is where you actually make your product selection.

Product selection always starts by choosing a Nomenclature. Then you can select products, product categories or product groups within the selected nomenclature using different modes of selection. Note that you can select products from different nomenclatures in the same query.

Selecting a Nomenclature

The first step in any product selection is to choose a nomenclature. Each nomenclature has its own product structure and level of details. If you are not sure about the nomenclature you can use the Search feature to search for a product across nomenclatures.

Nomenclatures can be categorized into two groups:

• HS Combined: the HS Combined nomenclature combines all current and historical revisions of HS. As a country reports its tariff scheduled for a given year in only one revision (HS88/92 (H0), HS96(H1), HS2002(H2) or HS2007(H3)), combining these different revisions enables users to choose products without having to know in which nomenclature a particular country reports in a particular year. You select products in HS combined, WITS returns results in the native HS version. See About WITS HS Combined Nomenclature for detailed presentation.
• WITS derived nomenclatures: these are all other nomenclatures included in WITS and which data are converted to by using the concordance files.

To select a nomenclature:

1. Open the Nomenclature dropdown list;
2. Click on the desired nomenclature.

The product classification corresponding to the selected nomenclature is displayed in the product selection tree, the related product clusters displayed in the cluster selection box and the standard and your product groups in the corresponding selection boxes:

Products can be selected using through five modes of selection you choose from the product selection area titled Select product by:

• Search;
• Items;
• Product Selection Tree;
• Clusters;
• Aggregates;

Note: If you click on << Modify >> while modifying a query you will get an alert message Click OK to overwrite. Click Cancel to give new name. If you click OK then the selection for the existing query is changed and if you click Cancel you will be provided with a screen to rename the query with a new Query Name and Query Description .If you clicked Cancel by mistake you can hit the Cancel button in the new screen and not rename the query.

Next: Defining a Tariff Change

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