HS 2028 changes

National tariffs have to catch up before that date. As of 5 November 2026 we haven't seen final 2028 tariffs from the US, UK or EU, so your national digits and duty rates aren't known. What you can use now is the six-digit structure.

These examples come from the WCO's own Table I and its announcements. The table is a guide and has no legal status.

Our own rough count of Table I has chapters 03, 39, 29 and 30 carrying the most new or amended lines. Use it as a guide to where to look. It isn't an official figure.

1. Pull your HS codes, at six digits, from your product data, and sort by value.
2. Run them against the correlation tables. An ex in the 2022 column means only part of the old code moved. So you have to read the product again rather than swap numbers.
3. Mark the ones where the old code splits. These need a human decision, and you may need new data, such as polymer type or whether something's single-use.
4. Check contracts and documents that quote codes. Trade agreements' rules of origin, licences, certificates and supplier declarations all quote them. The product-specific rule for your goods may be written against an older edition.
5. List your binding rulings. A nomenclature change can end them early. HMRC and EU rulings generally run 3 years, so anything issued now can be caught by the change.
6. Watch the national tariff. Don't update your system until the destination has published. The US process needs a presidential proclamation, and until then we can only say what's proposed.

As an illustration, say you sell 40 SKUs of vitamin tablets currently under 2106.90. Table I describes a "possible transfer" to new heading 21.07, so check each one against the new heading's legal notes. That's easy if they all behave the same way, but the rate on the new line isn't known, and any FTA rule of origin written for 2106.90 will need rereading. Do that check for your top lines first.