2019 Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC)
The Philippine Standard Commodity Classification is a detailed classification of all commodities on imports and exports being used for tariff and statistical purposes. The existing PSCC is an integration of the ASEAN Harmonized Tariff Nomenclature (AHTN) based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) issued by the World Customs Organizations (WCO) and the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) developed by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). The PSCC serves as a standard statistical nomenclature for economic analysis, investment purposes as well as for planning and policy formulation; serves as a standard scheme on commodity groupings or classes necessary for maintaining continuity of existing series on trade statistics and for international comparability of the country’s trade statistics; and as an aid in the implementation of tariff and trade regulations.
General Principles and Basic Considerations in the Preparation of Standard Commodity Classifications
- In the preparation of international as well as national standard commodity classifications, commodities were grouped into sections and headings as far as practicable based on the following generally accepted principles:
- Nature of merchandise and the materials used in its production
- Processing stage, whether crude, semi-manufactured or fully manufactured
- Market practices and the uses of the products
- Importance of the commodity in terms of world trade
- Technological changes
- The following criteria were used in selecting commodities that need to be provided with separate 10-digit PSCC Codes:
- Trade value of the commodity
- Potential of the commodity to be a major export and import product
- Intended policy use of the detailed commodity data, e.g. monitoring and preservation of endangered species
- Regulated or prohibited commodities per existing laws, trade agreements and directives shall be provided separate code for monitoring purposes
- Other considerations in the preparation of the 2019 PSCC include the following:
- The first six digits of the 2019 PSCC should correspond to the 2017 HS while the first eight digits should correspond to the 2017 AHTN and the AHTN tariff headings shall be maintained as is.
- A statistical suffix, which is limited to two digits, shall be added to the eight-digit AHTN code to come up with the 10-digit PSCC Code in order to accommodate the commodities included in the PSCC but are not included in the AHTN.
- Alphanumeric codes shall also be used to reflect the in-quota and out-quota classification for selected commodities.
2019 PSCC Sections
The 2019 PSCC contains the detailed classification of all commodities that enter the Philippine trade, grouped into the following broad categories called Sections:| Section | Description |
| I | Live animals; animal products |
| II | Vegetable products |
| III | Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes |
| IV | Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes |
| V | Mineral products |
| VI | Products of the chemical or allied industries |
| VII | Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof |
| VIII | Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) |
| IX | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork |
| X | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof |
| XI | Textile and textile articles |
| XII | Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair |
| XIII | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware |
| XIV | Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metal clad with precious metals and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coins |
| XV | Base metals and articles of base metals |
| XVI | Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles |
| XVII | Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment |
| XVIII | Optical photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof |
| XIX | Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof |
| XX | Miscellaneous manufactured articles |
| XXI | Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques |
First level (Chapter) – Chapters are represented by first two digits
Second level (Heading) – Headings are represented by the first four digits
Third level (HS Subheading) – HS subheadings are represented by the first six digits
Fourth level (AHTN subheading) – AHTN subheadings are represented by the first eight digits
Fifth level (PSCC) – The ninth and tenth-digit codes added to the eight-digit AHTN codes refer to the PSCC commodities that are not in one-to-one correspondence with the AHTN
For example: Section II – Vegetable products
PSCC Code: 0712.90.10-01 Garlic powder
Changes adopted in the 2019 PSCC
a. Examples of new AHTN and subheadings provided with 10-digit PSCC.
| COMMODITY DESCRIPTION | 2019 PSCC |
| Section I – Live Animals; Animal Products | |
| Oxen | 0102.29.11-00 |
| Bangai cardinal fish (Pterapogon kauderni) | 0301.19.91-00 |
| Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) | 0301.19.92-00 |
| Fresh water live fish: Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.) | 0301.99.41-00 |
| Swamp barb (Puntius chola) | 0302.89.22-00 |
| Livers, roes and milt | 0302.91.00-00 |
| Shark fins | 0302.92.00-00 |
| Indian mackerels (Rastrelliger kanagurta); Island mackerels (Rastrelliger faughni) | 0303.59.10-00 |
| Silver pomfrets (Pampus spp.) | 0303.59.20-00 |
| Black pomfrets (Parastromatus niger) | 0303.89.17-00 |
| Dogfish and other sharks | 0304.56.00-00 |
| Rays and skates (Rajidae) | 0304.57.00-00 |
| Smoked: Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.) | 0306.11.10-00 |
| Smoked: Lobsters (Homarus spp.) | 0306.12.10-00 |
| For Breeding: Giant river prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) | 0306.36.13-00 |
| Live: Giant river prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) | 0306.36.23-00 |
| Fresh or chilled: Giant river prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) | 0306.36.33-00 |
| Section III – Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | |
| Refined oil (Palm Oil): Refined, Bleached and Deodorized (RBD), in packings of a net weight not exceeding 20 kg | 1511.90.20-01 |
| Other RBD | 1511.90.20-09 |
| Section VII – Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof | |
| Natural rubber compounded with substances other than carbon or silica | 4005.99.20-00 |
| Water stop | 4008.21.30-00 |
| Rubber soling sheet | 4008.21.40-00 |
| Rubber hose of a kind used for gas stove | 4009.31.20-00 4009.32.20-00 4009.41.10-00 4009.42.20-00 |
| Finger stalls | 4014.90.50-00 |
| Section IX – Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork | |
| Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms | 4401.31.00 4401.39.00 |
| Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, not agglomerated | 4401.40.00 |
| Coniferous | 4403.11 |
| Non-coniferous | 4403.12 |
| Section X – Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof | |
| Other, of bamboo | 4706.30.00-00 |
| Newsprint, in rolls, of a width exceeding 28 cm but not exceeding 36 cm: | |
| Weighing not more than 55 g/m2 | 4801.00.11-00 |
| Weighing more than 55 g/m2 | 4801.00.21-00 |
| Of a kind used for writing, printing and other graphic purposes, in rolls of not more than 15 cm in width or in rectangular (including square) sheets of which no side exceeds 36 cm in the unfolded state | 4802.54.40-00 |
| Multi-ply paper and paperboard | 4802.54.50-00 |
| Section XII – Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair | |
| For parts of footwear (including uppers whether or not attached to soles other than outer soles); removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, leggings and similar articles, and parts thereof: | |
| Of copper | 6406.90.22-00 |
| Of aluminium | 6406.90.23-00 |
| Other, of plastics | 6406.90.33-00 |
| Section XIV – Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metal clad with precious metals and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coins | |
| In lumps, ingots or cast bars | 7108.12.10-00 7110.11.10-00 7110.21.10-00 7110.31.10-00 7110.41.10-00 |
| Section XVII – Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment | |
| With both compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel) and electric motor as motors for propulsion | 8702.20 |
| With both spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion | 8702.30 |
| With only electric motor for propulsion | 8702.40 |
| Other vehicles, with both spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, other than those capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power | 8703.50 |
| Other vehicles, with both spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power | 8703.60 |
| Other vehicles, with both compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel) and electric motor as motors for propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power | 8703.70 |
| Other vehicles, with only electric motor for propulsion | 8703.80 |
| Of a g.v.w. exceeding 24 t | 8702.10.42-00 8702.10.72-00 8702.10.82-00 8702.10.91-00 8702.20.21-00 8702.20.32-00 8702.20.41-00 8702.20.62-00 8702.20.72-00 8702.20.91-00 8702.30.21-00 8702.30.31-00 8702.30.41-00 8702.30.61-00 8702.30.71-00 8702.30.91-00 8702.40.21-00 8702.40.31-00 8702.40.41-00 8702.40.61-00 8702.40.71-00 8702.40.91-00 8702.90.21-00 8702.90.31-00 8702.90.51-00 8702.90.61-00 |
| All-Terrain Vehicles (ATV) | 8703.21.12-00 8703.21.42-00 |
| Sedan | 8703.21.15-00 8703.21.45-01 8703.21.45-02 8703.21.45-09 |
b. Examples of new, emerging, highlighted and significant commodities provided with 10-digit separate code.
| COMMODITY DESCRIPTION | 2019 PSCC |
| Section I – Live Animals; Animal Products | |
| Fry for breeding: Carp | 0301.99.21-01 |
| Ricefield eel (Asian swamp eel) | 0301.99.49-01 |
| Stonefish (Synanceia spp.) | 0301.99.59-04 |
| Bali Sardinella (Sardinella lemuru) | 0302.43.00-01 |
| Indian oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) | 0302.43.00-02 |
| Fresh or chilled: Roundscad (Galunggong) | 0302.49.00-01 |
| Moonfish | 0303.89.19-04 |
| Section II – Vegetable products | |
| Fresh or chilled: Salad beetroot | 0706.90.00-02 |
| Salsify | 0706.90.00-03 |
| Celeriac | 0706.90.00-04 |
| Pumpkin | 0709.93.00-01 |
| Squash | 0709.93.00-02 |
| Chayote (Sayote) | 0709.93.00-03 |
| Bitter gourd (Ampalaya) | 0709.93.00-04 |
| Bamboo shoots | 0709.99.90-01 |
| Coconut shoots | 0709.99.90-02 |
| Frozen: Bamboo shoots,(uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), | 0710.80.00-01 |
| Coconut shoots (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water | 0710.80.00-02 |
| Carrots, (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water) | 0710.80.00-03 |
| Latundan (Musa Acuminata) | 0803.90.90-02 |
| Lakatan | 0803.90.90-03 |
| Chia seeds | 1207.99.90-01 |
| Soursop or guyabano (Annona muricata) | 0810.90.94-02 |
| Bilimbi (kamias) | 0810.90.99-04 |
| Rosemary extract | 1302.19.90-01 |
| Mango flour | 1106.30.00-03 |
| Calamansi powder | 1106.30.00-04 |
| Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: | |
| Jackfruit (langka) | 0811.90.00-03 |
| Banana | 0811.90.00-04 |
| Durian | 0811.90.00-05 |
| Bilimbi (kamias) | 0811.90.00-06 |
| Section IV – Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes | |
| Of chicken (sausage) | 1601.00.10-04 |
| Bamboo shoots (prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid) | 2001.90.90-05 |
| Calamansi jam | 2007.99.20-02 |
| Purple jam (Ube) | 2007.99.20-03 |
| Mango jam | 2007.99.20-04 |
| Banana vinegar | 2209.00.00-06 |
| Apple cider vinegar | 2209.00.00-07 |
| Banana dehydrated | 2008.99.40-05 |
| Banana chips or crackers | 2008.99.40-06 |
| Coconut water, other than concentrates | 2009.89.99-15 |
| Fried garlic | 2005.99.10-08 |
| Section V – Mineral products | |
| Ores of gold | 2616.90.00-04 |
| Platinum group metals | 2616.90.00-05 |
| Section VI – Products of the chemical or allied industries | |
| Isobutane | 2901.10.00-04 |
| Propane | 2901.10.00-05 |
| Cyclodecane | 2901.10.00-06 |
| Tryptophan | 2933.99.90-01 |
| Losartan potassium USP | 2933.99.90-02 |
| Pizotifen | 2934.99.90-01 |
| Acesulfame-k | 2934.99.90-02 |
| Citicoline monosodium salt | 2934.99.90-03 |
| Ketoconazole | 2934.99.90-04 |
| Anti-hypertension medicaments | 3004.90.89-02 |
| Anti-diabetes medicaments | 3004.90.89-03 |
| Hair dyes and bleaches | 3305.90.00-05 |
| Modified starches | 3505.10.90-02 |
| Section VIII – Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) | |
| Of bovine, of a weight per skin not exceeding 8 kg when simply dried, 10 kg when dry-salted, or 14 kg when fresh, wet-salted or otherwise preserved | 4101.20.00-01 |
| Of bovine, of a weight per skin more than 14 kg but not exceeding 16 kg when fresh or wet-salted | 4101.20.00-02 |
| Of equine | 4101.20.00-04 |
| Of bovine, fresh or wet-salted | 4101.50.00-01 |
| Of bovine, otherwise preserved | 4101.50.00-02 |
| Section XI – Textile and textile articles | |
| Coconut dust/peat in bricks | 5305.00.22-02 |
| Abaca fibres: | |
| S-JK | 5305.00.23-26 |
| S-MI | 5305.00.23-27 |
| S-L | 5305.00.23-28 |
| S-O | 5305.00.23-31 |
| L | 5305.00.23-32 |
| Y2 | 5305.00.23-33 |
| Other textile fibre: | |
| Banana | 5305.00.90-04 |
| Water hyacinth | 5305.00.90-05 |
| Other yarn: | |
| Banana yarn | 5308.90.90-02 |
| Water hyacinth | 5308.90.90-04 |
| Polyamide | 5401.10.10-02 |
| Rayon filaments | 5401.20.10-01 |
| Section XIII – Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware | |
| Abrasive paper | 6805.20.00-02 |
| Other roofing products | 6807.10.00-02 |
| Boral plaster board (Gypsum board) | 6809.19.90-01 |
| Plaster board | 6809.90.90-01 |
| Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) sandwich wall panel | 6810.91.00-02 |
| Wall panels, other than EPS sandwich wall panel | 6810.91.00-03 |
| Articles of artificial stone | 6810.91.00-04 |
| Coir boards | 6811.82.90-01 |
| Other, Fibre-cement boards | 6811.82.90-02 |
| Touchstones for testing precious metal | 6815.99.00-01 |
| Section XIV – Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metal clad with precious metals and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coins | |
| Gold pellet | 7108.12.90-01 |
| Section XV – Base metals and articles of base metals | |
| Wire rods, other than of high speed steel or silicon-manganese steel | 7227.90.00-01 |
| Copper bonding wire | 7408.19.00-03 |
| Section XVI – Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles | |
| Nitrogen gas generator | 8405.10.00-02 |
| Incinerators, other than waste incinerator | 8417.80.00-05 |
| Machines for sheeting rubber | 8420.10.90-02 |
| Printing by the ink-jet process | 8443.31.91-01 8443.31.99-01 |
| Printing by the laser process | 8443.31.91-02 8443.31.99-02 |
| Thermal printers | 8443.32.90-01 |
| Shredding machines | 8472.90.60-04 |
| Purifying machinery and apparatus whether or not for domestic use | 8421.21.19-06 8421.21.22-03 8421.21.23-03 8421.22.30-03 |
| Solid State drives | 8471.70.99-01 |
| DRAM and Non-DRAM | 8542.31.00-05 8542.32.00-05 |
| Multi-component Integrated Circuits (MCO): | |
| Sensors | 8542.31.00-06 8542.32.00-06 8542.33.00-05 8542.39.00-05 |
| Actuators | 8542.31.00-07 8542.32.00-07 8542.33.00-06 8542.39.00-06 |
| Oscillators | 8542.31.00-08 8542.32.00-08 8542.33.00-07 8542.39.00-07 |
| Resonators | 8542.31.00-11 8542.32.00-11 8542.33.00-08 8542.39.00-08 |
| Section XVIII – Optical photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof. | |
| Periscopes | 9013.10.00-03 |
| Cannulae | 9018.39.90-02 |
| Pedometers | 9029.10.90-02 |
| Mileometer | 9029.10.90-03 |
| Stroboscopes | 9029.20.90-02 |
| Electric guitar | 9207.90.00-01 |
c. Examples of prohibited commodities provided with 10-digit separate code.
| COMMODITY DESCRIPTION | 2019 PSCC |
| Section VI – Products of the chemical or allied industries | |
| Example of substances that deplete the ozone layer based on the KIGALI Amendments to the Montreal Protocol | |
| Trifluoromethane (HFC-23) | 2903.39.90-02 |
| Difluoromethane (HFC-32) | 2903.39.90-03 |
| Fluoromethane (HFC-41), 1,2 – difluoroethane and 1,1 - difluoroethane (HFC-152a) | 2903.39.90-04 |
| Other, containing saturated fluorinated derivative of methanes (F = 1 to 3), ethanes (F = 2 to 5) and propanes (F=5 to 7), 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane (HFC-365MFC) and 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane (HFC-43-10mee) | 3824.74.90-02 |
| Containing trifluoromethane (HFC-23) or perfluorocarbons (PFCs) but not containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFs) or hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) | 3824.78.00-01 |
| Containing trifluromethane (HFC-23) | 3824.78.00-02 |
d. Example of reclassified commodity.
| COMMODITY DESCRIPTION | 2019 PSCC |
| Section III – Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes | |
| Virgin coconut oil | 1513.11.00-01 |
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