Certified Classification Specialist – March 15-19
NEW! Now you can earn your Certified Classification Specialist Certification LIVE ONLINE!
Requiring accuracy in HS classification globally is a necessity, yet one of the most difficult tasks corporations face today. The Certified Classification Specialist™ (CCLS™) program has been developed to address this challenge and offer companies the opportunity to train multiple key personnel together to ensure a systematic approach is taken to properly classify all product lines.
This premiere program, for importers, exporters, customs brokers, and freight forwarders, provides a detailed approach to mastering the use of the Harmonized System, ensuring accuracy for classification on a global basis. The CCLS™ is the only program offered globally that provides in-depth understanding of how to defend your classification code with any Customs agency around the world.
The program offers a testing plan to confirm your knowledge and understanding of how classification rules work, as well as how to classify and defend classification decisions.
Focus is on the correct classification of product at the heading level, with each section highlighted through developed forms and questionnaires by product type that allow a classifier to seek and secure necessary product descriptions to ensure proper classification. Specialized course material will ensure any classifier can work through section and chapter notes with ease by interpreting and highlighting the most difficult sections. Decision trees will guide classifiers in this process, allowing classification to be completed at the subheading level.
This unique course will cover major sections of the Harmonized System in 5 days. Earning the CCLS™ designation supports a strong compliance program and moves the company toward a strong reasonable care process that is defendable for Customs purposes. As classification is the basis of most free trade agreement qualifications, participants will be well suited to develop a program with greater benefits to the company.
Course Curriculum & Content
During this 5-day training, leading experts will show participants the most effective way to accurately classify thousands of products. The methodology created for the CCLS program will provide you with an accurate process to develop an HS decision tree.
Curriculum content includes:
- General Rules of Interpretation
- Understanding HS and how it is organized
- HS number and coding
- Review of Section & Chapter Notes which have meaning “throughout the tariff”
- Review of “basket headings”
- Identification of external classification guidance, such as the Explanatory Notes
- Address and prepare effective Binding Ruling Requests
- How to document and defend your classification
Deeper review into specific subject categories for the following commodity groups:
- Chemical, Minerals, Pharmaceuticals
- Parts & Accessories of Plastic, Rubber, Glass and Metal
- Machinery & Electronics
- Textiles
- Automotive Classifications
In addition, we will cover “difficult to classify merchandise,” including kits.
Testing
The certification process requires individuals to take an examination at the end of this program to demonstrate proficiency. There are no additional fees for each initial course exam.
If you do not pass the exam the first time, you can retest two more times. Retesting must be done within 3 months of the initial test and will be taken online through Global Trade Academy’s e-Learning platform.