Sonel2

February 2023

Hello Sonel2. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Sonel2. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sonel2|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. MrOllie (talk) 16:24, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Dear moderator, the updates are prepared by the technical officers in the Nomenclature Sub-directorate of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and uploaded by our officer in charge of intranet and internet updates.  The WCO is an intergovernmental organisation and the Nomenclature Sub-directorate acts as the Secretariat for the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, which is the convention that establishes the Harmonized System and for the Harmonized System Committee responsible for the ongoing updates to the Harmonized System. 

It was noted by the WCO that the page did not reflect the latest updates (HS 2022) to the Harmonized System and had some problems with some of the material.    The links were also problematic, for example the link to Canada’s tariff takes you to an archive page for the 2016 tariff, not a lot of use for someone looking for the Canadian tariff legally in force.

If it is the references to the Explanatory Notes that include a link to our bookshop – that is a little hard to avoid as the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes are the only official commentary on the Harmonized System Convention, are used and quoted by Customs, brokers and trade in general,  and are, sadly, not free, so only available either from the bookstore or behind the paywall of the WCO Trade Tools.  But we could lose the link if necessary.   

The link to the WCO Trade Tools has (free and paid content) jut to let people know, but again we can lose the notation about that.  It is only things such as the Explanatory Notes and Valuation Compendium behind the paywall.  What the WCO Trade Tools does contain for free is access to the entire text of the HS in a far more user-friendly form than the series of pdfs on the WCO site.  It also contain quite a lot of other information for free.  Access to the free information doesn’t require sign-in or registration, it is just provided as a public service. 

As the page stands, it is out-of-date and problematic, so hopefully we can proceed with the updates.  If you want to check out the organisation, please feel free to go to our website  www.wcoomd.org or to email the Tariff and Trade Affairs Directorate for more information (valuation@wcoomd.org) Sonel2 (talk) 09:07, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Again, please read over WP:PAID. You will need to make the required disclosures as outlined there - failing to do so means that you are violating Wikipedia's terms of use. Once you have done that, you may suggest factual corrections at the article's associated talk page as explained in the links above. You should not edit the article directly. MrOllie (talk) 14:13, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

I updated my personal page mentioning that I'm working for the WCO. I hope this would help to allow me to update the page of the harmonized system. Sonel2 (talk) 15:49, 4 April 2023 (UTC)