Duty rates, scope and application of international agreements, such as the ITA – the Information Technology Agreement, trade remedies, statistics, they all need a common understanding on how a good is identified worldwide, ensuring that what are "apples" in one country are not "oranges" in another: this tool is given by international customs classifications.

As international trade becomes more complex, international customs classifications are becoming the main multi purpose tool to help governments and industry for fiscal and regulatory compliance.

Semiconductor products are evolving everyday with technology, and customs classifications are not revised as often to catch the new products in the right category, or to catch them at all.

 
Classification revisions ensure that the classifications are kept up to date in the light of changes in technology or in patterns of international trade. ESIA FTG is working pro-actively to ensure that classification revisions capture correctly the new products on the market, or give input where an interpretation of the related heading is required.