About the WCO Bookshop

Who are the WCO Customs rules meant for?

The World Customs Organization’s Customs standards and procedures apply across a huge value chain and a wide range of stakeholders in international trade:

• goods manufacturers and industrial producers, to help them to define their import needs and assess their export trade capacities;
• wholesalers, importers and exporters;
• Customs brokers, experts in Customs formalities;
• specialist legal advisers;
• international carriers and logisticians;
• intergovernmental and international organizations, on the basis of trade agreements and arrangements;
• States and their administrations responsible for supervising trade in goods, compliance with the rules, Customs formalities and recovery of Customs duties;
• training bodies in this sector.

In which languages are the services and products available?

The platform as a whole and some content are available in the WCO’s two official languages, English and French. Some content, such as the HS Nomenclature, the Explanatory Notes and the Customs Valuation Compendium, is available in Spanish, and the HS Nomenclature is also available in Russian. When you select your product or content, you will be able to see the available languages and select the one you want.