And a great selling point for ERP systems like SAP. All our customs tariffs were programmed into it by our German IT & regulatory team (motto of "SAP works just change your entire business process").
These highly flexible folk would ask the Stuttgart customs office to comment on any areas of "discussion" internally. So an ink always called imitation gold became brown. Sadly after that we sold not a lot it seemed the customers didn't get it.
The best was export into Russia. All ink suppliers added 0.01% if TiO2 to a clear varnish to make it a pigmented ink. A perfectly legal thing to do based upon the regs and giving a zero duty rating. Our team in Germany said no it is a varnish upping the duty to 25% from memory.
Happy days. I'm glad I am out of it as tariff codes are a nightmare.
