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GS1 Company Prefixes are based on the GS1 Prefixes below. Since GS1 user companies can manufacture products anywhere in the world, GS1 Prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product.

Code: Country

001-019: UPC-A compatible - United States

020-029: UPC-A compatible - Used to issue restricted circulation numbers within a geographic region

030-039: UPC-A compatible - United States drugs (see United States National Drug Code)

040-049: UPC-A compatible - Used to issue restricted circulation numbers within a company

050-059: UPC-A compatible - GS1 US reserved for future use

060-099: UPC-A compatible - United States

100-139: United States

200-299: Used to issue GS1 restricted circulation number within a geographic region

300-379: France and Monaco

380: Bulgaria

383: Slovenia

385: Croatia

387: Bosnia and Herzegovina

389: Montenegro

390: Republic of Kosovo (EAN-imposed, no GS1 Member Organisation)

400-440: Germany (440 code inherited from former East Germany upon reunification in 1990)

450-459: Japan (new Japanese Article Number range)

460-469: Russia (barcodes inherited from the Soviet Union)

470: Kyrgyzstan

471: Taiwan

474: Estonia

475: Latvia

476: Azerbaijan

477: Lithuania

478: Uzbekistan

479: Sri Lanka

480: Philippines

481: Belarus

482: Ukraine

483: Turkmenistan

484: Moldova

485: Armenia

486: Georgia

487: Kazakhstan

488: Tajikistan

489: Hong Kong

490-499: Japan (original Japanese Article Number range)

500-509: United Kingdom

520-521: Greece

528: Lebanon

529: Cyprus

530: Albania

531: North Macedonia

535: Malta

539: Ireland

540-549: Belgium and Luxembourg

560: Portugal

569: Iceland

570-579: Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland

590: Poland

594: Romania

599: Hungary

600-601: South Africa

603: Ghana

604: Senegal

607: Oman

608: Bahrain

609: Mauritius

611: Morocco

612: Somalia[citation needed]

613: Algeria

615: Nigeria

616: Kenya

617: Cameroon

618: Ivory Coast

619: Tunisia

620: Tanzania

621: Syria

622: Egypt

623: 'Managed by GS1 Global Office for future MO' (was Brunei until May 2021)

624: Libya

625: Jordan

626: Iran

627: Kuwait

628: Saudi Arabia

629: United Arab Emirates

630: Qatar

631: Namibia

640-649: Finland

680-681: China

690-699: China

700-709: Norway

729: Israel

730-739: Sweden

740: Guatemala

741: El Salvador

742: Honduras

743: Nicaragua

744: Costa Rica

745: Panama

746: Dominican Republic

750: Mexico

754-755: Canada

759: Venezuela

760-769: Switzerland and Liechtenstein

770-771: Colombia

773: Uruguay

775: Peru

777: Bolivia

778-779: Argentina

780: Chile

784: Paraguay

786: Ecuador

789-790: Brazil

800-839: Italy, San Marino and Vatican City

840-849: Spain and Andorra

850: Cuba

858: Slovakia

859: Czech Republic (barcode inherited from Czechoslovakia)

860: Serbia (barcode inherited from Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro)

865: Mongolia

867: North Korea

868-869: Turkey

870-879: Netherlands

880-881: South Korea

883: Myanmar

884: Cambodia

885: Thailand

888: Singapore

890: India

893: Vietnam

894: 'Managed by GS1 Global Office for future MO' ( Bangladesh?)[citation needed]

896: Pakistan

899: Indonesia

900-919: Austria

930-939: Australia

940-949: New Zealand

950: GS1 Global Office: Used to support territories & countries where no GS1 Member Organisation operates

951: Used to issue General Manager Numbers for the EPC General Identifier (GID) scheme as defined by the EPC Tag Data Standard

952: Used for demonstrations and examples of the GS1 system

955: Malaysia

958: Macau

960-961: GS1 UK Office: GTIN-8 allocations

962-969: GS1 Global Office: GTIN-8 allocations

977: Serial publications (ISSN)

978-979: 'Bookland' (ISBN) - 979-0 used for sheet music ('Musicland', ISMN-13, replaces deprecated ISMN M- numbers)

980: Refund receipts

981-983: GS1 coupon identification for common currency areas

990-999: GS1 coupon identification

Note:

GS1 member companies can manufacture products anywhere in the world and can license prefixes from the GS1 organisation of their choice, GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product.

GS1 prefixes not listed above are reserved by GS1 Global Office for allocations in countries where no GS1 Member Organisation established and for future use within the GS1 system.

These are:

140-199

381, 382, 384, 386 & 388

390-399

441-449

472 & 473

510-519

522-527

532-534 & 536-538

550-559

561-568

580-589

591-593 & 595-598

602 & 605-606

610, 612, 614 & 623

632-639

650-679

682-689

710-728

747-749

751-753 & 756-758

772, 774 & 776

781-783, 785, 787 & 788

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