you should write all the numbers of the bar code (at least the first three digits) to know which country it is from. 1. If the bar code has only 12 digits, it is American. 2. If the bar code has 13 digits, it is more complicated, involving more than a dozen countries, 8-83 is Italian. 84 is Spanish; 85 is Cuban; 858 is Slovak; 859 is Czech; 86 is Serbian; 865 is Mongolian; 867 belongs to North Korea; 868-869 belongs to Shierqi; 87 is Dutch; 88 is Korean; 884 is from Cambodia; 885 is from Thailand; 888 is from Singapore; 89 is from India; 893 is from Vietnam; 896 is from Pakistan; 899 is from Indonesia.