An ONIX code which identifies the status of a published product. Optional and non-repeating, but required if publishing status is not identified at market level in <MarketPublishingDetail> (P.25).

Where the element is sent by a sender who is not the publisher, based on information that has been previously supplied by the publisher, it is strongly recommended that it should carry a datestamp attribute to indicate its likely reliability. See Section 1 for further details of the datestamp attribute.