Non-preferential origin
Also called: economic origin · tercihsiz menşe
Origin determined by the general rules of a customs territory, independent of any trade agreement. In the EU, goods produced in more than one country take the origin of the country of the last substantial, economically justified processing; the US applies a substantial transformation test. It is used for anti-dumping duties, sanctions, quotas, marking and statistics.
In practice
Trade-remedy duties and many sanctions depend on non-preferential origin, so moving final assembly to another country does not change origin unless the processing is substantial.
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UKRelated terms
- Rules of origin
- The legal criteria that decide in which country goods are considered to have been produced. Preferential rules, set in each trade agreement or…
- Last substantial transformation
- The core test of non-preferential origin. In the EU (UCC Article 60), goods involving more than one country originate where they underwent their last…
- Certificate of origin
- A document certifying the non-preferential origin of goods, usually issued by chambers of commerce. It is required by some importing countries, by…
- Anti-dumping duty
- An additional duty imposed on imports sold at prices below their normal value in the exporting country, when this causes injury to domestic industry.…
- Circumvention
- Changing the pattern of trade to avoid a trade-remedy duty without real economic justification, for example by assembling goods in a third country or…