Rules of origin
Also called: origin rules · menşe kuralları
The legal criteria that decide in which country goods are considered to have been produced. Preferential rules, set in each trade agreement or scheme, decide eligibility for reduced duty; non-preferential rules are used for MFN duties, trade remedies, quotas, labelling and statistics. Both rely on concepts such as wholly obtained goods and sufficient processing.
In practice
The same product can have one preferential and a different non-preferential origin, so the purpose of the origin question must be clear before answering it.
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UKRelated terms
- Preferential origin
- Origin status under the rules of a specific free trade agreement or unilateral preference scheme that entitles goods to a reduced or zero duty. It is…
- Non-preferential origin
- 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…
- Wholly obtained goods
- Goods produced entirely in one country without any foreign input, such as minerals extracted there, plants harvested there, animals born and raised…
- Sufficient processing
- The degree of working that non-originating materials must undergo for the final product to gain preferential origin. Agreements express it through…
- Cumulation of origin
- A rule that lets materials originating in a partner country, or in other countries linked by the same rules, be treated as originating in the country…