docAnnex 1: Recommended Changes to List Rules
LIST OF CONDITIONS REGARDING WORKING OR PROCESSING REQUIRED TO BE CARRIED OUT ON NON-ORIGINATING MATERIALS IN ORDER THAT THE PRODUCT MANUFACTURED CAN OBTAIN ORIGINATING STATUS
(Note: Current rules appear in column 3 in [Bold])
HS HEADING NO
DESCRIPTIONOF PRODUCTS
WORKING OR PROCESSING CARRIED OUT ON NON-ORIGINATING MATERIALS THAT CONFERS ORIGINATING STATUS
(1)
(2)
(3)
ex Chapter 09
ex 0910
Coffee, tea, maté and spices; except for:
Curry and mixtures of spices
Manufacture in which the weight of the materials used does not exceed 65% [40%] of the weight of the product
Manufacture from materials of any heading [and cloves used must be wholly produced]
Chapter 15
Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
Manufacture in which all the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of the product.
[Wholly produced requirement for some inputs of headings 1501, 1502, 1506, 1516 and 1517]
Chapter 20
Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
Manufacture in which all the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of the product
[Manufacture in which all the materials of chapters 7 and 8 used must be wholly produced]
Chapter 21
Miscellaneous edible preparations
Manufacture in which the value of the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost of the product or manufacture in which all the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of the product
[Manufacture in which the value of the materials used does not exceed 60% of the ex-works price of the product]
Chapter 22
Beverages, spirits and vinegar
Manufacture in which all the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of the product [and all the grapes or any material derived from grapes used must be wholly produced]
3901 to 3914
3915
3916 to 3926
Plastics in primary forms
Waste, parings and scrap, of plastics
Semi-manufactures and articles of plastics
[Manufacture in which:
all the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of the product; and all the materials of heading No. 3915 used must be wholly producedManufacture in which all the materials used must be wholly produced
Manufacture in which:
all the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of the product; or the value of the materials of Chapter 39 used does (must) not exceed 55% of the ex-works price (65% of the ex-works cost) of the product; and all the materials of heading No. 3915 used must be wholly produced]ex Chapter 44
4403
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal except for:
Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [40% of the ex-works price] of the product
[Manufacture in which all the materials of heading No. 4403 used must be wholly produced]
Chapter 84
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product
[45% ex-works price for headings 8415, 8418, 8419, 8421, 8433, 8450, 8451, and 8481]
Chapter 85
8544
Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles, except for:
Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product
To be further reviewed [… and the copper (metallic conductors) used must be wholly produced]
[45% ex-works price for heading 8516; 55% ex-works price for headings 8501, 8503, 8504; 8509, 8512, 8517, 8532, 8535, 8536, 8537, 8538; description of manufacturing process for heading 8528]
Chapter 87
Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof; except for:
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product
[Various percentage non-originating material limitations and specific assembly conditions on light and heavy vehicles of headings 8701, 8702, 8703, 8704, 8706 and 8707; 50% ex-works price for headings 8708, 8716.20, 8716.31; 40% ex-works price for heading 8716]
ex Chapter 90
Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
Manufacture in which the value of the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product
[55% ex-works price for headings 9001.10, 9018.31, 9018.32 and 9032.10]
ex Chapter 94
9402
9403.10
9403.20
Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings; except for:
Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture (for example, operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with mechanical fittings, dentists’ chairs); barbers’ chairs and similar chairs, having rotating as well as both reclining and elevating movements; parts of the foregoing articles
Metal furniture of a kind used in offices
Other metal furniture
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [40% of the ex-works price] of the product
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [price] of the product
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [price] of the product
Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [price] of the product
