HOW TO DETERMINE
HOW TO DETERMINE
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
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Why Is Country of Origin Important?
How to Determine Country of Origin?
What Are The Rules of Origin?
What Is The Proof of Origin?
What Are The Marking Requirements?

Why Is Country
of Origin
Important?
Country of origin is the place
where a good or item was made,
produced, or grown.
Duty rates, preferential trade
agreements, trade sanctions, and
import quotas, are regulated
based on the country of origin of
imported goods.

WHOLLY OBTAINED
OR WHOLLY
PRODUCED
If a product is wholly
obtained in a country,
it's considered to have
originated from that
country
Why Is Country of Origin Important?
DE MINIMIS RULE
It applies when the
percentage of non-
originating materials in
the product is below
7% of the transaction's
worth
SUBSTANTIAL
TRANSFORMATION
RULE
A product is said to
originate from the last
nation from which it
arose after a specific
procedure with a new
name, character &
application

What Are The Rules of Origin?

Apply to all
Used to identify the country of
origin of a product
A thing that was entirely obtained
and produced in one nation is a
product of that nation
NON-PREFERENTIAL
Apply to particular trade
agreements negotiated between
members of a free trade area
All the products that qualify for
tariff discounts are determined by
these regulations
PREFERENTIAL

An origin certificate in
the required format
What Is The Proof of Origin?
A statement of origin
from the exporter
An origin declaration A certificate of origin with
necessary data elements
but no set format

What Are The Marking
Requirements?

Full name in English
Abbreviations
Adjectival Form

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