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MINIMAL PROCESSES WHICH ARE NOT ACCEPTED AS OBTAINING ORIGINAL STATUS

<MINIMAL PROCESSES WHICH ARE NOT ACCEPTED AS OBTAINING ORIGINAL STATUS>

The following minimal processes are not accepted as obtaining origin status;

  1. Operations to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (drying, freezing, placing in salt water and other similar operations);
  2. Simple cutting or screening;
  3. Simple placing in bottles, boxes and other similar packing cases;
  4. Repacking, sorting or classifying;
  5. Marking or affixing of marks, labels or other distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;
  6. Simple mixing of non-originating products;
  7. Simple assembly of parts of non-originating products;
  8. Simple making-up of sets of articles of non-originating products;
  9. A combination of two or more operations specified in 1-8
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