WORLD TRADE G/RO/22
29January 1998
ORGANIZATION(98-0315)
Committee onRules ofOrigin
TENTH REPORT OFTHE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ONRULES OFORIGIN
TOTHE COMMITTEE ONRULES OFORIGIN
Note bytheSecretariat
1. Inconformity withparagraph 2(c)ofArticle 9oftheAgreement onRules ofOrigin, the
Technical Committee onRules ofOrigin hassubmitted totheCommittee onRules ofOrigin itsTenth
Report. TheReport covers theresults oftheTechnical Committee 'swork under theHarmonization
Work Programme atitsTenth Session heldinBrussels from 24November to5December 1997.
2. Theattached Report (WCO document 42.148) iscirculated toMembers, together withtheletter
oftransmission oftheChairman oftheTechnical Committee onRules ofOrigin.G/RO/22
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Brussels, 20January 1998.
Dear Ms.Berrig,
Ihavepleasure intransmitting theTenth Report oftheTechnical Committee onRules ofOrigin
totheCommittee onRules ofOrigin.
ThisReport issubmitted inaccordance withtheprovisions ofArticle 9.2(c) oftheAgreement
andcovers theresults oftheTechnical Committee ’swork under theharmonization work programme
through itsTenth Session heldinBrussels from24November to5December 1997. ThedraftReport
oftheTenth Session oftheTechnical Committee istobeapproved during theEleventh Session tobe
heldfrom 9to27February 1998.
AssetoutintheReport totheCommittee, theTechnical Committee undertook Basket 2
discussionsofChapters1to24and84oftheHarmonizedSystem.ConcerningtheseBasket2discussions
theTechnical Committee hascompleted itsconsideration and,except asnoted, issubmitting theresults
totheCommittee. Itissubmitting forendorsement bytheCommittee therules oforigin forthese
chapters uponwhich consensus hasbeenreached. These havebeendesignated asBasket 1decisions.
There werealsounresolved issues uponwhich theTechnical Committee wasunable toreach consensus
afterexhausting itsdiscussions. TheTechnical Committee ’sinterpretations andopinions concerning
theseunresolved issues, intheformofoptions anddiffering views, arebeing referred totheCommittee
fordecision. BoththeBasket 1decisions andunresolved issues aretobesubmitted shortly tothe
Committee inanadministrative document.1
Please accept, MsBerrig, theassurance ofmyhighest consideration.
Yours sincerely,
R.JANECZKO,
Chairman
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WCO doc.42.148
TENTH REPORT OFTHE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ONRULES OFORIGIN
TOTHE COMMITTEE ONRULES OFORIGIN
1. TheTechnical Committee onRules ofOrigin helditsTenth Session inBrussels fromMonday
24November toFriday 5December 1997.
Nature ofthework
2. Atthissession, theTechnical Committee devoted almost allitstime, withextraworking hours,
totheharmonization work onrules oforigin forparticular products orproduct sectors. Thework
involved:
(a) Asecond examination oftherulesoforigin forgoods classified inChapters 1through 24and
84oftheHarmonized System. Theresults ofthatwork aresetoutinAnnexes tothedraftReport
ontheTechnical Committee ’sTenth Session, Doc. 41.754 (tobeforwarded later) andrelatedly, in
Referral Documents 42.146 and42.1472;and
(b) ApprovaloftheReportoftheNinthSessionoftheTechnicalCommittee,Doc.41.950,including
theBasket 1product-specific rules agreed during theNinth Session; and
(c) Establishing theAgenda fortheEleventh Session, tobeheldfrom 9to27February, 1998
inBrussels. Inview oftheheavy agenda, thelength ofthesession hasbeenextended from twoto
three weeks.
Results ofthework
3. Theresults oftheTechnical Committee ’sconsideration oftheorigin criteria proposed forthe
goods ofChapters 1through 24and84aredesignated asfollows:
Basket 1:origin criteria (rules) agreed bytheTechnical Committee which arebeing transmitted
totheCommittee onRules orOrigin forendorsement;
Basket 2:origin criteria proposed forparticular goods, aswellasproposed Chapter Notes,
which raised technical aspects tobeconsidered further bytheTechnical Committee during
laterwork;
Unresolved issues submitted totheCROfordecision: origin criteria forcertain goods forwhich
thedifferingviewscouldnotberesolvedbytheTechnicalCommitteenotwithstandingexhaustive
technical examination. These issues arebeing submitted totheCommittee onRules ofOrigin
fordecision bymeans ofadministrative documents (Docs. 42.146 and42.147). These
documents identify theissues atstake andthediffering views presented during therelevant
Technical Committee discussions.
4. Itistobenoted thatwithrespect tocertain goods theTechnical Committee hasreferred
unresolved issues totheCommittee while retaining forfurther consideration issues affecting thesame
goods.
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A. Goods classified inBasket 1
5. Withregard totheChapters 1to24examined attheTenth Session, thelistofalltheheadings
classified inBasket 1isnowasfollows:
02.08, ex-02.10 (i),
ex-03.05 (d),ex-03.06 (c),ex-03.07 (c)
04.01, 04.05, 0406.10, 0406.20, 0406.40, 0406.90, 04.07, 04.09, 04.10
05.01, 05.02, 05.03, 05.04, 05.05, 05.06, 05.07, 05.08, 05.09, 05.10, 05.11
0601.10, 0602.10, 0602.20, 0602.30, 0602.40, 0602.90, ex-06.03 (c),ex-06.04 (b)
07.01, 07.02, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09, 07.11, 07.14
08.01, 08.02, 08.03, 08.04, 08.05, 08.06, 08.07, 08.08, 08.09, 08.10, 08.12, ex-08.14 (b)
0901.11,ex-0901.90(b),ex-09.02(d),09.03,0904.11,ex-0904.20(b),ex-09.05(b),09.06.10,ex-09.07
(b),ex-09.08 (b),ex-09.09 (b),ex-09.10 (d)
10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.05, 10.06, 10.07, 10.08
11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 11.05, 11.06, 11.07, 11.08, 11.09
12.01, 12.02, 12.03, 12.04, 12.05, 12.06, 12.07, 12.09, 12.10, ex-12.11 (a),12.12, 12.13, 12.14
17.04
18.01, 18.02
1901.90, 1902.11, 1902.19, 1902.30, 1902.40, 19.03, 19.04, 1905.10, 1905.20, 1905.30, 1905.40,
ex-1905.90 (b)
20.04, 20.05, 20.06, ex-2008.11 (d)
2101.30 (terminology tobedetermined), 2102.10, 2102.30, ex-2103.30 (a)(terminology tobe
determined), 21.05
22.01, 22.03, 22.05, 22.06
23.01, 23.02, 23.03, 23.04, 23.05, 23.06, ex-23.08 (b),2309.10, ex-2309.90 (b)
24.01.10, 24.01.20, 24.02, 24.03
B. Goods maintained inBasket 2
6. Thefollowing issues andheadings inChapters 1-24havebeenretained inBasket 2forfurther
examination bytheTechnical Committee:
Chapter Notes andDefinitions;G/RO/22
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13.02, 15.16, 15.17, 15.21, 15.22, 2009.90.
7. TheheadingsofChapter84areretainedalsoinBasket2forfurtherexaminationbytheTechnical
Committee. However, theTechnical Committee decided, afteranexhaustive discussion inwhich
consensus could notbereached, torefertotheCommittee fordecision theissue oftheassembly of
finished machines from parts.
Future work
8. TheEleventh Session oftheTechnical Committee willbeheldinBrussels from 9to
27February 1998, andwillconcentrate oncontinuing theexamination ofBasket 2goods.
Report ontheNinth Session
9. TheReport ontheNinth Session oftheTechnical Committee (Doc. 41.950) wasofficially
adopted attheTenth Session.
Provisional nature oftheReport ontheTenth Session
10. Inaccordance withtheprocedure introduced attheSixth Session, theTechnical Committee
spent thewhole ofitstimecontinuing itswork andwastherefore unable toadopt thesession Report
during thesession. TheReport istherefore provisional andwillbereplaced bythefinalReport.
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