Common use of Insufficient Working or Processing Operations Clause in Contracts

Insufficient Working or Processing Operations. The following operations shall be considered as insufficient working or processing to confer the status of originating products, whether or not the requirements of Articles 5(1)(a) and 5(1)(b) of this Chapter are satisfied: preserving operations to ensure that the products remain in good condition during transport and storage; simple changing of packaging and breaking-up and assembly of packages; washing, cleaning; removal of dust, oxide, oil, paint or other coverings; simple painting and polishing operations, including applying oil; husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing, and glazing of cereals and rice; ironing or pressing of textiles; operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps; peeling, stoning and shelling, of fruits, nuts and vegetables; sharpening, simple grinding or simple cutting; sifting, screening, sorting, classifying, grading, matching; (including the making-up of sets of articles); affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging; dilution in water or other substances, providing that the characteristics of the products remain unchanged; simple placing in bottles, cans, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards and all other simple packaging operations; simple assembly of parts of articles to constitute a complete article or disassembly of products into parts in which the non originating materials comprise more than 60 % of the ex-works price of the product; simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds; xxxxxxxxx of animals; a combination of two or more of the above operations.

Insufficient Working or Processing Operations. The following operations shall be considered as insufficient working or processing to confer the status of originating productsto a good, whether or not the requirements of Articles 5(1)(a) and 5(1)(b) Article 5 of this Chapter are satisfied: preserving operations to ensure that the products goods remain in good condition during transport and storagestorage such as aeration, drying, refrigeration, immersion in salty or sulphured water or in water added with other substances, extraction of damaged parts and similar operations; dilution in water or in any other substance which does not substantially alter the good’s characteristics; simple changing of packaging and breaking-up and assembly of packages; washing, cleaning; operations such as removal of dust, oxide, oil, paint or other coverings; simple painting and polishing operations, including applying oil; husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing, and glazing of cereals and rice; ironing or pressing of textiles; operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps; peeling, stoning and shelling, of fruits, nuts and vegetables; sharpening, simple grinding or simple cutting; sifting, screening, sorting, classifying, grading, matching, washing, painting, husking, stoning of seeds, slicing and cutting; (including the makingsimple change of package and breaking-up and assembly of sets of articles); affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging; dilution in water or other substances, providing that the characteristics of the products remain unchangedpackages; simple placing packing in bottles, cans, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards and all other simple packaging operations; affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on goods or their packaging; simple cleaning, including removal of oxide, oil, paint or other coverings; simple assembly of parts of articles to constitute a complete article or disassembly of products goods into parts parts, in which the non originating materials comprise more than 60 % accordance with General Rule 2a of the ex-works price Harmonized System; xxxxxxxxx of the productanimals; simple mixing of productsgoods, whether provided that the characteristics of the obtained good are not essentially different from those of the mixed goods; oil application; ironing or not pressing of different kindstextiles; xxxxxxxxx simple polishing operations; partial or total bleaching, polishing, and glazing of animalscereals and rice; operations to color sugar or to form sugar lumps; a combination of two or more of the above operations.