Minimal Processes or Operations. The minimal processes or operations that by themselves or in combination do not confer origin to a good are as follows:
a) the necessary operations for the preservation of a good during transportation or storage, including airing, ventilation, drying, refrigeration, freezing, elimination of damaged parts, application of oil, antirust painting or protective coatings, or the placing in salt, sulfur dioxide or some other aqueous solution;
b) simple operations consisting of cleaning, washing, sifting or straining, or shaking, selection, classification or grading, culling, peeling, shelling or striping, grain removal, pitting, pressing or crushing, soaking, elimination of dust or of spoiled or damaged parts, sorting, division of consignments in bulk, grouping in packages, placing of marks, labels or distinctive signs on products and their packages, packing, unpacking or repackaging;
c) combination or mixing operations of goods that have not result in any important difference in the characteristics of the goods before and after the combination or mixing;
d) simple jointing or assembling of parts to make a complete good, or to form sets or assortments of goods;
e) simple water dilution operations or ionization and salting, which have not changed the nature of the good; and
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Minimal Processes or Operations. Minimal processes or operations which alone or in combination thereof, do not confer origin to goods, when used for: To ensure the proper conservation status of the goods during transportation or storage; Facilitating shipment or transportation; Packaging or presenting goods for sale. Those minimal operations or processes are the following: Aeration, ventilation, drying, chilling, freezing; Cleaning, washing, sifting or sifting screening sorting, grading or;; Peeling husking or desconchado boning estrujado, or who; Removal of dust or damaged parts or damaged, implementation of oil or protective coatings, paint oxide; Testing or division; calibration of bulk shipments; grouping in packages; accession of marks or labels, products or distinguishing signs on their packaging; Packaging, repackaging or unpacking; Dilution with water or in any other aqueous solution; ionization and salting; Armed or simple assembly of parts of products to constitute a complete product; and The xxxxxxxxx of animals. Minimal operations or processes referred to above shall not be taken into account when determining whether a product has been obtained entirely in one or more of the Parties. A minimum process or a combination of them shall not preclude to confer originto any goods if there is a sufficient transformation as a result of other operations or processes.
