Common use of Packaging Materials and Containers for Retail Sale Clause in Contracts

Packaging Materials and Containers for Retail Sale. Packaging materials and containers in which goods are packaged for retail sale, if classified with the goods, shall be disregarded in determining whether all the non-originating materials used in the production of those goods have undergone the applicable change in tariff classification set out in Annex II. However, if the goods are subject to a regional value content requirement the value of the packaging used for retail sale will be counted as originating or non- originating, as the case may be, in calculating the regional value content of the goods.

Packaging Materials and Containers for Retail Sale. Packaging materials and containers in which goods are packaged for retail sale, if classified with the goods, shall be disregarded in determining whether all the non-originating materials used in the production of those goods have undergone the applicable change in tariff classification set out in Annex II. 4B. However, if the goods are subject to a regional value content requirement requirement, the value of the packaging used for retail sale will be counted as originating or non- non-originating, as the case may be, in calculating the regional value content of the goods.