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Annex
1: Recommended Changes to List Rules

LIST OF CONDITIONS REGARDING WORKING OR PROCESSING REQUIRED TO BE
CARRIED OUT ON NON-ORIGINATING MATERIALS IN ORDER THAT THE PRODUCT MANUFACTURED
CAN OBTAIN ORIGINATING STATUS

(Note: Current rules appear in column 3 in [Bold])

HS HEADING NO

DESCRIPTIONOF
PRODUCTS

WORKING
OR PROCESSING CARRIED OUT ON NON-ORIGINATING MATERIALS THAT CONFERS
ORIGINATING STATUS

(1)

(2)

(3)

ex Chapter 09

ex 0910

Coffee, tea, maté and spices; except for:

Curry and mixtures of spices

Manufacture in which the weight of the materials used does not exceed
65% [40%] of the weight of the product

Manufacture from materials of any heading [and cloves used must be wholly
produced]

Chapter 15

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared
edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Manufacture in which all
the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of
the product.

[Wholly produced requirement for some inputs of headings 1501, 1502,
1506, 1516 and 1517]

Chapter 20

Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants

Manufacture in which all
the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of
the product

[Manufacture in which all the materials of chapters 7 and 8 used must
be wholly produced]

Chapter 21

Miscellaneous edible preparations

Manufacture in which the
value of the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost
of the product or manufacture in which all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of the product

[Manufacture in which the value of the materials used does not exceed
60% of the ex-works price of the product]

Chapter 22

Beverages, spirits and vinegar

Manufacture in which all
the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of
the product [and all the grapes or any material derived from grapes used must
be wholly produced]

3901 to 3914

3915

3916 to 3926

Plastics in primary forms

Waste, parings and scrap, of plastics

Semi-manufactures and articles of plastics

[Manufacture in which:

all
the materials used are classified within a heading other than that of
the product; and
all
the materials of heading No. 3915 used must be wholly produced

Manufacture in which all the materials used must be wholly produced

Manufacture in which:

all the materials used are classified within a heading other than
that of the product; or
the value of the materials of Chapter 39 used does (must) not exceed 55% of the ex-works price (65% of the ex-works cost) of the product;
and
all
the materials of heading No. 3915 used must be wholly produced]

ex Chapter 44

4403

Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal except for:

Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or
roughly squared

Manufacture in which the
value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works
cost [40% of the ex-works price] of the product

[Manufacture in which all the materials of heading No. 4403 used must
be wholly produced]

Chapter 84

Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts
thereof

Manufacture in which the
value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works
cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product

[45% ex-works price for headings 8415, 8418, 8419, 8421, 8433, 8450,
8451, and 8481]

Chapter 85

8544

Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders
and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers,
and parts and accessories of such articles, except for:

Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including
co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors; optical fibre
cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled
with electric conductors or fitted with connectors

Manufacture in which the
value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works
cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product

To be further reviewed [ and the
copper (metallic conductors) used must be wholly produced]

[45% ex-works price for heading 8516; 55% ex-works price for headings
8501, 8503, 8504; 8509, 8512, 8517, 8532, 8535, 8536, 8537, 8538; description
of manufacturing process for heading 8528]

Chapter 87

Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and
accessories thereof; except for:

Manufacture in which the
value of all the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works
cost [60% of the ex-works price] of the product

[Various percentage non-originating material limitations and specific
assembly conditions on light and heavy vehicles of headings 8701, 8702,
8703, 8704, 8706 and 8707; 50% ex-works price for headings 8708, 8716.20,
8716.31; 40% ex-works price for heading 8716]

ex Chapter 90

Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision,
medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories
thereof

Manufacture in which the
value of the materials used does not exceed 65% of the ex-works cost [60% of
the ex-works price] of the product

[55% ex-works price for headings 9001.10, 9018.31, 9018.32 and 9032.10]

ex Chapter 94

9402

9403.10