The WTO uses the term Regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a generic name for all reciprocal agreements such as customs unions, FTAs, and partial scope agreements. This can be explained by the fact that, initially, such treaties were within the jurisdiction of…
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The criteria applied by an importing country to determine the origin of a good. The question of origin is very complex because many goods contain materials of mixed origin and many preferential trade agreements employ different origin criteria Importers should…
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Origin can be understood as the economic nationality of the good. All internationally traded goods are required to have an origin when they are declared to customs at the point of import . Rules of origin enable to establish the…
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