Unresolved Issues for Decision by the Committee on Rules of Origin - Overall Architecture of the Harmonized Rules of Origin

World Trade Organization G/RO/30 22 January 1999 (99-0229) Committee on Rules of Origin UNRESOLVED ISSUES FOR DECISION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES OF ORIGIN Overall Architecture of the Harmonized Rules of Origin The Technical Committee on Rules of Origin has submitted to the Committee on Rules of Origin (CRO) unresolved issues for decision by the CRO concerning the overall architecture of the harmonized rules of origin. The unresolved issues are herewith circulated to Members. _______________ The CRO is invited to decide which approach is most appropriate for the articulation of the harmonized rules of origin. ISSUE: When are the residual rules to be applied: when the primary rules applicable to the good have not been satisfied in any country involved in the production of the good, or, when the primary rules applicable to the good have not been satisfied only in the country where the last production process has taken place? This referral