Committee on Rules of Origin - Integrated Negotiating Text for the Harmonization Work Programme - Note by the Secretariat

ISSUES FOR DECISION: CHAPTERS 28 THROUGH 40 This document combines all issues referred by the TCRO to the CRO. The annexed tables set out all proposed rules for these issues as well as all Basket 1 decisions. It is to be noted that Issue n° 4 refers also to Chapter 39; Issue n° 5 refers also to Chapters 39 and 40; and Issue n° 7 refers also to Chapter 39. The Committee on Rules of Origin is invited to decide whether the products resulting from processes described below have undergone their last substantial transformation. ISSUE No. 1: MIXING OF TWO OR MORE CONSTITUENTS TO PRODUCE A MEDICAMENT CLASSIFIED IN HEADING 30.03. OPTION A: Substantial transformation always takes place as a result of processes in which: (1) input materials from outside heading 30.03 become classifiable in the heading; or (2) input materials classified within heading 30.03 undergo mixing operations which satisfy the general mixtures rule of origin applicable to goods of the chemical se