Статья 4.7. Недостаточная работа или обработка / Article 4.7. Insufficient Working or Processing

Article 4.7
Insufficient Working or Processing

1. The following operations undertaken exclusively by themselves or in combination with each other are considered to be insufficient to meet the requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c) of Article 4.3 (Origin Criteria):

(a) preserving operations to ensure that a product retains its condition during transportation and storage;

(b) freezing or thawing;

(c) packaging and re-packaging;

(d) washing, cleaning, removing dust, oxide, oil, paint or other coverings;

(e) ironing or pressing of textiles;

(f) colouring, polishing, varnishing, oiling;

(g) husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing and glazing of cereals and rice;

(h) operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps;

(i) peeling and removal of stones and shells from fruits, nuts and vegetables;

(j) sharpening, grinding;

(k) simple cutting;

(l) sifting, screening, sorting, classifying;

(m) placing in bottles, cans, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on surface and all other packaging operations;

(n) affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;

(o) mixing of goods of different origin provided that the characteristics of the resulting product are not essentially different from the characteristics of the goods which have been mixed;

(p) simple assembly of a product;

(q) disassembly of products into parts; and

(r) slaughter of animals.

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, "simple" describes activities which do not require special skills or machines, apparatus or equipment especially designed for carrying out such activities.