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ORGANIZATIONG/RO/W/67/Rev.1
26 September 2001
(01-4595)
Committee on Rules of Origin
ENDORSEMENT OF PROPOSALS ON HARMONIZED RULES OF ORIGIN
Revision
The following proposals on harmonized rules of origin are forwarded for endorsement to the
formal meeting of the Committee on Rules of Origin scheduled for 8 October 2001.  Consensus on the
basis of ad referendum, was reached on these proposals at the informal meetings in March and May2001.
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- Chapters 1-24 – Issue No. 9
1: to endorse Option A2 (the primary rule of split heading
ex03.01(b) should read "the country of origin of the goods of this split heading shall be thecountry in which they have been captured; or if farmed, the country in which the fish has been
raised from egg or fry (including fingerling)").
- Chapters 25-27 – Issue No. 7
2:  to endorse the following Chap ter Note: the country of origin
of goods of headings 27.07 and 27.10 through 27.13 that have been obtained as a result of achemical reaction as defined in Note 1 of this chapter or as a result of a physical separation
process listed below shall be the country where the reaction or process occurred:
(a) atmospheric or vacuum distillation;
(b) extraction by means of selective solvents.
- Chapters 41-43 – Issue No. 5
3:  to endorse Option A (each primary rule of split headings
ex41.04(b), ex41.05(b), ex41.06(b) and ex41.07(b) should read "CTHS").
- Chapters 44-49 – Issue No. 64:  to endorse the following primary rules;  "CTH, except by
mere assembly of wood already cut to size of heading 44.09" for heading 4414.;" CTH,
except by mere assembly of board already cut to size of heading 44.07 and 44.08" for heading44.15".
- Chapters 44-49 – Issue No. 8
5:  to endorse Option B (each primary rule of headings 47.01,
47.02, 47.03, 47.04, 47.05 and 47.06 should read "CTH").
- Chapters 50-63 – Issue No. 16:  to endorse the following pr imary rules: "CTHS" for split
headings ex50.03(a), ex53.01(b), ex53.02(b), ex53.03(b), ex53.04(b), ex53.05(b), ex55.05(a);
"CTSH" for subheading 5202.91 and "CTH" for heading 51.04.
                                                     
1 Consensus on this issue is subject to Singapore.
2 Consensus on this issue is subject to Singapore.
3 Consensus on this issue is subject to Argentina.
4 Consensus on this issue is subject to Thailand.
5 Consensus on this issue is subject to Thailand.
6 Consensus on this issue is subject to Costa Rica.G/RO/W/67/Rev.1
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- Chapters 50-63 – Issue No. 77:  to endorse Option B (each proposed rule "change by folding
or cabling" for headings 50.04-50.06, 51.06-51.10, 52.04-52.07, 53.06-53.08, 54.01-54.06,
55.08-55-11 should be deleted).
- Chapters 50-63 – Issue No. 178:  to endorse Option B (each primary rule of split heading
ex54.04(a)(2) and ex54.05(a)(2) should read "CTH, except from headings 39.20 or 39.21").
- Chapters 93-97 – Issue No. 59:  to endorse Option B (the primary rule of heading 9307 should
read "CTH").
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7 Consensus on this issue is subject to the Dominican Republic, Pakistan and Singapore.
8 Consensus on this issue is subject to Pakistan.
9 Consensus on this issue is subject to Thailand.