Editorial Note on Part 10
Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to part 10 appear by CBP Dec. 16-26, 81 FR 93010, Dec. 20, 2016.

§ 10.2013 Definitions. For purposes of §§ 10.2013 through 10.2025: ( a ) *Adjusted value.* “Adjusted value” means the value determined in accordance with Articles 1 through 8, Article 15, and the corresponding interpretative notes of the Customs Valuation Agreement, adjusted, if necessary, to exclude: ( 1 ) Any costs, charges, or expenses incurred for transportation, insurance and related services incident to the international shipment of the good from the country of exportation to the place of importation; and
( 2 ) The value of packing materials and containers for shipment as defined in paragraph (o) of this section;
( b ) *Class of motor vehicles.* “Class of motor vehicles” means any one of the following categories of motor vehicles: ( 1 ) Motor vehicles classified under subheading 8701.20, motor vehicles for the transport of 16 or more persons classified under subheading 8702.10 or 8702.90, and motor vehicles classified under subheading 8704.10, 8704.22, 8704.23, 8704.32, or 8704.90, or heading 8705 or 8706, HTSUS;
( 2 ) Motor vehicles classified under subheading 8701.10 or any of subheadings 8701.30 through 8701.90, HTSUS;
( 3 ) Motor vehicles for the transport of 15 or fewer persons classified under subheading 8702.10 or 8702.90, HTSUS, or motor vehicles classified under subheading 8704.21 or 8704.31, HTSUS; or
( 4 ) Motor vehicles classified under subheadings 8703.21 through 8703.90, HTSUS;
( c ) *Enterprise.* “Enterprise” means an enterprise as defined in § 10.2002(g), and includes an enterprise involved in: ( 1 ) Production, processing, or manipulation of textile or apparel goods in the territory of Panama, including in any free trade zone, foreign trade zone, or export processing zone;
( 2 ) Importation of textile or apparel goods into the territory of Panama, including into any free trade zone, foreign trade zone, or export processing zone; or
( 3 ) Exportation of textile or apparel goods from the territory of Panama, including from any free trade zone, foreign trade zone, or export processing zone;
( d ) *Exporter.* “Exporter” means a person who exports goods from the territory of a Party;
( e ) *Fungible good or material.* “Fungible good or material” means a good or material, as the case may be, that is interchangeable with another good or material for commercial purposes and the properties of which are essentially identical to such other good or material;
( f ) *Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.* “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” means the recognized consensus or substantial authoritative support in the territory of a Party, with respect to the recording of revenues, expenses, costs, assets, and liabilities, the disclosure of information, and the preparation of financial statements. These principles may encompass broad guidelines of general application, as well as detailed standards, practices, and procedures;
( g ) *Good.* “Good” means any merchandise, product, article, or material;
( h ) *Goods wholly obtained or produced entirely in the territory of one or both of the Parties.* “Goods wholly obtained or produced entirely in the territory of one or both of the Parties” means: ( 1 ) Plants and plant products harvested or gathered in the territory of one or both of the Parties;
( 2 ) Live animals born and raised in the territory of one or both of the Parties;
( 3 ) Goods obtained in the territory of one or both of the Parties from live animals;
( 4 ) Goods obtained from hunting, trapping, fishing, or aquaculture conducted in the territory of one or both of the Parties;
( 5 ) Minerals and other natural resources not included in paragraphs (h)(1) through (h)(4) of this section that are extracted or taken in the territory of one or both of the Parties;
( 6 ) Fish, shellfish, and other marine life taken from the sea, seabed, or subsoil outside the territory of the Parties by: ( i ) Vessels registered or recorded with Panama and flying its flag; or
( ii ) Vessels documented under the laws of the United States;
( 7 ) Goods produced on board factory ships from the goods referred to in paragraph (h)(6) of this section, if such factory ships are: ( i ) Registered or recorded with Panama and flying its flag; or
( ii ) Documented under the laws of the United States;
( 8 ) Goods taken by a Party or a person of a Party from the seabed or subsoil outside territorial waters, if a Party has rights to exploit such seabed or subsoil;
( 9 ) Goods taken from outer space, provided they are obtained by a Party or a person of a Party and not processed in the territory of a non-Party;
( 10 ) Waste and scrap derived from: ( i ) Manufacturing or processing operations in the territory of one or both of the Parties; or
( ii ) Used goods collected in the territory of one or both of the Parties, if such goods are fit only for the recovery of raw materials;
( 11 ) Recovered goods derived in the territory of one or both of the Parties from used goods, and used in the territory of one or both of the Parties in the production of remanufactured goods; and
( 12 ) Goods produced in the territory of one or both of the Parties exclusively from goods referred to in any of paragraphs (h)(1) through (h)(10) of this section, or from the derivatives of such goods, at any stage of production;
( i ) *Indirect material.* “Indirect material” means a good used in the production, testing, or inspection of another good in the territory of one or both of the Parties but not physically incorporated into that other good, or a good used in the maintenance of buildings or the operation of equipment associated with the production of another good, including: ( 1 ) Fuel and energy;
( 2 ) Tools, dies, and molds;
( 3 ) Spare parts and materials used in the maintenance of equipment or buildings;
( 4 ) Lubricants, greases, compounding materials, and other materials used in production or used to operate equipment or buildings;
( 5 ) Gloves, glasses, footwear, clothing, safety equipment, and supplies;
( 6 ) Equipment, devices, and supplies used for testing or inspecting the good;
( 7 ) Catalysts and solvents; and
( 8 ) Any other good that is not incorporated into the other good but the use of which in the production of the other good can reasonably be demonstrated to be a part of that production;
( j ) *Material.* “Material” means a good that is used in the production of another good, including a part or an ingredient;
( k ) *Model line.* “Model line” means a group of motor vehicles having the same platform or model name;
( l ) *Net cost.* “Net cost” means total cost minus sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service costs, royalties, shipping and packing costs, and non-allowable interest costs that are included in the total cost;
( m ) *Non-allowable interest costs.* “Non-allowable interest costs” means interest costs incurred by a producer that exceed 700 basis points above the applicable official interest rate for comparable maturities of the Party in which the producer is located;
( n ) *Non-originating good or non-originating material.* “Non-originating good” or “non-originating material” means a good or material, as the case may be, that does not qualify as originating under General Note 35, HTSUS, or this subpart;
( o ) *Packing materials and containers for shipment.* “Packing materials and containers for shipment” means the goods used to protect a good during its transportation to the United States, and does not include the packaging materials and containers in which a good is packaged for retail sale;
( p ) *Producer.* “Producer” means a person who engages in the production of a good in the territory of a Party;
( q ) *Production.* “Production” means growing, mining, harvesting, fishing, raising, trapping, hunting, manufacturing, processing, assembling, or disassembling a good;
( r ) *Reasonably allocate.* “Reasonably allocate” means to apportion in a manner that would be appropriate under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles;
( s ) *Recovered goods.* “Recovered goods” means materials in the form of individual parts that are the result of: ( 1 ) The disassembly of used goods into individual parts; and
( 2 ) The cleaning, inspecting, testing, or other processing that is necessary to improve such individual parts to sound working condition;
( t ) *Remanufactured good.* “Remanufactured good” means a good classified in Chapter 84, 85, 87, or 90 or heading 9402, HTSUS, other than a good classified in heading 8418 or 8516, HTSUS, and that: ( 1 ) Is entirely or partially comprised of recovered goods as defined in paragraph (s) of this section; and
( 2 ) Has a similar life expectancy and enjoys a factory warranty similar to such a good that is new;
( u ) *Royalties.* “Royalties” means payments of any kind, including payments under technical assistance agreements or similar agreements, made as consideration for the use of, or right to use, any copyright, literary, artistic, or scientific work, patent, trademark, design, model, plan, secret formula or process, excluding those payments under technical assistance agreements or similar agreements that can be related to specific services such as: ( 1 ) Personnel training, without regard to where performed; and
( 2 ) If performed in the territory of one or both of the Parties, engineering, tooling, die-setting, software design and similar computer services;
( v ) *Sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service costs.* “Sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service costs” means the following costs related to sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service: ( 1 ) Sales and marketing promotion; media advertising; advertising and market research; promotional and demonstration materials; exhibits; sales conferences, trade shows and conventions; banners; marketing displays; free samples; sales, marketing, and after-sales service literature (product brochures, catalogs, technical literature, price lists, service manuals, sales aid information); establishment and protection of logos and trademarks; sponsorships; wholesale and retail restocking charges; entertainment;
( 2 ) Sales and marketing incentives; consumer, retailer or wholesaler rebates; merchandise incentives;
( 3 ) Salaries and wages, sales commissions, bonuses, benefits (for example, medical, insurance, pension), traveling and living expenses, membership and professional fees, for sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service personnel;
( 4 ) Recruiting and training of sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service personnel, and after-sales training of customers' employees, where such costs are identified separately for sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service of goods on the financial statements or cost accounts of the producer;
( 5 ) Product liability insurance;
( 6 ) Office supplies for sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service of goods, where such costs are identified separately for sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service of goods on the financial statements or cost accounts of the producer;
( 7 ) Telephone, mail and other communications, where such costs are identified separately for sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service of goods on the financial statements or cost accounts of the producer;
( 8 ) Rent and depreciation of sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service offices and distribution centers;
( 9 ) Property insurance premiums, taxes, cost of utilities, and repair and maintenance of sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service offices and distribution centers, where such costs are identified separately for sales promotion, marketing, and after-sales service of goods on the financial statements or cost accounts of the producer; and
( 10 ) Payments by the producer to other persons for warranty repairs;
( w ) *Self-produced material.* “Self-produced material” means an originating material that is produced by a producer of a good and used in the production of that good;
( x ) *Shipping and packing costs.* “Shipping and packing costs” means the costs incurred in packing a good for shipment and shipping the good from the point of direct shipment to the buyer, excluding the costs of preparing and packaging the good for retail sale;
( y ) *Total cost.* “Total cost” means all product costs, period costs, and other costs for a good incurred in the territory of one or both of the Parties. Product costs are costs that are associated with the production of a good and include the value of materials, direct labor costs, and direct overhead. Period costs are costs, other than product costs, that are expensed in the period in which they are incurred, such as selling expenses and general and administrative expenses. Other costs are all costs recorded on the books of the producer that are not product costs or period costs, such as interest. Total cost does not include profits that are earned by the producer, regardless of whether they are retained by the producer or paid out to other persons as dividends, or taxes paid on those profits, including capital gains taxes;
( z ) *Used.* “Used” means utilized or consumed in the production of goods; and
( aa ) *Value.* “Value” means the value of a good or material for purposes of calculating customs duties or for purposes of applying this subpart.