ACFTA rules of origin
The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) is a trade agreement between China, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Inferred runs your bill of materials through these rules, input by input, and checks your suppliers' declarations against them. You approve every result.
The rules, one by one. Each with the article it comes from.
How a product originates
The ways it can qualify, and how value is measured.
Things grown, mined or caught in the area qualify with no further test.
Article 3
The rule your product has to meet, looked up by its tariff code.
Article 4
How value is measured for the agreement's value tests.
Article 5
Allowances and limits
What helps a product qualify, and what doesn't count.
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 9 · called tolerance in the agreement
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 9
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 6
Simple work like repacking or labelling doesn't count, even if the code changes.
Article 7 · called insufficient operations in the agreement
Accessories, spare parts and tools
Spare parts and tools shipped with the product are treated as part of it.
Article 11
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 10
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 12 · called neutral elements in the agreement
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 13
Parts you make yourself, and that qualify, count as originating.
Article 5
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 10
Shipping and claiming
Where the work happens, how the goods travel and how you claim.
Where the work has to happen, and how much can happen elsewhere.
Article 2
The document you need to claim the lower rate.
Article 14
Parties.
- China
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Other regional agreements. See them all on the globe.
- USMCAUnited States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (CUSMA, T-MEC)
- CAFTA-DRDominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement
- CPTPPComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
- RCEPRegional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- ATIGAASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
- PEM ConventionRegional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Preferential Rules of Origin