Canada–Colombia FTA rules of origin
The Canada–Colombia Free Trade Agreement (Canada–Colombia FTA) is a trade agreement between Canada and Colombia.
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 318
The rule your product has to meet, looked up by its tariff code.
Article 301
How value is measured for the agreement's value tests.
Article 304
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 307 · called tolerance in the agreement
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 307
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 306
Simple work like repacking or labelling doesn't count, even if the code changes.
Article 302 · 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 311
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 312
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 310
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 309 · called neutral elements in the agreement
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 308
Parts you make yourself, and that qualify, count as originating.
Article 305
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 313
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 301
The document you need to claim the lower rate.
Article 401