CPTPP rules of origin
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is a trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United Kingdom 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 3.3
The rule your product has to meet, looked up by its tariff code.
Article 3.2
How value is measured for the agreement's value tests.
Article 3.5
Allowances and limits
What helps a product qualify, and what doesn't count.
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 3.10 · called accumulation in the agreement
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 3.11
For textiles the allowance is worked out by weight.
Article 4.2
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 3.12
Accessories, spare parts and tools
Spare parts and tools shipped with the product are treated as part of it.
Article 3.13
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 3.14
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 3.15
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 3.16
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 3.17
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 4.2
Parts you make yourself, and that qualify, count as originating.
Article 3.6 · called materials used in production in the agreement
Parts recovered from used goods can count as originating in remanufactured goods.
Article 3.4
Shipping and claiming
Where the work happens, how the goods travel and how you claim.
The document you need to claim the lower rate.
Article 3.20
Parties.
- Australia
- Brunei
- Canada
- Chile
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Peru
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- 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
- RCEPRegional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- ATIGAASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
- ACFTAASEAN–China Free Trade Area
- PEM ConventionRegional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Preferential Rules of Origin