EU GSP rules of origin
The EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences, with GSP+ and Everything but Arms (EU GSP) is a one-way preference scheme. The European Union gives lower duty to goods from its beneficiary countries that meet the scheme's rules of origin.
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 44
The rule your product has to meet, looked up by its tariff code.
Article 45
How value is measured for the agreement's value tests.
Article 37
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 48 · called tolerance in the agreement
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 53
Simple work like repacking or labelling doesn't count, even if the code changes.
Article 47 · 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 50
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 49
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 51
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 52 · called neutral elements in the agreement
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 58
Parts you make yourself, and that qualify, count as originating.
Article 45
Cumulation with Norway, Switzerland and Türkiye
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 54
Materials from other countries in the same regional group count as your own.
Article 55
Cumulation between Groups I and III
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 55
Materials from countries outside the agreement can count, where it allows.
Article 56
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 49
For textiles the allowance is worked out by weight.
Annex 22-03
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 42
The document you need to claim the lower rate.
UCC Implementing Act, Article 92
Beneficiary countries.
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- India
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia