EU–Japan EPA rules of origin
The EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EU–Japan EPA) is a trade agreement between the European Union and Japan.
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
Allowances and limits
What helps a product qualify, and what doesn't count.
Materials from the other party count as your own.
Article 3.5
Work done in the other party counts too, not just its materials.
Article 3.5
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 3.6 · called general tolerance in the agreement
For textiles the allowance is worked out by weight.
Annex 3A, Note 7
Simple work like repacking or labelling doesn't count, even if the code changes.
Article 3.4 · called insufficient working or processing in the agreement
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 3.9
Accessories, spare parts and tools
Spare parts and tools shipped with the product are treated as part of it.
Article 3.12
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 3.15
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 3.14
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 3.13 · called neutral elements in the agreement
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 3.8 · called accounting segregation in the agreement
Parts you make yourself, and that qualify, count as originating.
Article 3.2
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 3.16