EU–UK TCA rules of origin
The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (EU–UK TCA) is a trade agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom.
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 41
The rule your product has to meet, looked up by its tariff code.
Article 39
Allowances and limits
What helps a product qualify, and what doesn't count.
Materials from the other party count as your own.
Article 40
Work done in the other party counts too, not just its materials.
Article 40
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 42 · called general tolerance in the agreement
For textiles the allowance is worked out by weight.
Annex 2, Note 7
Simple work like repacking or labelling doesn't count, even if the code changes.
Article 43
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 48
Accessories, spare parts and tools
Spare parts and tools shipped with the product are treated as part of it.
Article 47
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 46
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 45
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 49 · called neutral elements in the agreement
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 50
Parts you make yourself, and that qualify, count as originating.
Article 39
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 54