UK–SACUM EPA rules of origin
The UK–SACUM Economic Partnership Agreement (UK–SACUM EPA) is a trade agreement between the United Kingdom, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa.
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 7
The rule your product has to meet, looked up by its tariff code.
Article 8
Allowances and limits
What helps a product qualify, and what doesn't count.
Materials from the other party count as your own.
Article 3
Materials from other countries that share the same rules count as your own.
Article 4
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 4A
Cumulation of MFN duty-free inputs
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 5
Cumulation of preferential duty-free inputs
Materials from partner countries count as if they were your own.
Article 6
Work done in the other party counts too, not just its materials.
Article 4
A small share of materials can miss the rule and the product still qualifies.
Article 8 · called general tolerance in the agreement
For textiles the allowance is worked out by weight.
Annex I
Simple work like repacking or labelling doesn't count, even if the code changes.
Article 9
How products sold together as a set qualify.
Article 12
Accessories, spare parts and tools
Spare parts and tools shipped with the product are treated as part of it.
Article 11
The packaging it's sold in goes with the product.
Article 10
Boxes and containers used only for shipping are ignored.
Article 10
Fuel, tools and other things used up in production are ignored.
Article 13 · called neutral elements in the agreement
Identical materials from different sources can be tracked by inventory method.
Article 16 · called accounting segregation in the agreement
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 19
Where the work has to happen, and how much can happen elsewhere.
Article 14