What does wholly obtained mean?
A product is wholly obtained when nothing in it came from outside the trade area. Think apples grown in Chile or copper mined in Peru. These goods qualify straight away, with no product-specific rule to check.
What's on the list
Each agreement has its own list. It usually covers crops grown there, animals born and raised there, minerals taken from the ground there and fish caught by the country's own boats. Scrap from production there counts too, and so do goods made only from things on the list.
Made entirely from originating materials
Most manufactured products have some imported material in them, so they won't be wholly obtained. Most agreements also accept a product made entirely from originating materials, even if those materials were made from imported inputs further back. And wholly obtained inputs still help, because they count as originating when you check the product's own rule.
Where you'll find it. The article it's in, agreement by agreement.
- USMCAWholly obtained goods, Article 4.3
- CAFTA-DRWholly obtained goods, Article 4.22
- CPTPPWholly obtained goods, Article 3.3
- RCEPWholly obtained goods, Article 3.3
- ATIGAWholly obtained goods, Article 27
- ACFTAWholly obtained goods, Article 3
- PEM ConventionWholly obtained goods, Article 3
- CETAWholly obtained goods, Article 4
- EU–Japan EPAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.3
- EU–Korea FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 4
- EU–Mercosur iTAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.4
- EU–SADC EPAWholly obtained goods, Article 7
- EU–UK TCAWholly obtained goods, Article 41
- EU–Vietnam FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 4
- UK–Canada TCAWholly obtained goods, Article 4
- UK–Japan CEPAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.3
- UK–SACUM EPAWholly obtained goods, Article 7
- UK–Vietnam FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 4
- US–Australia FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 5.18
- KORUSWholly obtained goods, Article 6.22
- US–Singapore FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.19
- Canada–Colombia FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 318
- Canada–Indonesia CEPAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.3
- Canada–Korea FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.2
- Canada–Ukraine FTAWholly obtained goods, Article 3.4
- EU GSPWholly obtained goods, Article 44
- UK DCTSWholly obtained goods, Regulation 7
- Canada GPTWholly obtained goods, Section 2