Rules of origin therefore say a great deal about ultimate objectives. In the U.S., the TPP has been promoted as being open to all countries in the Asia–Pacific Economic Community willing to meet ...

If an origin rule requires at least 55% of the input materials (in value terms) to be "originating", this normally means "originating in one of the FTA partners".

Rules of origin are the detailed content requirements that determine whether goods are produced “locally” in order to benefit from preferential tariff rates.

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Rules of origin make sure that a company in the UK can't buy cheap products from a country with poor labour standards, change the labels on them and then sell them into the EU tariff-free.