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• Note: Fruit, nut and vegetable preparations of Chapter 20 that have been prepared or preserved merely by freezing, by packing (including canning) in water, brine or natural juices, or by roasting, either dry or in oil (including processing incidental to freezing, packing, or roasting), shall be treated as an originating good only if the fresh good were wholly produced or obtained entirely in the territory of one or more of the NAFTA countries.

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• Note 2: For the purposes of heading 27.10, the following processes confer origin:

  • (a) Atmospheric distillation — A separation process in which petroleum oils are converted, in a distillation tower, into fractions according to boiling point and the vapor then condensed into different liquefied fractions. Liquefied petroleum gas, naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, diesel/heating oil, light gas oils and lubricating oil are produced from petroleum distillation;

  • (b) Vacuum distillation — Distillation at a pressure below atmospheric but not so low that it would be classed as molecular distillation. Vacuum distillation is useful for distilling high-boiling and heat-sensitive materials such as heavy distillates in petroleum oils to produce light to heavy vacuum gas oils and residuum. In some refineries gas oils may be further processed into lubricating oils;

  • (c) Catalytic hydroprocessing — The cracking and/or treating of petroleum oils with hydrogen at high temperature and under pressure, in the presence of special catalysts. Catalytic hydroprocessing includes hydrocracking and hydrotreating;

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  • (f) Cracking — A refining process involving decomposition and molecular recombination of organic compounds, especially hydrocarbons obtained by means of heat, to form molecules suitable for motor fuels, monomers, petrochemicals, etc.:

    • (i) Thermal cracking — Exposes the distillate to temperatures of approximately 540-650°C (1000-1200°F) for varying periods of time. Process produces modest yields of gasoline and higher yields of residual products for fuel oil blending,

    • (ii) Catalytic cracking — Hydrocarbon vapors are passed at approximately 400°C (750°F) over a metallic catalyst (e.g., silica-alumina or platinum); the complex recombinations (alkylation, polymerization, isomerization, etc.) occur within seconds to yield high-octane gasoline. Process yields less residual oils and light gases than thermal cracking;

  • (g) Coking — A thermal cracking process for the conversion of heavy low grade products, such as reduced crude, straight run pitch, cracked tars and shale oil into solid coke (carbon) and lower boiling hydrocarbon products which are suitable as feed for other refinery units for conversion into lighter products; and

• (1) A change to essential oils of bergamot of subheading 3301.19 from any other good of subheading 3301.19 or any other subheading;

• (2) A change to essential oils of lime of subheading 3301.19 from any other good of subheading 3301.19 or any other subheading;

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• (4) A change to any other good of subheading 3301.19 from essential oils of bergamot or of lime of subheading 3301.19 or any other subheading within Chapter 33, whether or not there is also a change from any other chapter, provided there is a regional value content of not less than:

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• (1) A change to essential oils of geranium, jasmine, lavender, lavandin or vetiver of subheading 3301.29 from any other good of subheading 3301.29 or any other subheading;

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• (3) A change to any other good of subheading 3301.29 from essential oils of geranium, jasmine, lavender, lavandin or vetiver of subheading 3301.29 or any other subheading within Chapter 33, whether or not there is also a change from any other chapter, provided there is a regional value content of not less than:

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• (1) A change to pine oil of subheading 3805.90 from any other good of subheading 3805.90 or any other subheading; or

• (2) A change to any other good of subheading 3805.90 from pine oil of subheading 3805.90 or any other subheading.

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• Note 3: The following are parts for the goods of subheading 8443.31 or 8443.32:

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  • (d) image fixing assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: fuser, pressure roller, heating element, release oil dispenser, cleaning unit, electrical control;

• Note 4: The following are parts for facsimile machines:

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  • (g) image fixing assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: fuser, pressure roller, heating element, release oil dispenser, cleaning unit, electrical control;

• Note 5: The following are parts for photocopying apparatus of subheadings 8443.32 and 8443.39 which refer to this Note:

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  • (d) image fixing assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: fuser, pressure roller, heating element, release oil dispenser, cleaning unit, electrical control;

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• (14) A change to blow moulding machines of subheading 8486.20 from any other good of subheading 8486.20 or any other subheading, except from base, bed, platen, clamp cylinder, ram or injection castings, weldments or fabrications of subheading 8477.90 or 8486.90 or more than one of the following:

  • — hydraulic assemblies incorporating more than one of the following: manifold, valves, pump, oil cooler of subheading 8477.90,