Determination of Country of Origin for the Purpose of Marking Goods (CUSMA Countries) Regulations (SOR/94-23)

4 (1) The country of origin of goods is the country in which

• (a) the goods are wholly obtained or produced;

• (b) the goods are produced exclusively from domestic materials;

• (c) each of the foreign materials incorporated into the goods undergoes an applicable change in tariff classification and satisfies any other applicable requirements of these Regulations; or

• (d) a good is considered to originate under a Chapter Note set out in Schedule III.

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a), goods are wholly obtained or produced in a country if the goods are

• (a) mineral goods extracted in that country;

• (b) vegetables or other goods harvested in that country;

• (c) live animals born and raised in that country;

• (d) goods obtained from hunting, trapping or fishing in that country;

• (e) fish, shellfish or other marine life taken from the sea by vessels registered or recorded with that country and flying its flag;

• (f) goods produced on board factory ships from goods referred to in paragraph (e), where the factory ship is registered or recorded with that country and is flying its flag;

• (g) goods taken by that country or by a person of that country, from or beneath the seabed outside territorial waters, where that country has the right to exploit that seabed;

• (h) goods taken from outer space, where the goods are obtained by that country or by a person of that country;

• (i) waste and scrap derived from

  • (i) production in that country, or

  • (ii) used goods collected in that country, where those used goods are fit only for the recovery of raw materials; or

• (j) goods produced in that country exclusively from goods referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (i), or from derivatives of such goods, at any stage of production.