TITLE I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

ARTICLE 1
Definitions



For the purposes of this Protocol:

(a) 

"manufacture" means any kind of working or processing including assembly or specific operations;

(b)

"material" means any ingredient, raw material, component or part, etc., used in the manufacture of the product;

(c)

"product" means the product being manufactured, even if it is intended for later use in another manufacturing operation;

(d)

"goods" means both materials and products;

(e)

"customs value" means the value as determined in accordance with the 1994 Agreement on implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (WTO Agreement on customs valuation);

(f)

"exworks price" means the price paid for the product ex works to the manufacturer in the Community or Jordan in whose undertaking the last working or processing is carried out, provided the price includes the value of all the materials used, minus any internal taxes which are, or may be, repaid when the product obtained is exported;

(g)

"value of materials" means the customs value at the time of importation of the nonoriginating materials used, or, if this is not known and cannot be ascertained, the first ascertainable price paid for the materials in the Community or Jordan;


(h)

"value of originating materials" means the value of such materials as defined in subparagraph (g) applied mutatis mutandis;

(i)

"added value" shall be taken to be the exworks price minus the customs value of each of the products incorporated which did not originate in the country in which those products were obtained;

(j)

"chapters" and "headings" mean the chapters and the headings (fourdigit codes) used in the nomenclature which makes up the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, referred to in this Protocol as "the Harmonized System" or "HS";

(k)

"classified" refers to the classification of a product or material under a particular heading;

(l)

"consignment" means products which are either sent simultaneously from one exporter to one consignee or covered by a single transport document covering their shipment from the exporter to the consignee or, in the absence of such a document, by a single invoice;

(xiii)

"territories" includes territorial waters.