RULES OF ORIGIN
July 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Trade Organisation's general council has been asked to approve a series of global trading regulations stating whether a textile manufacturing process is important enough for the processed fabric to legally be considered a new product, made in the country of manufacture rather then where the raw material was sourced.The chairman of a special WTO rules of origin committee has for instance recommended that where textiles are assembled into clothes a new legal product would be formed, but only if that manufacture took place in one ...
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