Common use of General Interpretative Note Clause in Contracts

General Interpretative Note. 1. A requirement of a change in tariff classification applies only to non- originating materials. 2. Where a specific rule of origin is defined using the criterion of a change in tariff classification, and it is written to exempt tariff items at the level of a Chapter, heading or subheading of the Harmonized System, it shall be construed to mean that the materials corresponding to such tariff items must be originating for the good to qualify as originating. 3. When a specific rule of origin is defined using the criterion of change in tariff classification, and the terms “within that subheading” or “within that heading” are used, it shall be construed that any production process confers origin, except for those processes set out under Article IV.12 (Operations and practices that do not confer origin).