Insufficient Operations Sample Clauses
The Insufficient Operations clause defines the consequences and procedures when a party fails to perform the required level of operations under an agreement. Typically, this clause outlines what constitutes insufficient activity, such as not meeting minimum production, service, or usage thresholds, and may specify remedies like penalties, the right to terminate, or the ability for the other party to take corrective action. Its core function is to ensure that both parties remain committed to the agreed operational standards, thereby protecting against underperformance and providing a clear mechanism to address shortfalls.
Insufficient Operations. 1. The following operations or processes shall not be considered as the sufficient transformation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 23:
(a) operations to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (such as drying, freezing, keeping in brine) and other similar operations;
(b) changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of packages;
(c) affixing marks, labels and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;
(d) disassembly;
(e) placing in bottles, cases, boxes and other simple packaging operations;
(f) simple cutting;
(g) simple mixing;
(h) simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product;
(i) simple making-up of sets of articles; and
(j) a combination of two or more operations referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) through (i) above.
2. A Party shall not exclude the value added through any of the operations or processes provided for in paragraph 1 above in calculating the qualifying value content of a good.
3. An originating good shall not lose its originating condition merely because it undergoes, outside the territory of either of the Parties, any of the operations provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article.
Insufficient Operations. 1. The following operations or processes shall not be considered as sufficient production provided for in Article 3.4:
(a) operations to ensure the preservation of goods in good condition during transport and storage (such as drying, freezing, keeping in brine, ventilation, spreading out, chilling, placing in salt, sulphur dioxide or other aqueous solutions, removal of damaged parts, and like operations);
(b) simple operations consisting of removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including assembly of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting;
(c) changes in packing and breaking up and assembly of consignments;
(d) simple cutting, placing in bottles, slicing and re-packing in flasks, bags, boxes, fixing on cards or boards, and all other simple packing operations;
(e) affixing of marks, labels or other like distinguishing signs on goods or their packaging;
(f) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ of animals;
(g) any combination of two or more operations referred to in subparagraphs (a) to (f) above.
2. All operations carried out in a Party on a given good shall be considered together when determining whether the working or processing undergone by that good is to be regarded as insufficient within the meaning of paragraph 1 of this Article.
Insufficient Operations. 1. The following operations or processes shall not be considered as the sufficient transformation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 23:
Insufficient Operations. 1. The following operations or processes shall not be considered as the sufficient transformation provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 23:
(a) operations to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (such as drying, freezing, keeping in brine) and other similar operations;
(b) changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of packages;
(c) affixing marks, labels and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;
(d) disassembly;
(e) placing in bottles, cases, boxes and other simple packaging operations;
(f) simple cutting;
(g) simple mixing;
(h) simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product;
(i) simple making-up of sets of articles; and
(j) a combination of two or more operations referred to in subparagraphs (a) through (i) above.
Insufficient Operations. 1. The following operations or processes shall not be considered as sufficient transformation provided for in Article 3.4:
(a) operations to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (such as drying, freezing, keeping in brine, ventilation, spreading out, chilling, placing in salt, sulphur dioxide or other aqueous solutions, removal of damaged parts, and like operations);
(b) simple operations consisting of removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including the making- up of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting;
(c) changes of packing and breaking up and assembly of consignments;
(d) simple cutting, slicing and repacking or placing in bottles, flasks, bags, boxes, fixing on cards or boards, and all other simple packing operations;
(e) affixing of marks, labels or other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;
(f) simple mixing of products whether or not of different kinds, where one or more components of the mixture do not meet the conditions laid down in this Chapter to enable them to be considered as originating products;
(g) simple assembly of parts of products to constitute a complete product;
(h) disassembly;
(i) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ of animals;
(j) mere dilution with water or another substance that does not materially alter the characteristics of the goods; and
(k) a combination of two or more operations referred to in paragraphs (a) to (j).