Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter. F.O.B. means free on board, regardless of the mode of transportation, at the point of direct shipment by the seller to the buyer; fungible goods or fungible materials means goods or materials that are interchangeable for commercial purposes and whose properties are essentially identical; Generally Accepted Accounting Principles means the principles used in the territory of each Party, which provide substantial authorized support with regard to the recording of income, costs, expenses, assets and liabilities involved in the disclosure of information and preparation of financial statements. These indicators may be broad guidelines of general application, as well as those standards, practices and procedures usually employed in accounting; goods wholly obtained or produced entirely in the territory of one or both of the Parties means:
Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter competent investigating authority means the "competent investigating authority" of a Party as defined in Annex 805; contribute importantly means an important cause, but not necessarily the most important cause; critical circumstances means circumstances where delay would cause damage that would be difficult to repair; domestic industry means the producers as a whole of the like or directly competitive good operating in the territory of a Party; emergency action does not include any emergency action pursuant to a proceeding instituted prior to January 1, 1994; good originating in the territory of a Party means an originating good, except that in determining the Party in whose territory that good originates, the relevant rules of Annex 302.2 shall apply; serious injury means a significant overall impairment of a domestic industry; surge means a significant increase in imports over the trend for a recent representative base period; threat of serious injury means serious injury that, on the basis of facts and not merely on allegation, conjecture or remote possibility, is clearly imminent; and transition period means the 10-year period beginning on January 1, 1994, except where the good against which the action is taken is provided for in the items in staging category C+ of the Schedule to Annex 302.2 of the Party taking the action, in which case the transition period shall be the period of staged tariff elimination for that good. Part Three. TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE Chapter Nine. STANDARDS-RELATED MEASURES Article 901. Scope and Coverage
Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter. AD Agreement means the Agreement on Implemeniation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, which is part of the WTO Agreement; advertising films and recordings means recorded visual media or audio materials, consisting essentially of images and/or sound, showing the nature or operation of goods or services offered for sale or lease by a person established or resident in the territory of a Party, provided that such materials are of a kind suitable for exhibition to prospective customers but not for broadcast to the general public, and provided that they are imported in packets that each contain no more than one copy of each film or recording and that do not form part of a larger consignment. Agreement on Textiles and Clothing means the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, which is part of the WTO Agreement; agricultural goods means those goods referred to in Article 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture, which is part of the WTO Agreement; articles eligible for duty-free treatment under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences does not include articles eligible only when imported from least-developed beneficiary developing countries or from beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries under the African Growth and Opportunity Act; carrier media means any good of heading 8523 or 8524; commercial samples of negligible value means commercial samples having a value, individually or in the aggregate as shipped, of not more than one U.S. dollar, or the equivalent amount in Chilean currency, or so marked, torn, perforated, or otherwise treated that they are unsuitable for sale or for use except as commercial samples; consular transactions means requirements that goods of a Party intended for export to the territory of the other Party must first be submitted to the supervision of the consul of the importing Party in the territory of the exporting Party for the purpose of obtaining consular invoices or consular visas for commercial invoices, certificates of origin, manifests, shippers' export declarations, or any other customs documentation required on or in connection with importation; consumed means:
Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter. Agreement on Textiles and Clothing means the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, contained in Annex 1A to the WTO Agreement; claim of origin means a claim that a textile or apparel good is an originating good or a good of a Party; exporting Party means the Party from whose territory a textile or apparel good is exported; importing Party means the Party into whose territory a textile or apparel good is imported; small- or medium-sized enterprise means an enterprise that employs fewer than 50 employees; textile or apparel good means a good listed in the Annex to the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing; and transshipped means the removal of a good from the conveyance on which it was brought into the territory of a Party and the placement of the good on the same or another conveyance for the purpose of taking it out of the territory of the Party.
Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter commercial samples of negligible value means commercial samples having a value, individually or in the aggregate as shipped, of not more than the amount specified in a Partyâs laws, regulations, or procedures governing temporary admission, or so marked, torn, perforated, or otherwise treated that they are unsuitable for sale or use except as commercial samples; consular transactions means requirements that goods of a Party intended for export to the territory of the other Party must first be submitted to the supervision of the consul of the importing Party in the territory of the exporting Party for the purpose of obtaining consular invoices or consular visas for commercial invoices, certificates of origin, manifests, shippersâ export declarations, or any other customs documentation required on or in connection with importation; duty-free means free of customs duty; import licensing means an administrative procedure requiring the submission of an application or other documentation (other than that generally required for customs clearance purposes) to the relevant administrative body as a prior condition for importation into the territory of the importing Party; and non-tariff measures means policy measures other than ordinary customs tariffs that can potentially have an economic effect on international trade in goods, changing quantities traded or prices or both.
Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter. Administrative Ruling of General Application Means an Administrative Ruling or Interpretation That Applies to All Persons and Fact Situations That Fall Generally Within Its Ambit and That Establishes a Norm of Conduct but Does Not Include:(a) a Determination or Ruling Made In an Administrative or Quasi- judicial proceeding that applies to a particular person, good, or service of the other Party in a specific case; or
Definitions for Purposes of this Chapter. Cost-oriented means based on cost, and may include a reasonable profit, and may involve different cost methodologies for different facilities or services; end-user means a final consumer of, or subscriber to, a public telecommunications network or service, including a service supplier other than a supplier of public telecommunications networks or services; enterprise means an enterprise as defined in Article 1.4 (General Definitions), and its branch; enterprise of the other Party means both an enterprise constituted or organized under the laws of the other Party and an enterprise owned or controlled by a person of the other Party; essential facilities means facilities of a public telecommunications network or service that: (a) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a single or limited number of suppliers; and (b) cannot feasibly be economically or technically substituted in order to supply a service; interconnection means linking with suppliers providing public telecommunications networks or services in order to allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users of another supplier and to access services provided by another supplier; intra-corporate communications means telecommunications through which a company communicates within the company or with or among its subsidiaries, branches and subject to laws and regulations of a Party, affiliates. For these purposes, subsidiaries, branches and where applicable, affiliates shall be as defined by each Party. Intra-corporate communications excludes commercial or non-commercial services that are supplied to companies that are not related subsidiaries, branches or affiliates, or that are offered to customers or potential customers; leased circuits means telecommunications facilities between two or more designated points that are set aside for the dedicated use of, or availability to, a user; major supplier means a supplier of public telecommunications services that has the ability to materially affect the terms of participation (having regard to price and supply) in the relevant market for public telecommunications services as a result of: (a) control over essential facilities; or (b) use of its position in the market; non-discriminatory means treatment no less favorable than that accorded to any other user of like public telecommunications networks or services in like circumstances; public telecommunications network means telecommunications infrastructure used to provide public telecommunications se...
