Insufficient working or processing
Article 47
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, the following operations shall be considered as insufficient working or processing to confer the status of originating products, whether or not the requirements of Article 45 are satisfied: (a) preserving operations to ensure that the products remain in good condition during transport and storage; (b) breaking-up and assembly of packages; (c) washing, cleaning; removal of dust, oxide, oil, paint or other coverings; (d) ironing or pressing of textiles and textile articles; (e) simple painting and polishing operations; (f) husking and partial or total milling of rice; polishing and glazing of cereals and rice; (g) operations to colour or flavour sugar or form sugar lumps; partial or total milling of crystal sugar; (h) peeling, stoning and shelling, of fruits, nuts and vegetables; (i) sharpening, simple grinding or simple cutting; (j) sifting, screening, sorting, classifying, grading, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles); (k) simple placing in bottles, cans, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards and all other simple packaging operations; (l) affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging; (m) simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds; mixing of sugar with any material; (n) simple addition of water or dilution or dehydration or denaturation of products; (o) simple assembly of parts of articles to constitute a complete article or disassembly of products into parts; (p) slaughter of animals ; (q) a combination of two or more of the operations specified in points (a) to (p). 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, operations shall be considered simple when neither special skills nor machines, apparatus or tools especially produced or installed for those operations are required for their performance. 3. All the operations carried out in a beneficiary country on a given product shall be taken into account when determining whether the working or processing undergone by that product is to be regarded as insufficient within the meaning of paragraph 1.