seeks to amend the Rules of Determination of Origin of Goods under the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement, (formerly known as the Bangkok Agreement) Rules, 2006.

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....er the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement, (formerly known as the Bangkok Agreement) Rules, 2006, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Rules of Determination of Origin of Goods under the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (formerly known as the Bangkok Agreement) Amendment Rules, 2018. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 2018. 2. In the Rules of Determination of Origin of Goods under the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement, (formerly known as the Bangkok Agreement) Rules, 2006, (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in footnotes,- (i) for footnote 6, the following shall be substituted, namely:- " 6. As at Annexure-C.". (ii) after footnote 8, the following footnotes shall be inserted, namely:- "9. "The aggregate co....

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....iate non-Participating state without any proceedings of import clearance procedures shall be considered as directly consigned from the exporting Participating State to the importing Participating State. The expression of "entered into trade or consumption there" is understood that the import declaration on the product was accepted and the product was released out of a bonded area into the domestic market of the intermediate country to be consumed or subsequently exported under another contract. Therefore, the product that is temporarily stored in the bonded area under the control of customs authority and has not undergone any operations or processes other than those defined in sub-clause (iii) of clause (b) of rule (6), is understood to hav....

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...., which meet the special origin criteria according to Rule 11; 4. Enter letter "E" in Box 8 for products which meet the origin criteria according to sub-rule (b) of rule 4. Entry of letter "E" would be followed by the criteria of the rules of origin (example "E" CTH).". 4. In the said rules, after Annexue-B, the following Annexure shall be inserted, namely:- "ANNEXURE - C Sectoral RoO (Rules of Origin) of APTA Annex note: 1. In accordance with sub-rule (b) of rule 4, the criteria specified in column 4 below shall apply for the products listed therein. 2. The origin criteria under column 4 and sub-rule (a) of rule 4, respectively, would be applied sequentially to specific items. If the products cannot meet the criteria under column ....