Rule 7 - Not wholly produced or obtained - Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of Goods under the Free Trade Agreement between the Democratic Socialistic Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of India) Rules, 2000.

7. Not wholly produced or obtained. - (a) Within the meaning of condition (b) of rule 5, products worked on or processed as a result of which the total value of the materials, parts or produce originating from countries other than the Contracting Parties or of undetermined origin used does not exceed sixty five per cent of the f.o.b. value of the products produced or obtained and the final process of manufacture is performed within the territory of the exporting Contracting Party shall be eligible for Preferential treatment, subject to the provisions of clauses (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this rule and rule 8. (b) Non-originating materials shall be considered to be sufficiently worked or processed when the product obtained is classified in a heading, at the four digit level, of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System different from those in which all the non-originating materials used in its manufacture are classified. (c) In order to determine whether a product originates in the territory of a Contracting Party, it shall not be necessary to establish whether the power and fuel, plant and equipment, and machines and tools used to obtain such products originate in third countries or not. (d) The following shall in any event be considered as insufficient working or processing to confer the status of originating products, whether or not there is a change of heading, namely :- (1) Operations to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (ventilation, spreading out, drying, chilling, placing in salt, sulphur dioxide or other aqueous solutions, removal of damaged parts, and like operations). (2) Simple operations consisting of removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting up. (3) (i) changes of packing and breaking up and assembly of consignments, (ii) simple slicing, cutting and re-packing or placing in bottles, flasks, bags, boxes, fixing on cards or boards, etc., and all other simple packing operations. (4) The affixing of marks, labels or other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging. (5) 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 these rules to enable them to be considered as originating products. (6) Simple assembly of parts of products to constitute a complete product. (7) A combination of two or more operations specified in (a) to (f). (8) Slaughter of animals. (e) The value of the non-originating materials, parts or produce shall be :- (i) the c.i.f. value at the time of importation of the materials, parts or produce where this can be proven; or (ii) the earliest ascertainable price paid for the materials, parts or produce of undetermined origin in the territory of the Contracting Parties where the working or processing takes place.