{"data":[{"id":"cameroon","type":"rules_of_origin_scheme","attributes":{"scheme_code":"cameroon","title":"UK-Cameroon Economic Partnership Agreement","countries":["CM"],"footnote":null,"unilateral":null,"fta_intro":"### UK-Cameroon economic partnership agreement (EPA)\n\nThe UK has signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Cameroon, which is in force.\n\nEPAs are principally development-focused trade agreements that aim to promote increased trade and investment. They contribute to sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.\n\n### What the agreement includes\n\nThe UK commits to providing immediate duty-free, quota-free access to goods exported from Cameroon.\n\nIn exchange, Cameroon commits to gradual tariff liberalisation of goods. Some domestically sensitive products in Cameroon are excluded from tariff liberalisation.\n\nThis EPA includes provisions on:\n\n- trade in goods - including provisions on preferential tariffs, customs and rules of origin\n- sanitary and phytosanitary measures\n- technical barriers to trade\n- trade remedies\n","introductory_notes":"### Note 1:\n\nThe list sets out the conditions required for all products to be considered as sufficiently worked or processed within the meaning of Article 4 of this Annex.\n\n### Note 2:\n\n1. The first two columns in the list describe the product obtained. The first column gives the heading number or chapter number used in the Harmonised System and the second column gives the description of goods used in that system for that heading or chapter. For each entry in the first two columns a rule is specified in column 3 or 4. Where, in some cases, the entry in the first column is preceded by an ‘ex’, this signifies that the rules in column 3 or 4 apply only to the part of that heading as described in column 2.\n\n2. Where several heading numbers are grouped together in column 1 or a chapter number is given and the description of products in column 2 is therefore given in general terms, the adjacent rules in column 3 or 4 apply to all products which, under the Harmonised System, are classified in headings of the chapter or in any of the headings grouped together in column 1.\n\n3. Where there are different rules in the list applying to different products within a heading, each indent contains the description of that part of the heading covered by the adjacent rules in column 3 or 4.\n\n4. Where, for an entry in the first two columns, a rule is specified in both columns 3 and 4, the exporter may opt to apply either the rule set out in column 3 or that set out in column 4. If no origin rule is given in column 4, the rule set out in column 3 has to be applied.\n\n### Note 3:\n\n1. The provisions of Article 4 of this Annex concerning products having acquired originating status which are used in the manufacture of other products apply regardless of whether that status has been acquired inside the factory where those products are used or in another factory in the Union or in the ACP States.\n\n   Example:\n\n   An engine of heading 8407, for which the rule states that the value of the non-originating materials which may be incorporated may not exceed 40 % of the ex-works price, is made from ‘other alloy steel roughly shaped by forging’ of heading ex 7224.\n\n   If that forging has been forged in the Union from a non-originating ingot, it has already acquired originating status by virtue of the rule for heading ex 7224 in the list. The forging can then count as originating in the value calculation for the engine regardless of whether it was produced in the same factory or in another factory in the Union. The value of the non-originating ingot is thus not taken into account when adding up the value of the non-originating materials used.\n\n2. The rule in the list represents the minimum amount of working or processing required and the carrying out of more working or processing also confers originating status; conversely, the carrying out of less working or processing cannot confer originating status. Therefore, if a rule provides that non-originating material at a certain level of manufacture may be used, the use of such material at an earlier stage of manufacture is allowed and the use of such material at a later stage is not.\n\n3. Without prejudice to Note 3.2, where a rule states that ‘materials of any heading’ may be used, materials of the same heading as the product may also be used, subject, however, to any specific limitations which may also be contained in the rule. However, the expression ‘manufacture from materials of any heading, including other materials of heading …’ means that only materials classified in the same heading as the product of a description other than that of the product as given in column 2 of the list may be used.\n\n4. When a rule in the list specifies that a product may be manufactured from more than one material, this means that one or more materials may be used. It does not require that all be used.\n\n   Example:\n\n   The rule for fabrics of headings 5208 to 5212 provides that natural fibres may be used and those chemical materials, among other materials, may also be used. This does not mean that both have to be used; it is possible to use one or the other or both.\n\n5. Where a rule in the list specifies that a product must be manufactured from a particular material, the condition does not prevent the use of other materials which, because of their inherent nature, cannot satisfy the rule. (See also Note 6.3 below in relation to textiles).\n\n   Example:\n\n   The rule for prepared foods of heading 1904 which specifically excludes the use of cereals and their derivatives does not prevent the use of mineral salts, chemicals and other additives which are not produced from cereals.\n\n   However, this does not apply to products which, although they cannot be manufactured from the particular materials specified in the list, can be produced from a material of the same nature at an earlier stage of manufacture.\n\n   Example:\n\n   In the case of an article of apparel of ex Chapter 62 made from non-woven materials, if the use of only non-originating yarn is allowed for this class of article, it is not possible to start from non-woven cloth - even if non-woven cloths cannot normally be made from yarn. In such cases, the starting material would normally be at the stage before yarn - that is the fibre stage.\n\n6. Where, in a rule in the list, two percentages are given for the maximum value of non-originating materials that can be used, then those percentages may not be added together. In other words, the maximum value of all the non-originating materials used may never exceed the higher of the percentages given. Furthermore, the individual percentages must not be exceeded in relation to the particular materials to which they apply.\n\n### Note 4:\n\n1. The term ‘natural fibres’ is used in the list to refer to fibres other than artificial or synthetic fibres. It is restricted to the stages before spinning takes place, including waste, and, unless otherwise specified, includes fibres that have been carded, combed or otherwise processed but not spun.\n\n2. The term ‘natural fibres’ includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003 as well as the wool fibres, fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, the cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203 and the other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.\n\n3. The terms ‘textile pulp’, ‘chemical materials’ and ‘paper-making materials’ are used in the list to describe the materials not classified in Chapters 50 to 63, which can be used to manufacture artificial, synthetic or paper fibres or yarns.\n\n4. The term ‘man-made staple fibres’ is used in the list to refer to synthetic or artificial filament tow, staple fibres or waste, of headings 5501 to 5507.\n\n### Note 5:\n\n1. Where for a given product in the list a reference is made to this Note, the conditions set out in column 3 shall not be applied to any basic textile materials, used in the manufacture of that product, which, taken together, represent 10 % or less of the total weight of all the basic textile materials used. (See also Notes 5.3 and 5.4 below).\n\n2. However, the tolerance mentioned in Note 5.1 may only be applied to mixed products which have been made from two or more basic textile materials.\n\n   The following are the basic textile materials:\n\n   - silk,\n   - wool,\n   - coarse animal hair,\n   - fine animal hair,\n   - horsehair,\n   - cotton,\n   - paper-making materials and paper,\n   - flax,\n   - true hemp,\n   - jute and other textile bast fibres,\n   - sisal and other textile fibres of the genus Agave,\n   - coconut, abaca, ramie and other vegetable textile fibres,\n   - synthetic man-made filaments,\n   - artificial man-made filaments,\n   - current conducting filaments,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polypropylene,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyester,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyamide,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyacrylonitrile,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyimide,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polytetrafluoroethylene,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyphenylene sulphide,\n   - synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyvinyl chloride,\n   - other synthetic man-made staple fibres,\n   - artificial man-made staple fibres of viscose,\n   - other artificial man-made staple fibres,\n   - yarn made of polyurethane segmented with flexible segments of polyether whether or not gimped,\n   - yarn made of polyurethane segmented with flexible segments of polyester whether or not gimped,\n   - products of heading 5605 (metallised yarn) incorporating strip consisting of a core of aluminium foil or of a core of plastic film whether or not coated with aluminium powder, of a width not exceeding 5 mm, sandwiched by means of a transparent or coloured adhesive between two layers of plastic film,\n   - other products of heading 5605.\n\n   Example:\n\n   A yarn of heading 5205 made from cotton fibres of heading 5203 and synthetic staple fibres of heading 5506 is a mixed yarn. Therefore, non-originating synthetic staple fibres that do not satisfy the origin rules (which require manufacture from chemical materials or textile pulp) may be used up to a weight of 10 % of the yarn.\n\n   Example:\n\n   A woollen fabric of heading 5112 made from woollen yarn of heading 5107 and synthetic yarn of staple fibres of heading 5509 is a mixed fabric. Therefore synthetic yarn which does not satisfy the origin rules (which require manufacture from chemical materials or textile pulp) or woollen yarn that does not satisfy the origin rules (which require manufacture from natural fibres, not carded or combed or otherwise prepared for spinning) or a combination of the two may be used provided their total weight does not exceed 10 % of the weight of the fabric.\n\n   Example:\n\n   Tufted textile fabric of heading 5802 made from cotton yarn of heading 5205 and cotton fabric of heading 5210 is only a mixed product if the cotton fabric is itself a mixed fabric being made from yarns classified in two separate headings or if the cotton yarns used are themselves mixtures.\n\n   Example:\n\n   If the tufted textile fabric concerned had been made from cotton yarn of heading 5205 and synthetic fabric of heading 5407, then, obviously, the yarns used are two separate basic textile materials and the tufted textile fabric is accordingly a mixed product.\n\n3. In the case of products incorporating ‘yarn made of polyurethane segmented with flexible segments of polyether whether or not gimped’ the tolerance is 20 % in respect of the yarn.\n\n4. In the case of products incorporating ‘strip consisting of a core of aluminium foil or of a core of plastic film whether or not coated with aluminium powder, of a width not exceeding 5 mm, sandwiched by means of an adhesive between two layers of plastic film’, the tolerance is 30 % in respect of the strip.\n\n### Note 6:\n\n1. In the case of those textile products, which are marked in the list by a footnote referring to this Introductory Note, textile trimmings and accessories which do not satisfy the rule set out in the list in column 3 for the made up products concerned may be used provided that their weight does not exceed 10 % of the total weight of all the textile materials incorporated.\n   Textile trimmings and accessories are those classified in Chapters 50 to 63. Linings and interlinings are not to be regarded as trimmings or accessories.\n\n2. Any non-textile trimmings and accessories or other materials used which contain textiles do not have to satisfy the conditions set out in column 3 even though they fall outside the scope of Note 3.5.\n\n3. In accordance with Note 3.5, any non-originating non-textile trimmings and accessories or other product, which do not contain any textiles, may anyway, be used freely where they cannot be made from the materials listed in column 3.\n\n   For example (¹), if a rule in the list says that for a particular textile item, such as a blouse, yarn must be used, this does not prevent the use of metal items, such as buttons, because they cannot be made from textile materials.\n\n4. Where a percentage rule applies, the value of trimmings and accessories must be taken into account when calculating the value of the non-originating materials incorporated.\n\n### Note 7:\n\n1. For the purposes of headings ex 2707, 2713 to 2715, ex 2901, ex 2902 and ex 3403, the ‘specific processes’ are the following:\n   1. vacuum distillation;\n   2. redistillation by a very thorough fractionation process (²);\n   3. cracking;\n   4. reforming;\n   5. extraction by means of selective solvents;\n   6. the process comprising all the following operations: processing with concentrated sulphuric acid, oleum or sulphuric anhydride; neutralisation with alkaline agents; decolourisation and purification with naturally active earth, activated earth, activated charcoal or bauxite;\n   7. polymerisation;\n   8. alkylation;\n   9. isomerisation.\n\n2. For the purposes of headings 2710, 2711 and 2712, the ‘specific processes’ are the following:\n\n    1. vacuum distillation;\n    2. redistillation by a very thorough fractionation process (²);\n    3. cracking;\n    4. reforming;\n    5. extraction by means of selective solvents;\n    6. the process comprising all the following operations: processing with concentrated sulphuric acid, oleum or sulphuric anhydride; neutralisation with alkaline agents; decolourisation and purification with naturally active earth, activated earth, activated charcoal or bauxite;\n    7. polymerisation;\n    8. alkylation;\n    9. isomerisation;\n    10. in respect of heavy oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, desulphurisation with hydrogen resulting in a reduction of at least 85 % of the sulphur content of the products processed (ASTM D 1266-59 T method);\n    11. in respect of products falling within heading 2710 only, deparaffining by a process other than filtering;\n    12. in respect of heavy oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, treatment with hydrogen at a pressure of more than 20 bar and a temperature of more than 250 °C with the use of a catalyst, other than to effect desulphurisation, when the hydrogen constitutes an active element in a chemical reaction. The further treatment with hydrogen of lubricating oils of heading ex 2710 (e.g. hydrofinishing or decolourisation) in order, more especially, to improve colour or stability shall not, however, be deemed to be a specific process;\n    13. in respect of fuel oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, atmospheric distillation, on condition that less than 30 % of those products distils, by volume, including losses, at 300 °C by the ASTM D 86 method;\n    14. in respect of heavy oils other than gas oils and fuel oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, treatment by means of a high-frequency electrical brush-discharge.\n\n3. For the purposes of headings ex 2707, 2713 to 2715, ex 2901, ex 2902 and ex 3403, simple operations such as cleaning, decanting, desalting, water separation, filtering, colouring, marking, obtaining a sulphur content as a result of mixing products with different sulphur contents, any combination of those operations or like operations do not confer origin.\n\n(¹) This example is given for the purpose of explanation only. It is not legally binding.\n(²) See additional Explanatory Note 4(b) to Chapter 27 of the Combined Nomenclature.\n","cumulation_methods":{"bilateral":["GB","CM"],"extended":["EU","AD","SM","AG","BS","BB","BZ","BW","CI","DM","DO","FJ","GH","GD","GY","JM","KE","LS","MG","MU","MZ","NA","PG","KN","LC","VC","SC","SR","SZ","TT","ZW","GL","NC","PF","PM","BL","TF","WF","AW","CW","SX","AI","BM","KY","FK","GS","MS","PN","SH","ZU","IO","TC","VG"]},"proof_intro":null,"proof_codes":{},"show_proofs_for_geographical_areas":[]},"relationships":{"rules":{"data":[]},"links":{"data":[{"id":"4db52932c546c109a239195d94f46f89","type":"rules_of_origin_link"},{"id":"909c065dc23be4df14b0efe2aa58bbb5","type":"rules_of_origin_link"}]},"proofs":{"data":[{"id":"cc12540c661350d8adc264db2b329b00","type":"rules_of_origin_proof"},{"id":"c0495d6ac91f75571a6867500ac744cc","type":"rules_of_origin_proof"}]},"articles":{"data":[{"id":"cameroon/packaging","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/direct-transport","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/sufficiently-worked","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/neutral-elements","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/cumulation-export","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/wholly-obtained-verbatim","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/sets","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/originating_export","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/accessories","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/verification","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/origin_processes","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/wholly-obtained-vessels","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/cumulation-import","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/insufficient-processing","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/originating_import","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/wholly-obtained","type":"rules_of_origin_article"},{"id":"cameroon/tolerances","type":"rules_of_origin_article"}]},"rule_sets":{"data":[{"id":"022a1104f9158730d6a4e52ae9e34f7e","type":"rules_of_origin_rule_set"},{"id":"71b649883e60f9f6e189b26584ec1ba9","type":"rules_of_origin_rule_set"}]},"origin_reference_document":{"data":{"id":"a17c186e9300d495c391bcbe9b941844","type":"rules_of_origin_origin_reference_document"}}}}],"included":[{"id":"4db52932c546c109a239195d94f46f89","type":"rules_of_origin_link","attributes":{"text":"UK-Cameroon Economic Partnership Agreement","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-cameroon-economic-partnership-agreement","source":"scheme"}},{"id":"909c065dc23be4df14b0efe2aa58bbb5","type":"rules_of_origin_link","attributes":{"text":"Trade with Cameroon","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/summary-of-the-uk-cameroon-economic-partnership-agreement","source":"scheme"}},{"id":"cc12540c661350d8adc264db2b329b00","type":"rules_of_origin_proof","attributes":{"summary":"EUR.1 movement certificate","subtext":"","url":null,"content":"Use form EUR.1 to claim preferential duty rates on goods exported to or imported from countries that have a preferential trading agreement with the European Community.\n\n- [Download a copy of the EUR.1 movement certificate](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eur1-and-eur-med-movement-certificate)\n- [How to complete the EUR.1 movement certificate](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eur1-and-eur-med-movement-certificate/how-to-complete-the-movement-certificate)\n\n#### Procedure for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1\n\n1. A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities of Cameroon on application having been made in writing by the exporter or, under the exporter's responsibility, by the authorised representative of the exporter.\n\n2. For that purpose, the exporter or the authorised representative of the exporter shall fill out both the movement certificate EUR.1 and the application form, specimens of which appear in Appendix 3. Those forms shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document. If they are handwritten, they shall be completed in ink in printed characters. The description of the products shall be given in the box reserved for that purpose without leaving any blank lines. Where the box is not completely filled, a horizontal line shall be drawn below the last line of the description, the empty space being crossed through.\n\n3. The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of Cameroon, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n4. A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities of Cameroon if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6, and fulfil the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n5. The issuing customs authorities shall take any steps necessary to verify the originating status of the products and the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document. For that purpose they shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any other check considered appropriate. The issuing customs authorities shall also ensure that the forms referred to in paragraph 2 are duly completed. In particular, they shall check whether the space reserved for the description of the products has been completed in such a manner as to exclude all possibility of fraudulent additions.\n\n6. The date of issue of the movement certificate EUR.1 shall be indicated in box 11 of the certificate.\n\n7. A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities and made available to the exporter as soon as actual exportation has been effected or ensured.\n\n#### Movement certificates EUR.1 issued retrospectively\n\n1. Notwithstanding Article 15(7), a movement certificate EUR.1 may exceptionally be issued after exportation of the products to which it relates if:\n\n    (a) it was not issued at the time of exportation because of errors or involuntary omissions or special circumstances; or\n\n    (b) it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that a movement certificate EUR.1 was issued but was not accepted at importation for technical reasons.\n\n2. For the implementation of paragraph 1, the exporter shall indicate in the application the place and date of exportation of the products to which the movement certificate EUR.1 relates, and state the reasons for that request.\n\n3. The customs authorities may issue a movement certificate EUR.1 retrospectively only after verifying that the information supplied in the exporter's application complies with that in the corresponding file.\n\n4. Movement certificates EUR.1 issued retrospectively shall be endorsed with the following phrase:\n\n    'ISSUED RETROSPECTIVELY'\n\n5. The endorsement referred to in paragraph 4 shall be inserted in box 7 of the movement certificate EUR.1.\n\n#### Issue of a duplicate movement certificate EUR.1\n\n1. In the event of theft, loss or destruction of a movement certificate EUR.1, the exporter may apply to the customs authorities which issued it for a duplicate made out on the basis of the export documents in their possession.\n\n2. The duplicate issued in this way shall be endorsed with the following word:\n\n    'DUPLICATE'\n\n3. The endorsement referred to in paragraph 2 shall be inserted in box 7 of the duplicate movement certificate EUR.1.\n\n4. The duplicate, which shall bear the date of issue of the original movement certificate EUR.1, shall take effect as from that date.\n\n#### Issue of movement certificates EUR.1 on the basis of a proof of origin issued or made out previously\n\nWhen originating products are placed under the control of a customs office in Cameroon or in the United Kingdom, it shall be possible to replace the original proof of origin by one or more movement certificates EUR.1 for the purpose of sending all or some of those products elsewhere within Cameroon or within the United Kingdom. The replacement movement certificate or certificates EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs office under whose control the products are placed.\n"}},{"id":"c0495d6ac91f75571a6867500ac744cc","type":"rules_of_origin_proof","attributes":{"summary":"Invoice declaration","subtext":"","url":null,"content":"An 'invoice declaration', given by the exporter on an invoice, a delivery note or any other commercial document describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified. The text of the invoice declaration appears in Appendix 4 of the [Origin Reference Document]({ord_url}).\n\nAn origin declaration may be made out:\n\n- by an approved exporter, _or_\n\n- by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or more packages containing originating products whose total value does not exceed £5,400 / 6,000 euros.\n\nInvoice declarations are also known as origin declarations. Find out more about using [origin declarations](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-proof-of-origin-for-your-goods#origin-declaration).\n\n#### Conditions for making out an invoice declaration\n\n1. An invoice declaration as referred to in point (b) of Article 14(1) may be made out:\n\n    (a) by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 20; or\n\n    (b) by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or more packages containing originating products whose total value does not exceed EUR 6 000.\n\n2. An invoice declaration may be made out if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6 and fulfil the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n3. The exporter making out an invoice declaration shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of Cameroon, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n4. An invoice declaration shall be made out by the exporter by typing, stamping or printing on the invoice, the delivery note or another commercial document the declaration the text of which appears in Appendix 4, using one of the linguistic versions set out in that Appendix and in accordance with the provisions of the domestic law of Cameroon. If the declaration is handwritten, it shall be written in ink in printed characters.\n\n5. Invoice declarations shall bear the original signature of the exporter in manuscript. However, an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 20 shall not be required to sign such declarations provided that he or she gives the customs authorities of Cameroon a written undertaking that he or she accepts full responsibility for any invoice declaration which identifies him or her as if it had been signed in manuscript by him or her.\n\n6. An invoice declaration may be made out by the exporter when the products to which it relates are exported, or after exportation on condition that it is presented in the United Kingdom no longer than two years after the importation of the products to which it relates.\n\n#### Approved exporter\n\n1. The customs authorities of Cameroon may authorise any exporter who makes frequent shipments of products under the provisions of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement to make out invoice declarations irrespective of the value of the products concerned. An exporter seeking such authorisation shall offer to the satisfaction of the customs authorities all guarantees necessary to verify the originating status of the products as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n2. The customs authorities of Cameroon may grant the status of approved exporter subject to any conditions which they consider appropriate.\n\n3. The customs authorities of Cameroon shall grant to the approved exporter a customs authorisation number which shall appear on the invoice declaration.\n\n4. The customs authorities of Cameroon shall monitor the use of the authorisation by the approved exporter.\n\n5. The customs authorities of Cameroon may withdraw the authorisation at any time. They shall do so where the approved exporter no longer offers the guarantees referred to in paragraph 1, does not fulfil the conditions referred to in paragraph 2 or otherwise makes incorrect use of the authorisation.\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/packaging","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"packaging","content":"Where, under paragraph 5 of Part Two, Section 1, of the Tariff of the United Kingdom, packaging is included with the product for classification purposes, it shall be included for the purposes of determining origin.\n\n{{ Article 7 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/direct-transport","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"direct-transport","content":"1. The preferential treatment provided for in the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement shall apply only to products that satisfy the requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document and are transported directly between the territories of Cameroon, of the United Kingdom, of eligible ACP States, of the EU, of the OCT or of South Africa for the purposes of Article 6 without entering any other territory. However, products constituting one single consignment may be transported through other territories with, should the occasion arise, transhipment or temporary warehousing in such territories, provided that they remain under the surveillance of the customs authorities in the country of transit or warehousing and do not undergo operations other than unloading, reloading or any operation designed to preserve them in good condition.\n\n    Originating products may be transported by pipeline across territory other than that of Cameroon or of the United Kingdom.\n\n2. Consignments that are transported through the territory of the EU may undergo operations including unloading, reloading, splitting, storing, labelling, marking or any operation designed to preserve them in good condition provided they remain under the surveillance of the customs authorities in the EU Member State.\n\n3. Evidence that the conditions set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 have been fulfilled shall be supplied to the customs authorities of the United Kingdom by the production of:\n\n   1. a single transport document covering the passage from Cameroon through the country of transit; or\n\n   2. a certificate issued by the customs authorities of the country of transit:\n\n      1. giving an exact description of the products;\n\n      2. stating the dates of unloading and reloading of the products and, where applicable, the names of the ships, or the other means of transport used; and\n\n      3. certifying the conditions under which the products remained in the transit country; or\n\n   3. failing those, any substantiating documents.\n\n{{ Article 12 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/sufficiently-worked","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"sufficiently-worked","content":"### Sufficiently worked or processed products\n\n1. For the purposes of Part A of this Origin Reference Document, products which are not wholly obtained shall be considered to be sufficiently worked or processed in Cameroon when the conditions set out in the list in Appendix 2 or in Appendix 2A are fulfilled. Those conditions indicate, for all products covered by the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement, the working or processing which must be carried out on non-originating materials used in manufacturing and apply only in relation to such materials. Accordingly, it follows that if a product, which has acquired originating status by fulfilling the conditions set out in the list is used in the manufacture of another product, the conditions applicable to the product in which it is incorporated do not apply to it, and no account shall be taken of the non-originating materials which may have been used in its manufacture.\n\n2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, non-originating materials which, according to the conditions set out in Appendices 2 and 2A, should not be used in the manufacture of a given product may nevertheless be used, provided that:\n\n(a) their total value does not exceed 15 % of the ex-works price of the product;\n\n(b) none of the percentages given in the list for the maximum value of non-originating materials are exceeded through the application of this paragraph.\n\nThis paragraph shall not apply to products falling within Chapters 50 to 63 of HS 1996.\n\n3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply except as provided for in Article 5.\n\n{{ Article 4 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/neutral-elements","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"neutral-elements","content":"\nIn order to determine whether a product is an originating product, it shall not be necessary to determine the origin of the following which might be used in its manufacture:\n\n- energy and fuel;\n\n- plant and equipment;\n\n- machines and tools;\n\n- goods which do not enter and which are not intended to enter into the final composition of the product.\n\n{{ Article 10 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/cumulation-export","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"cumulation-export","content":"### Cumulation of origin\n\n1. Materials originating in the United Kingdom, the EU, the OCT or eligible ACP States shall be considered as materials originating in Cameroon when incorporated into a product obtained there. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing, provided they have undergone working or processing beyond that referred to in Article 5.\n\n2. Working and processing carried out in the United Kingdom, the EU, the OCT or eligible ACP States shall be considered as having been carried out in Cameroon when the materials undergo subsequent working or processing in Cameroon beyond that referred to in Article 5.\n\n3. In determining whether, for the purposes of paragraph 1, the products/materials originate:\n\n   1. in eligible ACP States, the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document shall apply mutatis mutandis;\n\n   2. in the United Kingdom, the OCT or the EU the provisions of Part B of this Origin Reference Document shall apply mutatis mutandis.\n\n4. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 10, materials originating in South Africa shall be considered as originating in Cameroon when incorporated into a product obtained there provided they have undergone working or processing beyond that referred to in Article 5. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing.\n\n5. Products which have acquired originating status by virtue of paragraph 4 shall continue to be considered as products originating in Cameroon only when the value added there exceeds the value of the materials used that originate in South Africa. If that is not so, the products concerned shall be considered as originating in South Africa. In the allocation of origin, no account shall be taken of materials originating in South Africa which have undergone sufficient working or processing in Cameroon.\n\n6. The cumulation provided for in paragraph 4 shall not apply to the products listed in Appendices 7 and 10.\n\n7. The cumulation provided for in paragraph 4 shall apply to the products listed in Appendix 8 only when the United Kingdom tariffs on those products have been eliminated on imports from South Africa. The United Kingdom shall publish the date on which the conditions of this paragraph have been fulfilled on the gov.uk website.\n\n8. Without prejudice to paragraphs 6 and 7, working and processing carried out in South Africa shall be considered as having been carried out in another Member State of the South African Customs Union (SACU), being an eligible ACP State, when the materials undergo subsequent working or processing in that other Member State of the SACU.\n\n9. Without prejudice to paragraphs 6 and 7 and at the request of Cameroon, working and processing carried out in South Africa shall be considered as having been carried out in Cameroon or in an eligible ACP State when the materials undergo subsequent working or processing in Cameroon or in an eligible ACP State within the context of a regional economic integration agreement.\n\n10. The request shall be submitted by Cameroon to the United Kingdom, which shall take a decision on the request in accordance with its internal procedures.\n\n11. The cumulation provided for in paragraph 4 may be applied only where the South African materials used have acquired the status of originating products through the application of rules of origin identical to those set out in Part A of this Origin Reference Document. The cumulation provided for in paragraphs 8 and 9 may be applied only through the application of rules of origin identical to those set out in Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n12. At the request of Cameroon, materials originating in a neighbouring developing country, other than an eligible ACP State, belonging to a coherent geographical entity, shall be considered as materials originating in Cameroon when incorporated into a product obtained there. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing, provided that:\n\n    1.  the working or processing carried out in Cameroon exceeds the operations listed in Article 5, and\n\n    2.  Cameroon, the United Kingdom and the other countries concerned have concluded an agreement on adequate administrative procedures which will ensure correct implementation of this paragraph.\n\n    This paragraph shall not apply to tuna products classified under Chapter 3 or 16 and to rice products under tariff heading 1006.\nFor the purpose of determining whether products originate in a neighbouring developing country, the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document shall apply.\nRequests shall be submitted by Cameroon to the United Kingdom, which shall take a decision on the request in accordance with its internal procedures. Such decisions shall also identify the products for which cumulation provided for under this paragraph may not be permitted.\n\n{{ Article 6 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/wholly-obtained-verbatim","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"wholly-obtained-verbatim","content":"## Wholly obtained products\n\n1. The following shall be considered as wholly obtained in Cameroon:\n\n    1. mineral products extracted from its soil or from its seabed;\n\n    2. vegetable products harvested there;\n\n    3. live animals born and raised there;\n\n    4. products from live animals raised there;\n\n    5. products obtained by hunting or fishing conducted there;\n\n    6. products of aquaculture, including mariculture, where the fish are born and raised there;\n\n    7. products of sea fishing and other products taken from the sea outside its territorial waters by its vessels;\n\n    8. products made aboard its factory ships exclusively from products referred to in point (g);\n\n    9. used articles collected there fit only for the recovery of raw materials, including used tyres fit only for retreading or for use as waste;\n\n    10. waste and scrap resulting from manufacturing operations conducted there;\n\n    11. products extracted from marine soil or subsoil outside its territorial waters provided that it has sole rights to work that soil or subsoil;\n\n    12. goods produced there exclusively from the products specified in points (a) to (k).\n\n2. The terms 'its vessels' and 'its factory ships' in points (g) and (h) of paragraph 1 shall apply only to vessels and factory ships which:\n\n    1. are registered in Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP State or a Member State of the EU;\n\n    2. fly the flag of Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP State or a Member State of the EU; and\n\n    3. meet one of the following conditions:\n\n       1. they are at least 50 % owned by nationals of Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP state or a Member State of the EU; or\n\n       2. they are owned by companies which:\n\n          1. have their head office and their main place of business in Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP state or a Member State of the EU, and\n\n          2. are at least 50 % owned by Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP state or a Member State of the EU, public entities of that State or nationals of that State.\n\n3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the United Kingdom shall, upon request by Cameroon, recognise vessels chartered or leased by Cameroon to undertake fisheries activities in its exclusive economic zone as 'its vessels' under the following conditions:\n\n   1. that Cameroon offered the United Kingdom the opportunity to negotiate a fisheries agreement and the United Kingdom did not accept that offer; *and*\n\n   2. that the charter or lease contract has been accepted by the United Kingdom as providing adequate opportunities for the development of the capacity of Cameroon to fish on its own account and in particular as conferring on Cameroon the responsibility for the nautical and commercial management of the vessel placed at its disposal for a significant period of time.\n\n{{ Article 3 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/sets","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"sets","content":"### Sets\n\nSets, as defined in paragraph 3 of Part Two, Section 1, of the Tariff of the United Kingdom, shall be regarded as originating when all the component products are originating. Nevertheless, when a set is composed of originating and non-originating products, the set as a whole shall be regarded as originating, provided that the value of the non-originating products does not exceed 15 % of the ex-works price of the set.\n\n{{ Article 9 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/originating_export","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"originating_export","content":"For the purposes of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement, the following products shall be considered as originating in Cameroon:\n\n- products **wholly obtained** in Cameroon *or*\n\n- products obtained in Cameroon incorporating materials which have not been wholly obtained there, provided that such materials have undergone **sufficient working or processing** in Cameroon.\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/accessories","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"accessories","content":"Accessories, spare parts and tools dispatched with a piece of equipment, machine, apparatus or vehicle, which are part of the normal equipment and included in the price thereof or which are not separately invoiced, shall be regarded as one with the piece of equipment, machine, apparatus or vehicle in question.\n\n{{ Article 7 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/verification","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"verification","content":"## Verification of proofs of origin\n\n1. Subsequent verifications of proofs of origin shall be carried out at random or whenever the customs authorities of the United Kingdom have reasonable doubts as to the authenticity of such documents, the originating status of the products concerned or the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n2. For the purposes of implementing paragraph 1, the customs authorities of the United Kingdom shall return the movement certificate EUR.1 and the invoice, if it has been submitted, the invoice declaration, or a copy of those documents to the customs authorities of Cameroon giving, where appropriate, the reasons for the request for verification. Any documents and information obtained suggesting that the information given on the proof of origin is incorrect shall be forwarded in support of the request for verification.\n\n3. The verification shall be carried out by the customs authorities of Cameroon. For that purpose, they shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any other check considered appropriate.\n\n4. If the customs authorities of the United Kingdom decide to suspend the granting of preferential treatment to the products concerned while awaiting the results of the verification, release of the products shall be offered to the importer subject to any precautionary measures judged necessary.\n\n5. The customs authorities requesting the verification shall be informed of the results of that verification as soon as possible. Those results shall indicate clearly whether the documents are authentic and whether the products concerned can be considered as products originating in Cameroon or in one of the countries or territories referred to in Article 6 and fulfil the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n6. If in cases of reasonable doubt there is no reply within ten months of the date of the verification request or if the reply does not contain sufficient information to determine the authenticity of the document in question or the real origin of the products, the requesting customs authorities shall, except in exceptional circumstances, refuse entitlement to the preferences.\n\n7. Where the verification procedure or any other information available appears to indicate that the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document are being contravened, appropriate enquiries shall be carried out with due urgency to identify and prevent such contraventions.\n\n## Verification of suppliers' declarations\n\n1. Verification of suppliers' declarations shall be carried out at random or whenever the customs authorities of the United Kingdom have reasonable doubts as to the authenticity of the document or the accuracy or completeness of the information concerning the true origin of the materials in question.\n\n2. The customs authorities to which a supplier's declaration is submitted may request the customs authorities of the State where the declaration was made to issue an information certificate, a specimen of which appears in Appendix 6. Alternatively, the customs authorities to which a supplier's declaration is submitted may request the exporter to produce an information certificate issued by the customs authorities of the State where the declaration was made.\n\n    A copy of the information certificate shall be preserved by the office which issued it for at least three years.\n\n3. The customs authorities requesting the verification shall be informed of the results of the verification as soon as possible. The results shall indicate clearly whether the declaration concerning the status of the materials is correct.\n\n4. For the purpose of verification, suppliers shall keep a copy of the document containing the declaration together with all necessary evidence showing the true status of the materials for not less than three years.\n\n5. The customs authorities in the State where the supplier's declaration is drawn up shall have the right to call for any evidence or to carry out any check which they consider appropriate in order to verify the correctness of any supplier's declaration.\n\n6. Any movement certificate EUR.1 or invoice declaration issued or made out on the basis of an incorrect supplier's declaration shall be considered null and void.\n\n{{ Articles 31 and 32 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/origin_processes","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"origin_processes","content":"## Article 14 - General requirements\n\n1. Products originating in Cameroon shall, on importation into the United Kingdom, benefit from the provisions of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement upon submission of either:\n\n   1. a movement certificate EUR.1, a specimen of which appears in Appendix 3; or\n\n   2. in the cases specified in Article 19(1), a declaration, hereinafter referred to as the 'invoice declaration', given by the exporter on an invoice, a delivery note or any other commercial document which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified. The text of the invoice declaration appears in Appendix 4.\n\n2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, originating products within the meaning of Part A of this Origin Reference Document shall, in the cases specified in Article 25, benefit from the provisions of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement without it being necessary to submit any of the documents referred to in that paragraph.\n\n\n\n## Article 15 - Procedure for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1\n\n1. A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities of Cameroon on application having been made in writing by the exporter or, under the exporter's responsibility, by the authorised representative of the exporter.\n\n2. For that purpose, the exporter or the authorised representative of the exporter shall fill out both the movement certificate EUR.1 and the application form, specimens of which appear in Appendix 3. Those forms shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document. If they are handwritten, they shall be completed in ink in printed characters. The description of the products shall be given in the box reserved for that purpose without leaving any blank lines. Where the box is not completely filled, a horizontal line shall be drawn below the last line of the description, the empty space being crossed through.\n\n3. The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of Cameroon, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n4. A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities of Cameroon if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6, and fulfil the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n5. The issuing customs authorities shall take any steps necessary to verify the originating status of the products and the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document. For that purpose they shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any other check considered appropriate. The issuing customs authorities shall also ensure that the forms referred to in paragraph 2 are duly completed. In particular, they shall check whether the space reserved for the description of the products has been completed in such a manner as to exclude all possibility of fraudulent additions.\n\n6. The date of issue of the movement certificate EUR.1 shall be indicated in box 11 of the certificate.\n\n7. A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities and made available to the exporter as soon as actual exportation has been effected or ensured.\n\n\n\n## Article 16 - Movement certificates EUR.1 issued retrospectively\n\n1. Notwithstanding Article 15(7), a movement certificate EUR.1 may exceptionally be issued after exportation of the products to which it relates if:\n\n   1. it was not issued at the time of exportation because of errors or involuntary omissions or special circumstances; or\n\n   2. it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that a movement certificate EUR.1 was issued but was not accepted at importation for technical reasons.\n\n2. For the implementation of paragraph 1, the exporter shall indicate in the application the place and date of exportation of the products to which the movement certificate EUR.1 relates, and state the reasons for that request.\n\n3. The customs authorities may issue a movement certificate EUR.1 retrospectively only after verifying that the information supplied in the exporter's application complies with that in the corresponding file.\n\n4. Movement certificates EUR.1 issued retrospectively shall be endorsed with the following phrase:\n\n    'ISSUED RETROSPECTIVELY'\n\n5. The endorsement referred to in paragraph 4 shall be inserted in box 7 of the movement certificate EUR.1.\n\n\n\n## Article 17 - Issue of a duplicate movement certificate EUR.1\n\n1. In the event of theft, loss or destruction of a movement certificate EUR.1, the exporter may apply to the customs authorities which issued it for a duplicate made out on the basis of the export documents in their possession.\n\n2. The duplicate issued in this way shall be endorsed with the following word:\n\n    'DUPLICATE'\n\n3. The endorsement referred to in paragraph 2 shall be inserted in box 7 of the duplicate movement certificate EUR.1.\n\n4. The duplicate, which shall bear the date of issue of the original movement certificate EUR.1, shall take effect as from that date.\n\n\n\n## Article 18 - Issue of movement certificates EUR.1 on the basis of a proof of origin issued or made out previously\n\nWhen originating products are placed under the control of a customs office in Cameroon or in the United Kingdom, it shall be possible to replace the original proof of origin by one or more movement certificates EUR.1 for the purpose of sending all or some of those products elsewhere within Cameroon or within the United Kingdom. The replacement movement certificate or certificates EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs office under whose control the products are placed.\n\n\n\n## Article 19 - Conditions for making out an invoice declaration\n\n1. An invoice declaration as referred to in point (b) of Article 14(1) may be made out:\n\n   1. by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 20; or\n\n   2. by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or more packages containing originating products whose total value does not exceed EUR 6 000.\n\n2. An invoice declaration may be made out if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6 and fulfil the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n3. The exporter making out an invoice declaration shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of Cameroon, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n4. An invoice declaration shall be made out by the exporter by typing, stamping or printing on the invoice, the delivery note or another commercial document the declaration the text of which appears in Appendix 4, using one of the linguistic versions set out in that Appendix and in accordance with the provisions of the domestic law of Cameroon. If the declaration is handwritten, it shall be written in ink in printed characters.\n\n5. Invoice declarations shall bear the original signature of the exporter in manuscript. However, an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 20 shall not be required to sign such declarations provided that he or she gives the customs authorities of Cameroon a written undertaking that he or she accepts full responsibility for any invoice declaration which identifies him or her as if it had been signed in manuscript by him or her.\n\n6. An invoice declaration may be made out by the exporter when the products to which it relates are exported, or after exportation on condition that it is presented in the United Kingdom no longer than two years after the importation of the products to which it relates.\n\n\n\n## Article 20 - Approved exporter\n\n1. The customs authorities of Cameroon may authorise any exporter who makes frequent shipments of products under the provisions of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement to make out invoice declarations irrespective of the value of the products concerned. An exporter seeking such authorisation shall offer to the satisfaction of the customs authorities all guarantees necessary to verify the originating status of the products as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n2. The customs authorities of Cameroon may grant the status of approved exporter subject to any conditions which they consider appropriate.\n\n3. The customs authorities of Cameroon shall grant to the approved exporter a customs authorisation number which shall appear on the invoice declaration.\n\n4. The customs authorities of Cameroon shall monitor the use of the authorisation by the approved exporter.\n\n5. The customs authorities of Cameroon may withdraw the authorisation at any time. They shall do so where the approved exporter no longer offers the guarantees referred to in paragraph 1, does not fulfil the conditions referred to in paragraph 2 or otherwise makes incorrect use of the authorisation.\n\n\n\n## Article 21 - Validity of proof of origin\n\n1. A proof of origin shall be valid for ten months from the date of issue in Cameroon and shall be submitted within that period to the customs authorities of the United Kingdom.\n\n2. Proofs of origin which are submitted to the customs authorities of the United Kingdom after the final date for presentation specified in paragraph 1 may be accepted for the purpose of applying preferential treatment where the failure to submit those documents by the final date set is due to exceptional circumstances.\n\n3. In other cases of belated presentation, the customs authorities of the United Kingdom may accept the proofs of origin where the products have been submitted before the final date.\n\n\n\n## Article 22 - Transit procedure\n\nWhen the products enter an eligible ACP State, a further period of validity of four months shall begin on the date on which the customs authorities in the country of transit enter the following in box 7 of the movement certificate EUR.1:\n\n- the word 'transit',\n\n- the name of the country of transit,\n\n- the official stamp, a specimen of which has already been made available to the United Kingdom, and\n\n- the date of the endorsements.\n\n\n\n## Article 23 - Submission of proof of origin\n\nProofs of origin shall be submitted to the customs authorities of the United Kingdom in accordance with its procedures. Those authorities may require a translation of a proof of origin and may also require the import declaration to be accompanied by a statement from the importer to the effect that the products meet the conditions required for the implementation of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement.\n\n\n\n## Article 24 - Importation by instalments\n\nWhere, at the request of the importer and on the conditions laid down by the customs authorities of the United Kingdom, dismantled or non-assembled products within the meaning of paragraph 2(a) of Part Two, Section 1, of the Tariff of the United Kingdom falling within Sections XVI and XVII or headings 7308 and 9406 of HS 1996 are imported by instalments, a single proof of origin for such products shall be submitted to the customs authorities upon importation of the first instalment.\n\n\n\n## Article 25 - Exemptions from proof of origin\n\n1. Products sent as small packages from private persons to private persons or forming part of travellers' personal luggage shall be admitted as originating products without requiring the submission of a proof of origin, provided that such products are not imported by way of trade and have been declared as meeting the requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document and where there is no doubt as to the veracity of such a declaration. In the case of products sent by post, that declaration can be made on the customs declaration CN22/CN23 or on a sheet of paper annexed to that document.\n\n2. Imports which are occasional and consist solely of products for the personal use of the recipients or travellers or their families shall not be considered as imports by way of trade if it is evident from the nature and quantity of the products that no commercial purpose is in view.\n\n3. Furthermore, the total value of those products shall not exceed EUR 500 in the case of small packages or EUR 1 200 in the case of products forming part of travellers' personal luggage.\n\n\n\n## Article 26 - Information procedure for cumulation purposes\n\n1. When Articles 6(1) and 6(4) are applied, evidence of the originating status within the meaning of:\n\n   1. Part A of this Origin Reference Document of the materials coming from eligible ACP States or South Africa; or\n\n   2. Part B of this Origin Reference Document of materials coming from the United Kingdom, the EU or the OCT,  shall be given by a movement certificate EUR.1 or by the supplier's declaration, a specimen of which is given in Appendix 5A, given by the exporter in the State or OCT from which the materials came.\n\n2. When Articles 6(2), 6(8), and 6(9) are applied, evidence of the working or processing carried out in eligible ACP States,  the United Kingdom, the EU, the OCT or South Africa shall be given by the supplier's declaration, a specimen of which appears in Appendix 5B, given by the exporter in the State or OCT from which the materials came.\n\n3. A separate supplier's declaration shall be given by the supplier for each consignment of material on the commercial invoice relating to that shipment or in an annex to that invoice, or on a delivery note or other commercial document relating to that shipment which describes the materials concerned in sufficient detail for them to be identified.\n\n4. The supplier's declaration may be made out on a pre-printed form.\n\n5. The suppliers' declarations shall be signed in manuscript. However, where the invoice and the supplier's declaration are established using electronic data-processing methods, the supplier's declaration need not be signed in manuscript provided the responsible official in the supplying company is identified to the satisfaction of the customs authorities in the State where the suppliers' declarations are drawn up. Those customs authorities may lay down conditions for the implementation of this paragraph.\n\n6. The suppliers' declarations shall be submitted to the competent customs office in Cameroon.\n\n\n\n## Article 27 - Supporting documents\n\nThe documents referred to in Articles 15(3) and 19(3) used for the purpose of proving that products covered by a movement certificate EUR.1 or an invoice declaration can be considered as products originating in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6 and fulfil the other requirements of Part A of this Origin Reference Document may consist inter alia of the following:\n\n- direct evidence of the processes carried out by the exporter or supplier to obtain the goods concerned, contained, for example, in the accounts or internal bookkeeping of the exporter or the supplier;\n\n- documents proving the originating status of materials used, issued or made out in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6, where those documents are used in accordance with domestic law;\n\n- documents proving the working or processing of materials in Cameroon, the eligible ACP States, the United Kingdom, the EU, the OCT or South Africa, issued or made out in Cameroon, an eligible ACP State, the United Kingdom, the EU, an OCT or South Africa, where those documents are used in accordance with domestic law;\n\n- movement certificates EUR.1 or invoice declarations proving the originating status of materials used, issued or made out in Cameroon or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6 and in accordance with Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n\n\n## Article 28 - Preservation of proof of origin and supporting documents\n\n1. The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 shall keep the documents referred to in Article 15(3) for at least three years.\n\n2. The exporter making out an invoice declaration shall keep a copy of that invoice declaration as well as the documents referred to in Article 19(3) for at least three years.\n\n3. The customs authorities of Cameroon issuing a movement certificate EUR.1 shall keep the application form referred to in Article 15(2) for at least three years.\n\n4. The customs authorities of the United Kingdom shall keep the movement certificates EUR.1 and the invoice declarations submitted to them for at least three years.\n\n\n\n## Article 29 - Discrepancies and formal errors\n\n1. The discovery of slight discrepancies between the statements made in the proof of origin and those made in the documents submitted to the customs office for the purpose of carrying out the formalities for importing the products shall not ipso facto render the proof of origin null and void if it is duly established that that document does correspond to the products submitted.\n\n2. Obvious formal errors such as typing errors on a proof of origin should not cause that document to be rejected if those errors are not such as to create doubts concerning the correctness of the statements made in that document.\n\n\n\n## Article 30 - Amounts expressed in euro\n\n1. For the application of Article 19(1)(b) and Article 25(3) in cases where products are invoiced in a currency other than euro, amounts in the national currencies of Cameroon, of the United Kingdom and of the other countries or territories referred to in Article 6 equivalent to the amounts expressed in euro shall be fixed annually by each of the countries concerned.\n\n2. A consignment shall benefit from the provisions of Article 19(1)(b) or Article 25(3) by reference to the currency in which the invoice is drawn up, according to the amount fixed by the country concerned.\n\n3. The amounts to be used in any given national currency shall be the equivalent in that currency of the amounts expressed in euro as on the first working day of October each year. The amounts shall be fixed by the country concerned by 15 October and shall apply from 1 January the following year.\n\n4. A country may round up or down the amount resulting from the conversion of an amount expressed in euro into the applicable currency. The rounded-off amount may not differ from the amount resulting from the conversion by more than 5 %. A country may retain unchanged its national currency equivalent of an amount expressed in euro if, at the time of the annual adjustment provided for in paragraph 3, the conversion of that amount, before any rounding-off, results in an increase of less than 15 % in the national currency equivalent. The national currency equivalent may be retained unchanged if the conversion would result in a decrease in that equivalent value.\n\n5. The amounts expressed in euro shall be reviewed by the EPA Committee. When carrying out that review, the EPA Committee shall consider the desirability of preserving the effects of the limits concerned in real terms. For that purpose, it may decide to modify the amounts expressed in euro.\n\n\n\n{{ Articles 14 to 30 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/wholly-obtained-vessels","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"wholly-obtained-vessels","content":"The terms 'its vessels' and 'its factory ships' in points (g) and (h) of paragraph 1 shall apply only to vessels and factory ships which:\n\n1. are registered in Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP State or a Member State of the EU;\n\n2. fly the flag of Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP State or a Member State of the EU; and\n\n3. meet one of the following conditions:\n\n   1. they are at least 50 % owned by nationals of Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP state or a Member State of the EU; or\n\n   2. they are owned by companies which:\n\n      1. have their head office and their main place of business in Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP state or a Member State of the EU, and\n\n      2. are at least 50 % owned by Cameroon, the United Kingdom, an eligible ACP state or a Member State of the EU, public entities of that State or nationals of that State.\n\nNotwithstanding paragraph 2, the United Kingdom shall, upon request by Cameroon, recognise vessels chartered or leased by Cameroon to undertake fisheries activities in its exclusive economic zone as 'its vessels' under the following conditions:\n\n1. that Cameroon offered the United Kingdom the opportunity to negotiate a fisheries agreement and the United Kingdom did not accept that offer; *and*\n\n2. that the charter or lease contract has been accepted by the United Kingdom as providing adequate opportunities for the development of the capacity of Cameroon to fish on its own account and in particular as conferring on Cameroon the responsibility for the nautical and commercial management of the vessel placed at its disposal for a significant period of time.\n\n{{ Article 3 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/cumulation-import","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"cumulation-import","content":"### Cumulation of origin\n\n1. Materials originating in the United Kingdom, the EU, the OCT or eligible ACP States shall be considered as materials originating in Cameroon when incorporated into a product obtained there. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing, provided they have undergone working or processing beyond that referred to in Article 5.\n\n2. Working and processing carried out in the United Kingdom, the EU, the OCT or eligible ACP States shall be considered as having been carried out in Cameroon when the materials undergo subsequent working or processing in Cameroon beyond that referred to in Article 5.\n\n3. In determining whether, for the purposes of paragraph 1, the products/materials originate:\n\n   1. in eligible ACP States, the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document shall apply mutatis mutandis;\n\n   2. in the United Kingdom, the OCT or the EU the provisions of Part B of this Origin Reference Document shall apply mutatis mutandis.\n\n4. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 10, materials originating in South Africa shall be considered as originating in Cameroon when incorporated into a product obtained there provided they have undergone working or processing beyond that referred to in Article 5. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing.\n\n5. Products which have acquired originating status by virtue of paragraph 4 shall continue to be considered as products originating in Cameroon only when the value added there exceeds the value of the materials used that originate in South Africa. If that is not so, the products concerned shall be considered as originating in South Africa. In the allocation of origin, no account shall be taken of materials originating in South Africa which have undergone sufficient working or processing in Cameroon.\n\n6. The cumulation provided for in paragraph 4 shall not apply to the products listed in Appendices 7 and 10.\n\n7. The cumulation provided for in paragraph 4 shall apply to the products listed in Appendix 8 only when the United Kingdom tariffs on those products have been eliminated on imports from South Africa. The United Kingdom shall publish the date on which the conditions of this paragraph have been fulfilled on the gov.uk website.\n\n8. Without prejudice to paragraphs 6 and 7, working and processing carried out in South Africa shall be considered as having been carried out in another Member State of the South African Customs Union (SACU), being an eligible ACP State, when the materials undergo subsequent working or processing in that other Member State of the SACU.\n\n9. Without prejudice to paragraphs 6 and 7 and at the request of Cameroon, working and processing carried out in South Africa shall be considered as having been carried out in Cameroon or in an eligible ACP State when the materials undergo subsequent working or processing in Cameroon or in an eligible ACP State within the context of a regional economic integration agreement.\n\n10. The request shall be submitted by Cameroon to the United Kingdom, which shall take a decision on the request in accordance with its internal procedures.\n\n11. The cumulation provided for in paragraph 4 may be applied only where the South African materials used have acquired the status of originating products through the application of rules of origin identical to those set out in Part A of this Origin Reference Document. The cumulation provided for in paragraphs 8 and 9 may be applied only through the application of rules of origin identical to those set out in Part A of this Origin Reference Document.\n\n12. At the request of Cameroon, materials originating in a neighbouring developing country, other than an eligible ACP State, belonging to a coherent geographical entity, shall be considered as materials originating in Cameroon when incorporated into a product obtained there. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing, provided that:\n\n    1.  the working or processing carried out in Cameroon exceeds the operations listed in Article 5, and\n\n    2.  Cameroon, the United Kingdom and the other countries concerned have concluded an agreement on adequate administrative procedures which will ensure correct implementation of this paragraph.\n\n    This paragraph shall not apply to tuna products classified under Chapter 3 or 16 and to rice products under tariff heading 1006.\nFor the purpose of determining whether products originate in a neighbouring developing country, the provisions of Part A of this Origin Reference Document shall apply.\nRequests shall be submitted by Cameroon to the United Kingdom, which shall take a decision on the request in accordance with its internal procedures. Such decisions shall also identify the products for which cumulation provided for under this paragraph may not be permitted.\n\n{{ Article 6 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/insufficient-processing","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"insufficient-processing","content":"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 4 are satisfied:\n\n1. preserving operations to ensure that the products remain 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);\n\n2. simple operations consisting of the removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting up;\n\n3. changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of packages;\n\n4. simple placing in bottles, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards, etc., and all other simple packaging operations;\n\n5. affixing marks, labels and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;\n\n6. simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds; mixing of sugar with any other material;\n\n7. simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product;\n\n8. a combination of two or more of the operations specified in points (a) to (g);\n\n9. slaughter of animals;\n\n10. husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing and glazing of cereals and rice;\n\n11. operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps; partial or total milling of sugar;\n\n12. peeling, stoning and shelling of fruits, nuts and vegetables.\n\nAll the operations carried out in either Cameroon or the United Kingdom on a given product shall be considered together when determining whether the working or processing undergone by that product is to be regarded as insufficient.\n\n{{ Article 5 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/originating_import","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"originating_import","content":"# Is the Cameroon agreement a Unilateral agreement only? #\nFor the purposes of the United Kingdom-Cameroon Agreement, the following products shall be considered as originating in Cameroon:\n\n- products **wholly obtained** in Cameroon *or*\n\n- products obtained in Cameroon incorporating materials which have not been wholly obtained there, provided that such materials have undergone **sufficient working or processing** in Cameroon.\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/wholly-obtained","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"wholly-obtained","content":"The following shall be considered as wholly obtained in Cameroon:\n\n1. **mineral products** extracted from its soil or from its seabed;\n\n2. **vegetable products** harvested there;\n\n3. **live animals** born and raised there;\n\n4. **products from live animals** raised there;\n\n5. products obtained by **hunting or fishing** conducted there;\n\n6. products of **aquaculture**, including mariculture, where the fish are born and raised there;\n\n7. products of **sea fishing and other products** taken from the sea outside its territorial waters by its vessels;\n\n8. products made aboard its **factory ships** exclusively from products referred to in point (g);\n\n9. used articles collected there fit only for the recovery of **raw materials**, including used tyres fit only for retreading or for use as waste;\n\n10. **waste and scrap** resulting from manufacturing operations conducted there;\n\n11. products extracted from **marine soil or subsoil** outside its territorial waters provided that it has sole rights to work that soil or subsoil;\n\n12. goods produced there exclusively from the products specified in points (a) to (k).\n\n{{ Article 3 }}\n"}},{"id":"cameroon/tolerances","type":"rules_of_origin_article","attributes":{"article":"tolerances","content":"### Tolerances\n"}},{"id":"356c098b2e98412badd949241f1dc6ff","type":"rules_of_origin_v2_rule","attributes":{"rule":"Manufacture in which:\n\n- all the fruit and nuts used must be wholly obtained\n\n- the value of any materials of [chapter\u0026nbsp;17](/chapters/17) used does not exceed **30%** of the value of the ex-works price of the product.","rule_class":["MAXNOM"],"operator":null,"footnotes":[]}},{"id":"022a1104f9158730d6a4e52ae9e34f7e","type":"rules_of_origin_rule_set","attributes":{"heading":"Chapter 8","subdivision":"Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruits or melons"},"relationships":{"rules":{"data":[{"id":"356c098b2e98412badd949241f1dc6ff","type":"rules_of_origin_v2_rule"}]}}},{"id":"2fa450221986f8498c48143212d11a5b","type":"rules_of_origin_v2_rule","attributes":{"rule":"Manufacture in which all the materials of [chapter\u0026nbsp;8](/chapters/08) used are wholly obtained, in accordance with Appendix 2A of the Origin Reference Document.","rule_class":["WO"],"operator":null,"footnotes":[]}},{"id":"71b649883e60f9f6e189b26584ec1ba9","type":"rules_of_origin_rule_set","attributes":{"heading":"Chapter 8","subdivision":"Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruits or melons, with a content of materials of Chapter 17 not more than 20% by weight."},"relationships":{"rules":{"data":[{"id":"2fa450221986f8498c48143212d11a5b","type":"rules_of_origin_v2_rule"}]}}},{"id":"a17c186e9300d495c391bcbe9b941844","type":"rules_of_origin_origin_reference_document","attributes":{"ord_title":"The Cameroon Origin Reference Document","ord_version":"1.3","ord_date":"28 December 2021","ord_original":"211223_Cameroon_ORD__HS_UPDATE__.odt"}}]}