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broad guidelines of general application as well as detailed
standards, practices, and procedures;

(h) good means any merchandise, product, article, or
material;

(i) issuing body means an entity designated or authorised by
a Party to issue a Certificate of Origin and notified to the
other Parties in accordance with this Chapter;

(j) material means a good that is used in the production of
another good;

(k) non-originating good or non-originating material
means a good or material which does not qualify as
originating in accordance with this Chapter;

(l) originating good or originating material means a good
or material which qualifies as originating in accordance
with this Chapter;

(m) producer means a person who engages in the production
of goods; and

(n) production means methods of obtaining goods including
growing, mining, harvesting, farming, raising, breeding,
extracting, gathering, collecting, capturing, fishing,
aquaculture, trapping, hunting, manufacturing, producing,
processing, or assembling.

Article 3.2: Originating Goods

For the purposes of this Agreement, a good shall be treated as an
originating good if it is:

(a) wholly obtained or produced in a Party as provided in
Article 3.3 (Goods Wholly Obtained or Produced);

(b) produced in a Party exclusively from originating materials
from one or more of the Parties; or

(c) produced in a Party using non-originating materials,
provided the good satisfies the applicable requirements set
out in Annex 3A (Product-Specific Rules),

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