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broad guidelines of general application as well as detailed and meets all other applicable requirements of this Chapter.
standards, practices, and procedures;

(h) good means any merchandise, product, article, or Article 3.3: Goods Wholly Obtained or Produced
material;
For the purposes of Article 3.2 (Originating Goods), the following goods
(i) issuing body means an entity designated or authorised by shall be considered as wholly obtained or produced in a Party:
a Party to issue a Certificate of Origin and notified to the
other Parties in accordance with this Chapter; (a) plants and plant goods, including fruit, flowers, vegetables,
trees, seaweed, fungi, and live plants, grown and
(j) material means a good that is used in the production of harvested, picked, or gathered there;
another good;
(b) live animals born and raised there;
(k) non-originating good or non-originating material
means a good or material which does not qualify as (c) goods obtained from live animals raised there;
originating in accordance with this Chapter;
(d) goods obtained by hunting, trapping, fishing, farming,
(l) originating good or originating material means a good aquaculture, gathering, or capturing conducted there;
or material which qualifies as originating in accordance
with this Chapter; (e) minerals and other naturally occurring substances, not
included in subparagraphs (a) through (d), extracted or
(m) producer means a person who engages in the production taken from its soil, waters, seabed, or subsoil beneath the
of goods; and seabed;

(n) production means methods of obtaining goods including (f) goods of sea-fishing and other marine life taken by vessels
growing, mining, harvesting, farming, raising, breeding, of that Party , and other goods taken by that Party or a
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extracting, gathering, collecting, capturing, fishing, person of that Party, from the waters, seabed, or subsoil
aquaculture, trapping, hunting, manufacturing, producing, beneath the seabed outside the territorial sea of the Parties
processing, or assembling. and non-Parties, in accordance with international law,
provided that, in case of goods of sea-fishing and other
marine life taken from the exclusive economic zone of any
Article 3.2: Originating Goods Party or non-Party, that Party or person of that Party has

For the purposes of this Agreement, a good shall be treated as an 1
For the purposes of this Article, “factory ships of that Party” or “vessels of that Party”
originating good if it is: respectively, means factory ships or vessels:

(a) wholly obtained or produced in a Party as provided in (a) which are registered in that Party; and
Article 3.3 (Goods Wholly Obtained or Produced);
(b) which are entitled to fly the flag of that Party.
(b) produced in a Party exclusively from originating materials Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any factory ship or vessel operating within
from one or more of the Parties; or the exclusive economic zone of Australia that meets the definition of “Australian boat”
under the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Commonwealth), as amended from time
(c) produced in a Party using non-originating materials, to time, or any successor legislation, shall be considered to be a factory ship or vessel
provided the good satisfies the applicable requirements set of Australia respectively. For greater certainty, when such a factory ship or vessel is
operating outside of the exclusive economic zone of Australia, the requirements of
out in Annex 3A (Product-Specific Rules), subparagraphs (a) and (b) of this footnote shall apply.

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