Sentences with phrase «substantial transformation»

The latter half of the definition — substantial transformation of a product — leaves rules of origin open to interpretation, however.

While the required policies would represent substantial transformations in energy policy, investment patterns and governance systems, they are well within reach.

Before the Made in Canada claim can be used on a food product, the last substantial transformation on the product must have occurred in Canada.

This reflects the large role of re-exported goods originating in other countries (or originating in one NAFTA partner, arriving in the United States, and then returned or re-exported to the other partner without substantial transformation).

The WTO generally defines a product's origin as the place where it was wholly sourced or the country where the «last substantial transformation took place.»

In addition, the United States proposed to end tariff - shifting, a new name for the longstanding practice of changing the treatment of a product through substantial transformation that results in a change in the tariff classification of an item.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross wrote an article in the Washington Post on September 21 in which he sharply criticized substantial transformation as a flaw in the NAFTA rule of origin.

Another reason is that the rules include a concept called substantial transformation, which means that if further processing of a non-NAFTA item is done by a NAFTA partner, the non-NAFTA items are «transformed» and are deemed to have been produced in the United States, Canada or Mexico.

Even restraining warming to just 3 degrees C would require substantial transformation.

U.S. statistics count goods coming into the U.S. customs territory from third countries and being exported to our trading partners, without substantial transformation, as exports from the United States.

Even outside specific trade agreements, the World Trade Organization (WTO) defines a product's origin as the place where the «last substantial transformation took place.»

While observers may disagree as to whether Air Canada's sad condition is terminal or just chronic, on one point there is unanimity: the airline needs to undergo a substantial transformation of its business model to return to full health.

The substantial transformation rule has been a part of U.S. trade policy since the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade came into effect in 1948.

It addresses the complexities of the system, including whether a food is a «priority food», the meaning of «substantial transformation», and changes to the definition of «Made in Australia».

There are no hassles to deal with such as faced by an Australian company being required to prove «substantial transformation» of its product in Australia to be eligible to identify the Australian - ness by a kangaroo on pack.

if «Made in New Zealand» appears on a jar of jam, this means that the substantial transformation of the jam took place in New Zealand — i.e. the raw ingredients (e.g. fruit, sugar) were cooked together in New Zealand to make the jam.

Sure, Doctor Strange's journey is a little more complex and he undergoes some substantial transformations, but we see his astral form move through the multiverse, where Ant - Man enters the microverse physically.

Within a week, most clients notice a substantial transformation in their dog's behaviour.

Most phases of the beautiful renewal are already complete, and the hotel has undergone a substantial transformation, with only the final guest rooms left to finish.

This substantial transformation of the landscape at Laguna Gloria will improve the riparian community along the Colorado River and provide habitat to wide - ranging wildlife, contributing to the health of the urban environment in Austin.

But by 2005, when the artist moved to Trinidad, his art had undergone a substantial transformation — a transformation for the better.

For the «assembly» claim to be valid, the product's last «substantial transformation» also should have occurred in the U.S.. That's why a «screwdriver» assembly in the U.S. of foreign components into a final product at the end of the manufacturing process doesn't usually qualify for the «Assembled in USA» claim.

Via a process of substantial transformation, EU companies can «add value» to European products imported to Canada, which can then be traded, tariff - free, with the U.S. under NAFTA and / or the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

The author of these works goes to some effort to build a case for this substantial transformation in his prefaces and notices in the derived work as well.

So I take an insubstantial three pixels from a Mario Sprite, and I make a substantial transformation on the cropped pixels.