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Restrictiveness Index for Preferential Rules of Origin

Supplement to Research Report

Restrictiveness Index for Preferential Rules of Origin, a supplement to the research report, Rules of Origin under the Australia - New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement, was released on 2 September 2004 in conjuction with another supplement, Industry assistance in Australia and New Zealand under the CER Agreement.

CONTENTS


Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Abbreviations, Key Points

1   Introduction
1.1   Background
1.2   Structure of the paper

2   Index methodology
2.1   Index structure and restrictiveness ranking
2.2   Information sources

3   Calculating the index
3.1   Primary criteria
3.2   Supplementary criteria
3.3   Other effects of RoO

4   Results
4.1   PTAs associated with the Americas
4.2   European-based PTAs
4.3   PTAs in the Asia - Pacific region
4.4   Weighted index
4.5   Summing up

A   Index details

References

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