Rule 2 - Definitions. - Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of Goods Under the Preferential Trade Agreement Between the Governments of the Republic of India and Malaysia) Rules, 2011

2. Definitions.- (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) carrier means any vehicle for transportation by air, sea and land; (b) CIF value means the price actually paid or payable to the exporter for goods including the cost of the goods, insurance, and freight necessary to deliver the goods to the named port of destination and the valuation shall be made in accordance with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Implementation of rule VII of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1994; (c) FOB value means the price actually paid or payable to the exporter for goods when the goods are loaded onto the carrier at the named port of exportation, including the cost of the goods and all costs necessary to bring the goods onto the carrier and the valuation shall be made in accordance with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Implementation of rule VII of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1994; (d) goods means any merchandise, product, article or material; (e) Harmonised system means the nomenclature of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System defined in the International Convention on the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System including all legal notes thereto, as adopted and implemented by the State parties in their respective tariff laws; (f) identical and interchangeable materials means materials being of the same kind and commercial quality, possessing the same technical and physical characteristics, and which, once they are incorporated into the finished goods cannot be distinguished from one another for origin purposes by virtue of any markings, et cetera ; (g) materials means ingredients, raw materials, parts, components, sub-assemblies or goods that are used in the production of other goods or are physically incorporated into other goods; (h) originating goods means goods that qualify as originating in accordance with the provisions of rule 3; (i) Parties means the Governments of the Republic of India and Malaysia collectively; (j) Party means the Governments of the Republic of India or Malaysia as the case may be; (k) Product specific rules means rules which specify that the materials have undergone a change in tariff classification or a specific manufacturing or processing operation, or satisfy qualifying value content criterion, or a combination of any of these criteria, as provided in Annexure-I to these rules; and, (l) production means a method of obtaining goods including growing, planting, mining, harvesting, raising, breeding, extracting, gathering, collecting, capturing, fishing, trapping, hunting, manufacturing, producing, processing, assembling or disassembling the goods.