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Preferential Rules of Origin (ROO) play an important role in determining the eligibility of preferential treatment provided by FTA/EPAs, but there has been little multilateral discipline on the preferential ROO. WTO has started the harmonization work programme of non-preferential ROO (HWP) in 1995 for establishing harmonized non-preferential ROO (HRO), resulting in compiling the draft HRO (the Consolidated Text). This paper studies the development of the preferential ROO, their diversity and any move to convergence by analyzing the preferential ROO of the FTA/EPAs of Japan and other major FTA/EPA players in comparison with the Consolidated Text.The purpose of the study reveals any influence of the HWP on the development of the preferential ROO. |
