Certification of Origin of Goods Exported to a Free Trade Partner Regulations

2 For the purposes of subsection 97.1(1) of the Act, where the exporter of goods to a free trade partner, for which preferential tariff treatment under a free trade agreement will be claimed in accordance with the laws of that free trade partner, is not the producer of the goods, the certificate shall be completed and signed by the exporter on the basis of the following criteria:

• (a) the exporter’s knowledge that the goods meet the applicable rules of origin;

• (b) the exporter’s reasonable reliance on the written representation of the producer that the goods meet the applicable rules of origin; or

• (c) in the case of goods exported or to be exported from Canada to a NAFTA country, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Jordan, Panama or Honduras, a certificate — completed and signed by the producer and provided voluntarily to the exporter — stating that the goods meet the applicable rules of origin.