Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

4.   Goods to be treated as grown produced or manufactured within Caribbean community market area or common market area

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   (1)   Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, goods shall be treated as having been the produce of, or having been manufactured in the Caribbean Community Market area or the Common Market area, if—

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      (a)     they and the materials from which they been produced or manufactured have been wholly grown, produced or manufactured, as the case may be, in the Caribbean Community Market area, or, as the case may be, in the Common Market area; or

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      (b)     they have undergone any operation or process of production or manufacture in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area and the value of materials imported into either such area and used in the production or manufacture of the goods does not exceed 50% of the export price of those goods.

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   (2)   For the purpose of either paragraph of subregulation (1), in ascertaining whether goods have undergone any operation or process of production or manufacture in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area, no account shall be taken of any of the following—

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      (a)     packing, wheresoever the materials used in the operation or process have been grown, produced or manufactured;

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      (b)     splitting up into lots;

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      (c)     sorting or grading;

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      (d)     marking;

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      (e)     putting up into sets.

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   (3)   The goods envisaged by subregulation (1) as satisfying the requirements set out in paragraph (a) of that paragraph are considered to include the following—

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      (a)     minerals extracted from the ground within the Caribbean Community Market area, or, as the case may be, the Common Market area;

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      (b)     vegetable products harvested within the Caribbean Community Market area, or as the case may be, the Common Market area;

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      (c)     live animals born and raised within the Caribbean Community Market area, or as the case may be, the Common Market area;

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      (d)     products obtained within the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area from live animals;

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      (e)     products obtained by hunting or fishing conducted within the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area;

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      (f)     marine products taken from the sea by a vessel belonging to an Community Territory or, as the case may be, a Common Market State;

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      (g)     used articles of any description, being such articles collected and last used as articles of that description in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area an in a state fit only for the recovery of material therefrom;

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      (h)     scrap or waste resulting from the carrying on in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area of any operation or process of manufacture;

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      (i)     goods produced or manufactured in the Association area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area exclusively from materials as respects which had they been imported into Saint Lucia in the state in which they were used as such materials, the requirements set out in subregulation (1)(a) would by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph be deemed to have been fulfilled.