Packing Materials and Containers. 1. Packing materials and containers used for the transport of goods shall not be taken into account in determining the origin of the goods. 2. Packaging materials and containers in which a good is packaged for retail sale shall, if classified with the good, be disregarded in determining whether all the non-originating materials used in the production of the good undergo the applicable change in tariff classification in the product specific rules of origin. However, if the good is subject to a regional value content requirement, the value of the packaging materials and containers used for retail sale shall be taken into account as originating materials or non-originating materials as the case may be when determining the origin of the good.
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