The rules of origin are the laws, systems and administrative regulations which are applied by a member to determine the country of origin, provided that the rules of origins have no relations with contracting or independent system which grant tariff preferential treatments.

The rules of origin include all the used rules of origin such as preferential political trade tools and non-preferential trade policy tools.

The origin of commodity: It is the place or country where commodity is produced or the last produced or where an essential change happened. Commodities from Egyptian origin are considered Egyptian in the following cases:

a- The products obtained completely from Egypt.

b- The products obtained from Egypt but their components are not originally Egyptian, provided that the local value added is not less than 40% (Arab), 50% (European) and 60% (Islamic) in accordance with the different agreements.

c- Process or transforming is not enough to grant the quality of origin whether the tariff item of the product is changed or not:-
1- The necessary measures for keeping commodities in good condition during transportation or storage such as (ventilation, drying, freezing, salting and preserving).
2- Simple operations which include garbling, cleaning up, sorting out, labeling, coordinating, washing, colouring, cutting, packing and parceling.
3- Simple operations for packing in bottles, flasks, bags, boxes and simple operations packaging .
4- Putting Trademarks or data or other similar marks on products or on the cover.
5- Simple mixing operations for products even if they are from different kind.
6- Simple collection of commodities parts to produce afinal product.
7- Combining two operations or more from (A) TO (Z).
8- Slaughtering animals.