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    (C) A good of chapters 30, 31, 33 or 39 shall be treated as an originating good if the deliberate and controlled modification in particle size of the good, including micronizing by dissolving a polymer and subsequent precipitation, other than by merely crushing or pressing, resulting in a good having a defined particle size, defined particle size distribution or defined surface area, which is relevant to the purposes of the resulting good and having different essential physical or chemical characteristics from the input materials, occurs in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both.

    (D) A good of chapters 28 through 38 shall be treated as an originating good if the production of standards materials occurs in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both. For the purposes of this subdivision, “standards materials”      (including standard solutions) are preparations suitable for analytical, calibrating or referencing uses, having precise degrees of purity or proportions that are certified by the manufacturer.

    (E) A good of chapters 28 through 39 shall be treated as an originating good if the isolation or separation of isomers from mixtures of isomers occurs in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both.

    (F) A good of chapters 28 through 38 that undergoes a change from one classification to another in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both, as a result of the separation of one or more materials from a man-made mixture shall not be treated as an originating good unless the isolated material underwent a chemical reaction in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both.

  (o) Product-specific rules

Chapter 1.

1. A change to headings 0101 through 0106 from any other chapter.

Chapter 2.

1. A change to headings 0201 through 0210 from any other chapter, except from fowls of the species Gallus domesticus (chickens) of heading 0105.

Chapter 3.

Chapter rule 1: Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates shall be deemed originating even if they were cultivated from nonoriginating fry (immature fish at a post-larval stage, including fingerlings, parr, smolts and elvers) or larvae.

1. A change to headings 0301 through 0305 from any other chapter.

2. (A) A change to smoked goods of headings 0306 through 0308 from goods that are not smoked of headings 0306 through 0308 or from any other chapter; or

  (B) A change to any other good of headings 0306 through 0308 from any other chapter.

Chapter 4.

1. A change to headings 0401 through 0410 from any other chapter, except from subheadings 1901.90 and 2106.90.

Chapter 5.

1. A change to headings 0501 through 0511 from any other chapter.

Chapter 6.

1. A change to headings 0601 through 0604 from any other chapter.

Chapter 7.

1. A change to headings 0701 through 0714 from any other chapter. 

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Chapter 8.

1. A change to headings 0801 through 0814 from any other chapter.

Chapter 9.

1. A change to subheadings 0901.11 through 0901.12 from any other chapter.

2. A change to subheading 0901.21 from any other subheading.

3. A change to subheading 0901.22 from any other subheading, except from subheading 0901.21.

4. A change to subheading 0901.90 from any other chapter.

5. A change to headings 0902 through 0903 from any other chapter.

6. A change to crushed, ground or powdered spices of subheadings 0904.11 through 0904.12 from spices that are not crushed, ground or powdered of subheadings 0904.11 through 0904.12, or from any other subheading; or

7. A change to mixtures of spices or any good of subheadings 0904.11 through 0904.12 other than crushed, ground, or powdered spices from any other subheading.

8. A change to subheadings 0904.21 through 0904.22 from any other chapter.

9. A change to subheadings 0905.10 through 0909.62 from any other subheading.

10. A change to subheadings 0910.11 through 0910.12 from any other chapter.

11. (A) A change to crushed, ground or powdered spices of subheadings 0910.20 through 0910.99 from spices that are not crushed, ground, or powdered of subheadings 0910.20 through 0910.99, or from any other subheading; or

  (B) A change to mixtures of spices or any good of subheadings 0910.20 through 0910.99 other than crushed, ground or powdered spices from any other subheading.

Chapter 10.

1. A change to headings 1001 through 1008 from any other chapter.

Chapter 11.

1. A change to heading 1101 from any other chapter.

2. A change to headings 1102 through 1104 from any other chapter, except from heading 1006.

3. A change to heading 1105 from any other chapter, except from heading 0701.

4. A change to headings 1106 through 1109 from any other chapter.

Chapter 12.

1. A change to headings 1201 through 1214 from any other chapter.

Chapter 13.

1. A change to heading 1301 from any other chapter.

2. A change to subheadings 1302.11 through 1302.13 from any other chapter. 

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3. A change to subheading 1302.19 from any other chapter, except from subheading 1211.20.

4. A change to subheadings 1302.20 through 1302.32 from any other chapter.

5. (A) A change to carrageenan of subheading 1302.39 from within that subheading or any other chapter, provided the nonoriginating materials of subheading 1302.39 do not exceed 50 percent by weight of the good;

  (B) A change to any other good of subheading 1302.39 from any other chapter.

Chapter 14.

1. A change to headings 1401 through 1404 from any other chapter.

Chapter 15.

1. A change to headings 1501 through 1518 from any other chapter.

2. A change to heading 1520 from any other heading.

3. A change to headings 1521 through 1522 from any other chapter.

Chapter 16 .

1. A change to headings 1601 through 1603 from any other chapter.

2. A change to subheadings 1604.11 through 1604.13 from any other chapter.

3. A change to subheading 1604.14 from any other chapter, except from chapter 3.

4. A change to subheadings 1604.14 through 1604.32 from any other chapter.

5. A change to heading 1605 from any other chapter.

Chapter 17.

1. A change to headings 1701 through 1703 from any other chapter.

2. A change to heading 1704 from any other heading.

Chapter 18.

1. A change to headings 1801 through 1802 from any other chapter.

2. A change to headings 1803 through 1805 from any other heading.

3. A change to subheading 1806.10 from any other heading, provided that such goods of 1806.10 containing 90 percent or more by dry weight of sugar do not contain nonoriginating sugar of chapter 17 and that goods of 1806.10 containing less than 90 percent by dry weight of sugar do not contain more than 35 percent by weight of non-originating sugar of chapter 17.

4. A change to subheading 1806.20 from any other heading.

5. A change to subheadings 1806.31 through 1806.90 from any other subheading.

Chapter 19.

1. A change to subheading 1901.10 from any other chapter, except from heading 1006, and rice products of subheadings 1102.90, 1103.19,   1103.20, 1104.19, 1104.29 and 1104.30, and provided that goods of subheading 1901.10 containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids do not contain nonoriginating dairy goods of chapter 4. 

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2. A change to subheading 1901.20 from any other chapter, except from heading 1006, and rice products of subheadings 1102.90, 1103.19,   1103.20, 1104.19, 1104.29 and 1104.30, and provided that goods of 1901.20 containing over 25 percent by weight of butterfat, not put up for retail sale, do not contain non-originating dairy goods of chapter 4.

3. A change to subheading 1901.90 from any other chapter, except from heading 1006, and rice products of subheadings 1102.90, 1103.19,   1103.20, 1104.19, 1104.29 and 1104.30, and provided that goods of 1901.90 containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids do not contain non-originating dairy goods of chapter 4.

4. A change to headings 1902 through subheading 1904.30 from any other chapter.

5. A change to subheading 1904.90 from any other chapter, except from heading 1006.

6. A change to heading 1905 from any other chapter.

Chapter 20.

Chapter rule 1: Fruit, nut and vegetable preparations of headings 2001 through 2008 that have been prepared or preserved by freezing, by packing (including canning) in water, brine or natural juices or by roasting, either dry or in oil (including processing incidental to freezing, packing or roasting) shall be treated as originating only if the fresh good were wholly obtained or produced entirely in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both. Furthermore, fruit preparations of heading 2008 that contain peaches, pears or apricots, either alone or mixed with other fruits, shall be treated as originating only if the peaches, pears, or apricots were wholly obtained or produced entirely in the territory of Korea or of the United States, or both.

1. A change to headings 2001 through 2007 from any other chapter, except as provided for in chapter rule 1 for chapter 20 and except from heading 0701.

2. A change to subheading 2008.11 from any other chapter, except from heading 1202.

3. A change to subheadings 2008.19 through 2008.99 from any other chapter, except as provided for in chapter rule 1 for chapter 20.

4. A change to subheadings 2009.11 through 2009.39 from any other chapter, except from heading 0805.

5. A change to subheadings 2009.41 through 2009.89 from any other chapter.

6. (A) A change to subheading 2009.90 from any other chapter; or

  (B) A change to cranberry juice mixtures of subheading 2009.90 from any other subheading within chapter 20, except from subheadings    2009.11 through 2009.39 or from subheading 2009.81, whether or not there is also a change from any other chapter, provided there is a regional value content of not less than:

   (1) 35 percent under the build-up method, or

   (2) 45 percent under the build-down method; or

  (C) A change to any other good of subheading 2009.90 from any other subheading within chapter 20, whether or not there is also a change from any other chapter, provided that a single juice ingredient, or juice ingredients from a single country other than Korea or the United States, constitute in single strength form not more than 60 percent by volume of the good.

Chapter 21.

1. A change to headings 2101 through 2102 from any other chapter.

2. A change to subheading 2103.10 from any other chapter.

3. A change to subheading 2103.20 from any other chapter, provided that tomato ketchup of heading 2103.20 does not contain nonoriginating goods from subheading 2002.90.

4. A change to subheading 2103.30 from any other chapter. 

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5. A change to subheading 2103.90 from any other heading.

6. A change to heading 2104 from any other chapter.

7. A change to heading 2105 from any other heading, except from headings 0401 through 0405 and from dairy preparations containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids of subheading 1901.90.

8. (A) A change to concentrated juice of any single fruit or vegetable fortified with vitamins or minerals of subheading 2106.90 from any other chapter, except from headings 0805 or 2009 or subheading 2202.90.

  (B) A change to mixtures of juices fortified with vitamins or minerals of subheading 2106.90:

   (1) from any other chapter, except from headings 0805 or 2009 or from mixtures of juices of subheading 2202.90; or

   (2) from any other subheading within chapter 21, heading 2009 or from mixtures of juices of subheading 2202.90, whether or not there is also a change from any other chapter, provided that the juice of a single fruit or vegetable, or juice ingredients from a single country other than Korea or the United States, constitute in single strength form not more than 60 percent by volume of the good;.

  (C) A change to compound alcoholic preparations of subheading 2106.90 from any other subheading, except from headings 2203 through 2209;

  (D) A change to sugar syrups of subheading 2106.90 from any other chapter, except from chapter 17;

  (E) A change to goods containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids of subheading 2106.90 from any other chapter, except from chapter 4, or from dairy preparations containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids of subheading 1901.90;

  (F) A change to fruit packed in gelatin containing more than 20 percent by weight of fruit of subheading 2106.90 from any other chapter, except from chapter 20; or

  (G) A change to ginseng preparations of subheading 2106.90 from any other heading, except from subheadings 1211.20 and 1302.19.

9. A change to any other good of heading 2106 from any other chapter.

Chapter 22.

1. A change to heading 2201 from any other chapter.

2. A change to subheading 2202.10 from any other chapter.

3. (A) A change to juice of any single fruit or vegetable fortified with vitamins or minerals of subheading 2202.90 from any other chapter, except from headings 0805 or 2009, or from juice concentrates of subheading 2106.90;

  (B) A change to mixtures of juices fortified with vitamins or minerals of subheading 2202.90:

   (1) from any other chapter, except from headings 0805 or 2009 or from mixtures of juices of subheading 2106.90; or

   (2) from any other subheading within chapter 22, heading 2009 or from mixtures of juices of subheading 2106.90, whether or not there is also a change from any other chapter, provided that the juice of a single fruit or vegetable, or juice ingredients from     Korea or the United States, constitute in single strength form not more than 60 percent by volume of the good;

  (C) A change to beverages containing milk of subheading 2202.90 from any other chapter, except from chapter 4 or from dairy preparations containing over 10 percent by weight of milk solids of subheading 1901.90; or

  (D) A change to ginseng preparations of subheading 2202.90 from any other heading, except from subheadings 1211.20 and 1302.19.

4. A change to any other good of subheading 2202.90 from any other chapter.