자유무역협정과 수산물 원산지판정기준의 문제점과 해결방안 - 한ㆍ칠레 FTA와 한ㆍ싱가폴 FTA를 중심으로

Free Trade Agreement and the Settlement of Problems on Criterion of Origin for Fish and Fishery Products

  An internationally Harmonized Rules of Origin has not been yet built. It means each member countries could make out their own Rules of Origin on Free Trade Agreement(FTA). The Tariff Shift Rules have been employed as a criterion for determining the country of Origin in the most of FTA as well as NAFTA and WTO Harmonized Work Program. Although the Tariff Shift Rules are said to be clearly fit for determining the country of Origin, they are not wholly fit in case of fish and fishery products which have inherent characteristics as the primary industries.   Every FTA aims to create maximum trade benefit for the member countries, providing Rules of Origin as commercial policy instruments for preventing the benefit from flowing out. But because in most of FTA the countries have different characteristics by industries, especially fisheries, we need to take a more flexible response to the FTA in fish and fishery products. And it is necessary that more considerable Origin criterions should be applied for fish and fishery products in each FTA.