"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 14:04:17 on Sun, 5 Feb 2017,
tim... remarked:

"country of origin" rules for "supply chain" industries (Automotive
being the most important example)

My understanding is that's a Single Market thing, not CU.

Then your understanding is wrong

I don't think so. The kind of rules you refer to are presumably "if it
meets EU standards in one country, it will in another".

OK

these rules aren't about functionality

they are about the difficult of classifying the origin of a car built in the
UK from components sourced partly in the UK, party from rEU and partly from
ROW.

E.g. (from inside the CU, outside the EU) if, you apply the (EU) external
tariff on the ROW components when you build the car, you don't have to
charge it again on the percentage of the total value of the car that
component represnets, when you export the car to rEU (or something like
that).

keeping a track of the country of origin, and the import duty paid for each
of the thousands of parts in the car is what the Automotive industry wants
to avoid, and what they claim will cost them 1500 per car to do (that
figure's got to be a bull**** high figure, but that it might cost 100s is
clear).

Post-your=Brexit there's nothing to ensure that while the customs people
will let the stuff in, without a tariff, that the customer will
automatically discover it meets the standards.

That part is clearly within the SM

But for Automotive that's what type approval is all about

tim