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C.D. HOWE commentary - Bumper to Bumper: Will the CUSMA Rules

27 Jun 2019

Net Cost Method The formula is: RVC = (NC-VNM)/NC x 100 Where RVC is the is the regional value content, expressed as a percentage; NC is the net cost of the good; and VNM is the value of non-originating materials including materials of undetermined origin used by the producer in the production of the good. [...] As with The Auto Appendix, Article 4, sets out special passenger vehicles and light trucks, the full phase- requirements for the RVC calculations for two in of the higher thresholds will be complete by the categories of parts used in heavy trucks: principal later of January 1, 2023, or three years after the date parts for heavy trucks, listed in Table D of the of entry into force of CUSMA. [...] The RVC calculation for parts produced in the same Aver aging RVC Calculations plant may be averaged over the fiscal year of the As in NAFTA, Article 5 of the Auto Appendix motor vehicle producer to whom the good is sold, sets out various averaging options that producers or over any quarter or month or over the fiscal of vehicles and parts can use in making their year of the producer of the automo. [...] The Components requirement begins at 30 percent from the later To calculate the percentage points attributable of January 1, 2020, or the date of CUSMA’s entry to “high wage material and manufacturing into force, increases the next year to 33 percent, expenditures,”18 the following year to 36 percent and finally to (a) the numerator is the annual purchase value of 40 percent from the later of Janu. [...] This is the new rules should lead to a modest increase in particularly the case in the United States, with employment in the US automotive sector, but the its complex rules for approving trade agreements costs of vehicles produced in the United States and its separation of powers.
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