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Originally Posted by Picchio Special

"Goods whose production involved more than one country shall be deemed to originate in the country where they underwent their last, substantial, economically justified processing."
I thought individual countries also have specific country of origin laws. Typically, the country of origin is where greater than 50% of the total cost was spent to manufacture the item. This is somewhat sketchy because labor rates in Chian, India and other southeast Asian countries can be up to 100 times less than western countries. So if a (dare I say it) carbon bike in molded in China and painted and Italy, it could very well be "made in Italy". I don't know if they amoritize the mold costs into the part cost though.

Do you know Italy's country of origin laws?
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