The essence of the substantial transformation rule is that a product cannot be said to originate in the country of exportation if it was not manufactured there.
The question, therefore, has been whether operations performed on products in the country of exportation are of such a substantial nature so as to justify the conclusion that the resulting product is a manufacture of that country.
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