关贸总协定的一些关键性条款如最惠国、国民待遇、反倾销反补贴以及保障条款等,都涉及原产地这个因素。采取什么样的原产地规则,自然会对这些条款的实施有潜在的影响。因历史条件所艰,关贸总协定本身未对原产地规则作任何规定,而是把它留给“各进口成员国依它本国法律规定,为适用最惠国〔以及总协定其他条款〕的目的,未确定货物是否实际原产于某国”。就总协定的几个 Some key provisions of the GATT, such as MFN, national treatment, anti-dumping countervailing, and safeguard clauses, all involve factors of origin. What kind of rules of origin to adopt will naturally have a potential impact on the implementation of these provisions. Due to difficult historical conditions, the GATT has not made any provision on the rules of origin itself, but left it to the “importing member states in accordance with its own laws and regulations, and for the purpose of applying MFN (and other provisions of the General Agreement), It is not determined whether the goods actually originate in a country." Several of the General Agreements