---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 C.F.R. § 177.23"
title: "19"
number: "177.23"
heading: "Who may request a country-of-origin advisory ruling or final determination."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/177.23"
---

# §177.23. Who may request a country-of-origin advisory ruling or final determination.


A country-of-origin advisory ruling or final determination may be requested by:

- (a) A foreign manufacturer, producer, or exporter, or a United States importer of merchandise,
- (b) A manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler in the United States of a like product,
- (c) United States members of a labor organization or other association of workers whose members are employed in the manufacture, production, or wholesale in the United States of a like product, or
- (d) A trade or business association a majority of whose members manufacture, produce, or wholesale a like product in the United States.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: R.S. 251, as amended (19 U.S.C. 66), sec. 624, 46 Stat. 759 (19 U.S.C. 1624); Pub. L. 96-39, 93 Stat. 144.

### Source

Source: T.D. 83-13, 48 FR 1189, Jan. 11, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 19 U.S.C. 66, 1202 (General Note 3(i), Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States), 1502, 1624, 1625.