---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 C.F.R. § 181.132"
title: "19"
number: "181.132"
heading: "Disassembly."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/181.132"
---

# §181.132. Disassembly.

- (a) **Treated as production.** For purposes of implementing the rules of origin provisions of General Note 12, HTSUS, and Chapter Four of the NAFTA, except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, disassembly is considered to be production, and a component recovered from a good disassembled in the territory of a Party will be considered to be originating as the result of such disassembly provided that the recovered component satisfies all applicable requirements of Annex 401 and this part.
- (b) **Exception; new goods.** Disassembly, as provided in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, will not be considered production in the case of components that are recovered from new goods. For purposes of this paragraph, a “new good” means a good which is in the same condition as it was when it was manufactured and which meets the commercial standards for new goods in the relevant industry.

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 37674, June 30, 2005]

### Authority

Authority: 19 U.S.C. 66, 1202 (General Note 3(i), Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States), 1624, 3314; Subpart D of part 181 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1520(d).

### Source

Source: T.D. 95-68, 60 FR 46364, Sept. 6, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[70 FR 37674, June 30, 2005]