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Re:China Forces Norway to Adhere to ‘One China’ Policy by Reason077 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:27PM (#15410881)
Norway certainly can't import Chinese drills at 0% and then re-export them to Germany under the Norwegian tariff. Those drills are still of Chinese origin, and re-labeling them otherwise would be illegal. Only Norwegian drills can benefit from Norway's 10% tariff.

As for goods of mixed origin (manufactured in Norway but benefiting from Chinese inputs/components), that is indeed where things get complicated. And that's one of the reasons why trade agreements typically run many thousands of pages and take years to negotiate! But the WTO has pretty comprehensive "Rules of origin" to use as a starting point.

Re:China Forces Norway to Adhere to ‘One China’ Policy by avar on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:20PM (#15411354)
Yes legally it can't, but enforcing this on an open border with a direct road connection to the rest of the EU is going to be quite interesting.

Right now this situation exists in theory, but in practice pretty much nobody in the EU has any cause to try to import something via Norway, since its trade deals are quite similar to what the EU itself has.

But the EU has huge tariffs on some Chinese products, including slapping China with 30-70% tariffs on basic metal alloys in some cases[1][2].

The difference can be so large that it becomes beneficial for you as a private EU citizen to drive up to Norway yourself to fetch e.g. basic alloys at lower prices.

Nothing remotely like this situation exists within the land borders of Schengen today. There's the agreement with Iceland, but as it's an island enforcement is much easier.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/09/reuters-america-update-2-eu-...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/07/european-un...