Which agreement refers to Rules of Origin and Preferential Tariff?

• A. Economic Partnership Agreement (E.P.A)
• B. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• C. Treaty of Paris
• D. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is how a trade agreement determines when goods can receive tariff relief and how that eligibility is proven. An Economic Partnership Agreement is designed to grant preferential tariffs to goods from partner regions and to lay out clear rules of origin so those benefits go only to products that truly originate there. It specifies the criteria that make a product originating (such as transformation or regional content thresholds) and the documentary proof needed (like a certificate of origin) to claim the tariff preference. Because it couples origin rules with tariff relief in one framework, it’s the most direct match for “Rules of Origin and Preferential Tariff.”

The other options involve different trade contexts: GATT is the broad multilateral framework governing general trade rules, not the specific origin criteria and tariff preferences of a single agreement; the Treaty of Paris is an historic treaty with no bearing on modern preferential tariffs; NAFTA (now USMCA) does include origin requirements and tariff preferences, but the Caribbean-EU context most commonly referenced with these terms points to EPAs.