country of origin在法律文件中有以下几个常见含义：原产国；出产国；起源国；原籍国。

【1】原产国

(a) for watches， the Trade Descriptions (Country of Origin) (Watches) Order was made in 1991 to specify that the country in which the movement of a watch is manufactured or produced is to be regarded as the country in which the watch has been manufactured， instead of where the last step of major transformation takes place; and (b) for piece-knitted garments for export to the US market， the Trade Descriptions (Place of Manufacture) Notice was made in 1991 to allow such goods to bear a Hong Kongorigin marking if the knitting of yarn into knit-to-shape panels takes place in Hong Kong， instead of mandating the origin marking based on the last step of major transformation (i.e. the stitching/linking of knit-to-shape panels into garment)， irrespective of whether the manufacture from knit-to-shape panels takes place in Hong Kong.

(a) 在手表方面，在一九九一年制定 的《商品说 明(原产国) (手表) 令》，订明制造或生产手表机芯的 国家，须被视为制造该手表的国家，而非手表进 行最后制造工序的地方；以及 (b) 在输往美国市场的织片成衣方面，在一九九一年 制定的《商品说明(制造地) 公告》淮许，不论 织片成衣是否在香港进行“从成形针织衫片制造”的工序，在香港进行“从纱织造成形针织衫片”工序的织片成衣可附有香港制造的标记，而非规定该等成衣必须以进行最后制造工序( 即以挑撞／连接方式将成形针织衫片制成成衣) 的地方作为来源标记。

【2】起源国

Algeria was saddened that joining the block position of a group of countries， Portugal had not accepted the recommendation of Algeria and many other countries to adhere to a core human rights instrument， the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families， although Portugal had long been a country of origin of migrant workers and was well placed to understand the suffering and indignity to which migrants were exposed.

阿尔及利亚表示可惜的是，葡萄牙加入了一个国家集团的集团立场，不接受阿尔及利亚和许多其他国家关于加入一项核心人权文书，即《保护所有移徙工人及其家庭成员权利国际公约》的建议，虽然葡萄牙历来是一个移徙工人的起源国， 完全可以理解移徙者受到的痛苦和屈辱，它建议葡萄牙在这方面起带头作用。

【3】原籍国

The Ministers further underscored the need for the international community to address the negative impact the migration of highly skilled personnel and those with advanced education from many developing countries has on the development efforts of their country of origin.

各位部长进一步强调，国际社会必须处理许多发展中国家的高技能人员和受过高等教育者移居国外给原籍国 发展 努力造成的消 极影响。