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In international marketing, the country of origin is the mental cue a buyer takes from a 'made in' label, and the country-of-origin effect is the way that cue shifts how the product is judged before it is even tried. Bilkey and Nes, in their 1982 review Country-of-Origin Effects on Product Evaluations, found that the origin label alone moved quality perceptions across many studies, often acting as a stand-in for information the buyer did not have. Han's 1989 Country Image: Halo or Summary Construct? asked how the cue works, and reported that it can serve as a halo that colors beliefs when a buyer is unfamiliar with a country's goods, or as a summary of what the buyer has already learned once they know the goods well. The referent here is a perception in a consumer's head, measured on rating scales, not a fact about where the item was made. A firm can shape it with advertising and branding, and it can be wrong.[1][2]
Around the origin cue sits a cluster of consumer-psychology constructs about feelings toward foreign and domestic goods. Consumer ethnocentrism is the belief that buying imported products is wrong because it harms the home economy and is unpatriotic, and Shimp and Sharma introduced it with the CETSCALE in their 1987 paper Consumer Ethnocentrism: Construction and Validation of the CETSCALE. It differs from the origin effect: ethnocentrism is a general disposition to favor home-country products regardless of their merits, while the origin effect is a judgment about a specific country's goods. Related siblings include country image, the overall picture a buyer holds of a nation, and animosity toward a particular country. These constructs overlap and are often measured together, which makes it easy to confuse a broad home-country bias with a specific quality inference.[3]
In international trade and customs law, country of origin is not a perception but a legal determination of where a good is deemed to have been made, and it governs tariffs, quotas, trade-remedy duties, and origin marking. Because modern goods are made from parts and processing in several countries, the law needs rules of origin to assign a single origin, and the core test is substantial transformation: origin is the last country where the good was changed enough to take on a new name, character, or use. The World Trade Organization's Agreement on Rules of Origin (1994) sets disciplines for these non-preferential rules and launched a program to harmonize them across members. This meaning is a rule applied by an authority to a physical supply chain, with an answer that is right or wrong under the law, not a belief that varies from buyer to buyer. A product can carry a 'made in' origin under customs law that few consumers would guess.[6]
Global production has pulled the single origin cue apart into several, and marketing research has followed by decomposing it. Chao's 1993 study Partitioning Country of Origin Effects: Consumer Evaluations of a Hybrid Product separated the country of design from the country of assembly and showed that each affects quality and value perceptions on its own, so a product 'designed in one country, assembled in another' carries a mixed cue. Han and Terpstra's 1988 Country-of-Origin Effects for Uni-National and Bi-National Products had already found that for bi-national products the country of manufacture and the brand's home country can pull in different directions. The construct thus splits into country of design, country of manufacture or assembly, and country of brand, which need not agree. This is still the marketing meaning, a set of perceptions, but it shows the origin cue is not one thing even inside marketing.[4][5]
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