87Contrary to what the Council and the Commission maintain, on the other hand, there is no reason to conclude that such proof is in any event possible only where the imported parts are merely transshipped via the country to which the measures apply. The argument put forward by the Council and the Commission that Article 13(2) of the basic regulation must be interpreted by analogy with Article 1(3) of that regulation cannot be followed. First, Article 1(3) contains a definition of ‘exporting country’, a concept to which Article 13(2) does not refer even by implication. Second, although as a general rule where the parts in question are merely transshipped via the country subject to the measures they originated in another country, it cannot be precluded as a matter of principle that proof of such origin may be adduced in other circumstances.
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