For a smooth projective variety X over an algebraic number field k a conjecture of Bloch and Beilinson predicts that the kernel of the Albanese map of X is a torsion group. In this article we consider a product $$X=C_1\times \cdots \times C_d$$
X
=
C
1
×
⋯
×
C
d
of smooth projective curves and show that if the conjecture is true for any subproduct of two curves, then it is true for X. For a product $$X=C_1\times C_2$$
X
=
C
1
×
C
2
of two curves over $$\mathbb {Q} $$
Q
with positive genus we construct many nontrivial examples that satisfy the weaker property that the image of the natural map $$J_1(\mathbb {Q})\otimes J_2(\mathbb {Q})\xrightarrow {\varepsilon }{{\,\textrm{CH}\,}}_0(C_1\times C_2)$$
J
1
(
Q
)
⊗
J
2
(
Q
)
→
ε
CH
0
(
C
1
×
C
2
)
is finite, where $$J_i$$
J
i
is the Jacobian variety of $$C_i$$
C
i
. Our constructions include many new examples of non-isogenous pairs of elliptic curves $$E_1, E_2$$
E
1
,
E
2
with positive rank, including the first known examples of rank greater than 1. Combining these constructions with our previous result, we obtain infinitely many nontrivial products $$X=C_1\times \cdots \times C_d$$
X
=
C
1
×
⋯
×
C
d
for which the analogous map $$\varepsilon $$
ε
has finite image.