Instructions regarding implementation of Rules of Origin under Free/Preferential Trade Agreements and the verification of preferential Certificates of Origin

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....plementation of Rules of Origin under Free/Preferential Trade Agreements and the verification of preferential Certificates of Origin- reg. India has signed Free/Preferential Trade Agreements / Comprehensive Economic Partnership/ Cooperation Agreement (FTA/CEPA/CECA) with a number of countries and trading blocks. 2. Rules of Origin are notified under each of the Agreements which require the importer to, inter alia, make a claim for preferential tariff at the time of importation, and submit a Certificate of Origin (COO) in the prescribed form. The Rules of Origin under the FTAs, as notified under Section 5 (1) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, provide for verifying the authenticity of the Certificates of Origin and also the information c....

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....ure for verification of origin. One of the usual conditions for accepting the certificate is that it should be signed by the authorized signatories whose name, signature and seal have been communicated by the FTA partner country through agreed channels. At present, the signatures and seals are received by the Board, either directly from the government of the FTA partner country or through the Department of Commerce. These specimen seals and signatures are circulated to all Chief Commissioners by the Customs V Section of the Board by email. The specimen seals and signatures are also forwarded to DRI, which circulates the paper copies to all Chief Commissioners. 4. In this connection, Board has tasked the Directorate General of Systems to ....

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.... followed with regard to the quantum of security to be obtained under section 18 of the Customs Act, 1962. Nodal Points in the Board 9. All requests for verification under Free/ Preferential Trade agreements/ CECA/CEPA should be addressed in the Board to: Director (International Customs Division) Central Board of Excise & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Room No. 49, North Block, New Delhi -110001. 011- 2309 3380 (off); 011-2309 3760 (fax.) Email: [email protected] 10. Difficulties, if any, faced in the implementation of this instruction, may be immediately brought to the notice of the Board. 11. Hindi version follows. Yours faithfull....