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

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....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 contained therein. The grounds provided for verification are: a. In case of a do....

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....d 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 build an online repository on ICES for storing the signatures/seals to facilitate comparison by the assessin....