Electronic filing and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin (CoO) under India-European Free Trade Association Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (India-EFTA TPA) with effect from October 01, 2025

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....n Free Trade Association Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (India-EFTA TPA) with effect from October 01, 2025 - regarding. It is informed that upon coming into force of India- European Free Trade Association Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (India-EFTA TEPA) on October 01, 2025, Preferential Certificates of Origin for exports to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland under the above said agreement will be rolled out on Trade Connect ePlatform (www.trade.gov.in ) which serves as the unified digital platform for application and issuance of all electronic Certificates of Origin (eCOO) for Indian exports. 2. As per the agreed terms of the India-EFTA TEPA, eCOO will be available via the "Certificate of Origin" servic....

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....y mapped will undertake verification activity in case of concerns raised by the partner countries as per the agreement. vi. Once submitted, the application appears with file status as "Auto Approved Pending Issuance". vii. The applicant may then proceed by clicking on "Generate Self-Declared CoO" against the submitted application. The system will also prompt for uploading scanned copy of signature of the applicant (if not already uploaded during a previous application of the same type) which needs to be saved. viii. With the mandatory use of the linked DSC of the applicant, the Self-Declaration based eCOO may then be generated. ix. Self-Declaration based eCOO will be generated in two copies, both with QR ....

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.... ii. Additional user accounts for the same IEC, if necessary, maybe created and linked using DSC on www.dgft.gov.in and the credentials can be used on Trade Connect ePlatform for login including for filing/generating eCOO. iii. The types of digital signatures accepted in the DGFT common digital ecosystem and the process of linking DSC to IEC can be perused at www.dgft.gov.in by navigating to the "Learn" tab, selecting "Application Help and FAQs" (https://www.dgft.gov.in/CP/?opt=application-help ), and going through the help documents and videos under "IEC Profile Management" section. iv. All users may ensure that their name in the DGFT/Trade Connect user profile matches completely with the name in the Digital Signature (DS....