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23-02-2021
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Notification No: |
Trade Notice No. 43/2020-2021
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Issuing Authority: |
DGFT
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Type: |
Trade Notice
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File No: |
File No. 01/02/82/AM-19/EDI |
Subject: |
Electronic filing and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin (CoO) for India’s Exports under India-Mercosur PTA and India-Thailand EHS w.e.f. 25th February 2021
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Government of India Ministry of Commerce and
Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Trade Notice No. 43/2020-2021
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi Dated: 23.02.2021
To,
All Exporters/Members of
Trade
All Designated Issuing Agencies under FTAs/PTAs
Subject:
Electronic filing and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin (CoO) for
India’s Exports under India-Mercosur PTA and India-Thailand EHS w.e.f. 25th
February 2021
In continuation to the earlier Trade Notice(s)
34/2015-2020 dated 19.09.2019,41/2019-2020 dated 12.12.2019,53/2019-2020 dated 02.03.2020,
01/2020-2021 dated 07.04.2020 and
30/2020-2021 dated 13.10.2020, it is informed
that the electronic platform for Preferential Certificate of Origin(CoO) is
being expanded further to add two (2) more FTAs/PTAs to facilitate electronic
application of Preferential Certificates of Origin under the given Trade
Agreements.
2. The Preferential Certificate of Origin for exports to
countries under the following trade agreements i.e.
i.India-Mercosur
Preferential Trade Agreement
ii. India-Thailand Early Harvest Scheme
shall also be applied and issued from the CoO e-platform with effect from
25th February 2021. No manual application for such a CoO should be submitted to
an issuing agency from 25th February 2021. Any manual applications submitted
prior to the given date may however be processed by the issuing agencies.
3. It is informed that for these applications under the above mentioned
Trade Agreements, the e-CoO system shall generate all the existing set of CoO
copies besides an additional copy i.e. electronic copy. The electronic copy
shall bear the image signature of the officer and stamp of the issuing agency.
The exporter may however get the remaining copies duly ink-signed by the issuing
officer along with the stamp of the issuing office. The paper copies of the CoOs
so issued may be collected by post or in person, for any submission to the Trade
Agreement’s partner countries authorities.
4. The concerned Indian
Exporters may please take note of the following points with regard to the
process being notified herewith:
—Digital Signature Certificate (DSC)
would be required for the purpose of electronic submission. The digital
signature would be the same as used in other DGFT applications; —The digital
signature may be Class II or Class III and should have the IEC of the firm
embedded in the DSC; —Any new applicant exporter would be required to
initially register at the portal. The password would be sent on the email and
mobile number of the IEC holder. In case the IEC holder desires to update their
email on which communication is to be sent, the same may be done by using the
‘IEC Profile Management’ service on the DGFT website https://dgft.gov.in —Once
registration is completed, the IEC branch details would be auto-populated as per
the DGFT-IEC database. Applicant is required to ensure that updated IEC details
are available in the DGFT system. Necessary steps may be taken to modify the IEC
details online, whenever required.
5. For further guidance on registration
and application submission, the Help manual & FAQs may be accessed on the
landing page at https://coo.dgft.gov.in . For any further assistance you may
utilize any of the following channels —
—Raise a service
request/suggestion ticket through the DGFT Helpdesk service —Call the
toll-free DGFT Helpdesk numbers —Send an email to DGFT CoO Helpdesk at
[email protected]
This issues with the approval of the competent authority.
(Issued from File No. 01/02/82/AM-19/EDI)
(Md. Moin Afaque) Deputy
Director General of Foreign Trade
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