Capturing additional details for Certificate of Origin (COO) as per Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 in Bill of Entry.

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F.No. S/22-Gen- 20/2020-21/AM (I)/JNCH
Dated: 17.09.2020

       PUBLIC NOTICE NO. -120/2020 
                               DIN-20200978NW00001JE87D                      

Subject: Capturing additional details for Certificate of Origin (COO) as per Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 in Bill of Entry.

Attention of Importers, Exporters, Customs Brokers, Shipping Lines/ Agents, Logistics Service Providers, CFSs Custodians, Trade, Customs Staff and all other stakeholders is invited to ICES Advisory No. 34/2020 dated 17.09.2020 issued by Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, CBIC. 2. Reference is also invited to the CBIC’s Notification No.-81/2020 - Customs (N.T.) dated 21.08.2020 and JNCH’s Public Notice No. 114 dated 10.09.2020 on the subject Regulations. These Regulations apply to import of goods into India where the importer makes claim of preferential rate of duty in terms of a trade agreement. In terms of the Regulations, to claim preferential rate of duty under a trade agreement, the importer or his agent shall be required to file certain declarations at the time of filing Bill of Entry. In consonance with the same, following changes will come into effect in ICES w.e.f 21.09.2020:

2.1. Additional details in the Bill of Entry for capturing mandatory declarations while claiming PTA/FTA notifications for any item: Whenever an FTA/PTA Notification is claimed, it will be mandatory to declare the item wise details as per the BE_SW_INFO_TYPE table of the Bill of Entry, as mentioned in the Annexure 1. These additional declarations capture the requirement stipulated in the aforesaid Regulations.

2.2. Further, for each such item, in respect of which a PTA/FTA Notification is claimed, following things will be mandatory:

2.2.1. The relevant document pertaining to Certificate of Origin (hereinafter referred to as COO) under that PTA/FTA will have to be mandatorily uploaded on eSanchit and the IRN should be declared in the supporting document table for that specific item. Details of PTA/FTA Notifications and corresponding COO document code mapping along with description have been given in the Annexure 2.

2.2.2 If imported goods are transported directly from the country of origin and not through another country, then the COO code itself can be given in Transit Country field. In case of transport through different country, the country code of that country should be indicated in Transit country field.

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2.2.3. As per the requirement of the above Regulations, for these items, a self-declaration will have to be made by the importer in the Bill of Entry as –

“I/We declare that these goods qualify as originating goods for preferential rate of duty under the Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 notified vide Customs Notification No. 81/2020 - Customs (N.T.) dated 21.08.2020”.

This declaration is codified as CUF02 in ICES. This declaration can be filed in BE_STATEMENT table for every item where FTA/PTA Notification is claimed.

2.3. Mandatory defacing of documents before out of charge: Further, the COO should be mandatorily defaced before the Out of Charge (OOC) at the port of import. An option is already available in the TSK and SUP roles for confirming defacement of supporting documents in System, wherever required. With effect from 21.09.2020, marking defacement of each COO uploaded for a Bill of Entry will be mandatory, without which Out of Charge would not be allowed to be given in system.

The above changes will come into effect from 21.09.2020. Trade and other stakeholders are advised to refer to the new BE message format for filing the Bills of Entry w.e.f. 21.09.2020.

Difficulties, if any, faced in implementation of the said Public Notice may be brought to the notice of the Addl./ Joint Commissioner (Appraising Main (Import)) through email at appraisingmain.jnch@gov.in.

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 (Sunil Kumar Mall) 

Commissioner of Customs (NS-I)

Copy to: 1. The Chief Commissioner of Customs, Mumbai Zone-II, JNCH. 2. The Commissioner of Customs, NS-G/NS-I/NS-II/NS-III/NS-

Audit/NS-V, JNCH. 3. The Chairman JNPT//CEO NSICT, CEO GTI/ CEO BMCT for information. 4.
All Additional/Joint/Dy./Asstt. Commissioners of Customs, JNCH. 5. All Sections/Group of NS-G/NS-I/NS-II/NS-III/NS-Audit/NS-V, JNCH. 6.
Representative of CSLA/MANSA CFSAI / BCBA / FIEO / Members of PTFC

for information and circulation among their members and other importers

for information. 7. AC/DC, EDI for uploading on JNCH website immediately.

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ANNEXURE 1

Declaration in the SW_INFO_TYPE table of the Bill of Entry

Details
info_type info_qfr info_cd
info_text
Comments
Certificate of
Origin(COO) Particulars
ORC
COO
Issuing Country Code
COO
Number|Issue Date
Issuing Country Code will be mandatory. In case of back to back COO, country code of issuing authority has to be give which may be different than the country of origin.
Issue Date should be given in
‘ddmmyyyy’ format. COO Number and Issue Date should be separated by pipe
(|) delimiter
Origin Criteria ORC
ORG
COWO/COOG/COO P

General Rule/PSR, as applicable
COWO - Wholly Obtained
COOG - Others (General Rule)
COOP - Others (Product Specific Rule) info_text will be expected and be mandatory only when info_cd is COOG or COOP. For COWO, info_text should not be given
Accumulation/ Cumulation
ORC
ACM
Y/N

Declaration in the STATEMENT table of the Bill of Entry

Statement Type
Statement Code
Statement Text
DEC
CUF02
Statement Text should be blank. The declaration will automatically be taken from Statement Code

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ANNEXURE 2

COO Document Codes corresponding to different PTA/FTA Notifications

NOTIFICATION DOC_CODE
FTA/PTA
Description
073/2005
861001
COO- CEPA(Singapore)
Country of Origin Certificate as per the
Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of India and Republic of Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005- Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005
074/2005
861001
COO- CEPA(Singapore)
Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of India and Republic of Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005- Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005
075/2005
861001
COO- CEPA(Singapore)

Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of India and Republic of Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005- Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005 010/2008
861001
COO- CEPA(Singapore)
Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of India and Republic of Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005- Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005

101/2007
861002
COO-PTA(Chile)
Preferential Trading Agreement Between the
Republic of India and the Republic of Chile,Rules
2007. vide Notfn No. 84/2007-Cus(N.T.) dated 17.08.2007
019/2017
861002
COO-PTA(Chile) Preferential Trading Agreement Between the
Republic of India and the Republic of Chile,Rules
2007. vide Notfn No. 84/2007-Cus(N.T.) dated 17.08.2007

026/2000
861003
COO- FTA(Srilanka)
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Free Trade Agreement between the Democratic Socialistic
Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of India Rules, 2000. vide Notfn No. 19/2000 Cus(N.T.) dated 01.03.2000

NOTIFICATION DOC_CODE
FTA/PTA
Description
060/2000
861003
COO- FTA(Srilanka)
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Free Trade
Agreement between the Democratic Socialistic
Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of India Rules, 2000. vide Notfn No. 19/2000 Cus(N.T.) dated 01.03.2000
002/2007
861003
COO- FTA(Srilanka)
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Free Trade
Agreement between the Democratic Socialistic
Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of India Rules, 2000. vide Notfn No. 19/2000 Cus(N.T.) dated 01.03.2000

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053/2011
861004
COO- PTA(Malaysia)
Preferential Trade Agreement between the
Government of Republic of India and Malaysia, Rules, 2011. vide Notfn No. 43/2011-Cus(N.T.) dated 01.07.2011
151/2009
861005
COO-PTA(Korea
Preferential Trade Agreement between
Government of India and the Republic of Korea,
Rules 2009. vide Notification no. 187/2009- Cus(N.T.) dated 31.12.2009
152/2009
861005
COO-PTA(Korea

Preferential Trade Agreement between
Government of India and the Republic of Korea,
Rules 2009. vide Notification no. 187/2009- Cus(N.T.) dated 31.12.2009 046/2011
861006
COO- PTA(ASEAN)
Preferential Trade Agreement between the Governments of Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of India,Rules,2009 vide Notfn.
No.189/2009-Cus(N.T.) dated 31.12.19
063/2012
861006
COO- PTA(ASEAN) Preferential Trade Agreement between the Governments of Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of India,Rules,2009 vide Notfn.
No.189/2009-Cus(N.T.) dated 31.12.19
099/2011
861007
COO-SAFTA
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA). Vide Notfn. No. 75/2006(N.T.) dated 30.06.2006.
068/2012
861007
COO-SAFTA
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA). Vide Notfn. No. 75/2006(N.T.) dated 30.06.2006.

NOTIFICATION DOC_CODE
FTA/PTA
Description
057/2009
861008
COO- PTA(Mercosur)
Preferential Trade Agreement between the Government of MERCOSUR Member states and Republic of India, Rules, 2009. Vide Notfn. No. 56/2009-Cus(N.T.) dated 30.05.2009
076/2003
861009
COO- PTA(Afghanistan)
Preferential Trade Agreement between the
Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan and Republic of India, Rules, 2003. Vide Notification no. 33/2003-Cus(N.T.) dated 13.05.2003.
050/2018
861010
COO-APTA
Country of Origin Certificate as per the ASIAPacific Trade Agreement (Formerly known as Bangkok Agreement) rules, 2006. Vide Notfn. No.
94/2006-Cus(N.T.) dated 31.08.2006.
105/99
861011
COO- PTA(SAARC)
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Agreement on SAARC Preferential Trading Agreement, Rules,
1995. Vide Notfn. No. 73/1995 dated 07.12.1995.

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085/2004
861012
COO- PTA(Thailand)

Preferential Tariff Concessions for Trade between India and Thailand. Vide Notfn. No. 101/2004Cus(N.T.) dated 31.08.2004. 096/2008
861013
COO-PTA(LDC)
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Duty free
Tariff Preference Scheme for Least Developed Countries, Rules, 2015. Vide Notfn. No. 29/2015- Cus(N.T.) dated 10.03.2015.
236/89
861014
COO-GSP
Country of Origin Certificate as per the Agreement on Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries, Rules, 1989. vide Notfn No.
281/89-Cus(N.T.) dated 18.12.1989.
069/2011
861015
COO- CEPA(Japan)

Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the Republic of India and Japan, Rules, 2011. Vide Notfn. No. 55/2011-Cus(N.T.) dated 01.08.2011.