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F. No. GEN/EDI/ADV/4/2020-EDI-O/o COMMR-CUS-EXP-ZONE-I-MUMBAI Date: 21 .09.2020

Public Notice No. 64/2020

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

Kind reference of all the Importers, Customs Brokers and all other stakeholders is invited to CBIC Notification No. 81/2020 - Customs (N.T.) dated 21.08.2020 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:

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

   • 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(Image Reference Number) 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 4 description have been given in the Annexure 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 then country code

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• of that country should be indicated in Transit country field. 2.3. As per the requirement of the above Regulations, for these items, a selfdeclaration 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 CUFO2 in ICES.This declaration can be filed in BE_STATEMENT table for every item where FTA/PTA Notification is claimed.

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.

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

Action to be taken in terms of decisions conveyed in this Public Notice should be considered as Standing Order for the purpose of officers. _\ a vee (MANISH MANI TIWARI)“ai Commissioner of Custom (Export), New Custom House, Mumbai, Zone-I

Copy to:

1. The Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs, Mumbai Zone-1.

2. The Commissioner of Customs, General and Preventive, NCH, Mumbai Zone-! 3. The Commissioner of Customs, Audit, Import I, Import I], NCH, Mumbai Zone-I 4. All Additional Commissioner of Customs, NCH, Mumbai Zone-I 5. All Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Customs, NCH, Mumbai Zone-I 6. All Section/Groups, NCH, Mumbai Zone-I

7. All Trade Members, All Custom Brokers, and Importers 8. AC/DC, EDI for uploading on NCH website immediately. 9. Office Copy

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ANNEXURE 1

Declaration in the SW_INFO_TYPE table of the Bill of Entry

||info_|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||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||
|Certificate of|||COO|different||
|||Issuing Country||than the country of|4|
|Origin(COO)|COO||Number |Issue | origin.|||
|||Code||Issue Date should be||
|Particulars|||Date|given in||
|||||‘ddmmyyyy’ format.||
|||||COO||
|||||Number and Issue||
|||||Date||
|||||should be separated by||
|||||pipe||
|||||(|) delimiter||
|||||COWO - Wholly|#|
|||||Obtained||
|||||COOG - Others (General||
|||||Rule)||
|||||COOP - Others||
|||||(Product||
||||General|Specific Rule)||
|||COWO/COOG/C||info_text will be||
|Origin Criteria||ORC |ORG|OOP|Rule/PSR, as_|| expected||
|||||and be mandatory only||
||||applicable|when||
|||||info_cdisCOOGor|4|

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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

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||DOC_CO||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Comprehensive Economic Cooperation||
||||Agreement||
||8610|COO-|between the Republic ofIndia and||
|073/2005|Ol|CEPA(Singapo|Republic of|||
|||re)|Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no.||
||||59/2005-|‘|
||||Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005||
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Comprehensive Economic Cooperation||
||||Agreement||
||8610|COO-|between the Republic ofIndia and||
|074/2005|Ol|CEPA(Singapo|Republic|Republic of||
|||re)|Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no.||
||||99/2005-||
||||Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005|‘|
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Comprehensive Economic Cooperation||
||||Agreement||
||8610|COO-|between the Republic ofIndia and||
|075/2005|Ol|CEPA(Singapo|Republic|Republic of||
|||re)|Singapore,Rules,2005.VideNotfn.no.||

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|Cus(N.T.)|dated|20.07.2005|
|Country|of|Origin|Certificate|as|per|
|the|+|
|,|
|Comprehensive|Economic|Cooperation|
|Agreement|
|8610|COO-|between|the|Republic|of|India|and|
|010/2008|Ol|CEPA(Singapo | Republic|of|
|re)|Singapore,|Rules,2005.|Vide|Notfn.|no.|
|59 /2005-|
|Cus(N.T.)|dated|20.07.2005|
|Country|of|Origin|Certificate|as|per|
|the|
|Preferential|Trading|Agreement|*|
|Between|the|
|8610|COO-|Republic|of India|and|the|Republic|of|
|101/2007|02|PTA(Chile)|Chile,Rules|
|2007.|vide|Notfn|No.|84/2007-|
|Cus(N.T.)|dated|
|17.08.2007|
|Country|of|Origin|Certificate|as|per|
|the|
|Preferential|Trading|Agreement|
|Between|the|#|
|8610|COO-|Republic|of India and|the|Republic|of|
|019/2017|02|PTA(Chile)|Chile,|Rules|
|2007.|vide|Notfn|No.|84/2007-|
|Cus(N.T.)|dated|
|17.08.2007|
|Country|of Origin|Certificate|as|per|the|
|Free|Trade|
|Agreement|between|the|Democratic|
|Socialistic|
|026/2000|8610|COO-|Republic|of Sri|Lanka|and|the|Republic|+|

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||DOC_C||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per the||
||||Free Trade||
||||Agreement between the Democratic||
||||Socialistic||
||861|COO-|Republic of Sri Lankaand the Republic||
|060/2000|003||of India||
|||FTA(Srilanka)||Rules, 2000. vide Notfn No. 19/2000||
||||Cus(N.T.)||
||||dated 01.03.2000||
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per the||
||||Free Trade||
||||Agreement between the Democratic||
||||Socialistic||
||861|COO-|Republic ofSri Lanka and the Republic||
|002/2007|003||of India||
|||FTA(Srilanka)||Rules, 2000. vide Notfn No. 19/2000||
||||Cus(N.T.)||
||||dated 01.03.2000||
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per|‘|
||||the||
|||COO-|Preferential Trade Agreement||
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||||between the||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||861||Government ofRepublic of India and||
|053/2011|004||Malaysia,||
|||PTA(Malaysia) |Rules, 2011. vide Notfn No. 43/2011-|||
||||Cus(N.T.)||
||||dated 01.07.2011||
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Preferential Trade Agreement|$|
||||between||
||861|COO-|Government ofIndia and the Republic||
|151/2009|00S|PTA(Korea|ofKorea,||
||||Rules 2009. vide Notification no.||
||||187 /2009-||
||||Cus(N.T.) dated 31.12.2009||
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Preferential Trade Agreement||
||||between|+|
||861|COO-|Government ofIndia and the Republic||
|152/2009|005|PTA(Korea|ofKorea,||
||||Rules 2009. vide Notification no.||
||||187/2009-||
||||Cus(N.T.) dated 31.12.2009||
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Preferential Trade Agreement||
||||between the||
||||Governments of Member States of the|¢|
||861|COO-|Association||
|046/2011|006||ofSoutheast Asian Nations (ASEAN)||
|||PTA(ASEAN) | and the|||
||||Republic ofIndia,Rules,2009 vide||
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||||ceA|-|
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Preferential Trade Agreement||
||||between the||
|||||"|
||||Governments of Member States of the||
||861|COO-|Association||
|063/2012|006||ofSoutheast Asian Nations (ASEAN)||
|||PTA(ASEAN)|| and the||
||||Republic of India,Rules,2009 vide||
||||Notfn.||
||||No.189/2009-Cus(N.T.) dated||
||||31.12.19||
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per the||
||||Agreement||
||861||on SouthAsian FreeTradeArea|*|
|099/2011|O07|COO-SAFTA|| (SAFTA). Vide||
||||Notfn. No. 75/2006(N.T.) dated||
||||30.06.2006.||
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per the||
||||Agreement||
||861||on South Asian Free Trade Area||
|068/2012|O07|COO-SAFTA_|| (SAFTA). Vide||
||||Notfn. No. 75/2006(N.T.) dated||
||||30.06.2006.||
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||DOC_C||||
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per||
||||the||
||||Preferential Trade Agreement between||
||||the||
|057/2009||861||Coo-|| Government ofMERCOSURMember||
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||;|008|PTA(Mercosu| states and|||
||||r)|Republic of India, Rules, 2009. Vide||
|||||Notfn. No.||
|||||56/2009-Cus(N.T.) dated 30.05.2009||
|||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per||
|||||the|a|
|||||Preferential Trade Agreement between||
|||||the||
|||861|COO-|Transitional Islamic State of||
||076/2003|009|PTA(Afghanista| Afghanistan and|||
||||n)|Republic of India, Rules, 2003. Vide||
|||||Notification||
|||||no. 33/2003-Cus(N.T.) dated||
|||||13.05.2003.||
|||||Country of Origin Certificate as per||
|||||the ASIA-|*|
|||||Pacific Trade Agreement (Formerly||
|||861||known as||
||050/2018|010|COO-APTA | Bangkok Agreement) rules, 2006. Vide|||
|||||Notfn. No.||
|||||94/2006-Cus(N.T.) dated 31.08.2006.||
|||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per the||
|||||Agreement||
|||861|COO-|on SAARC Preferential Trading Agreement,||
||105/99|O11||Rules,||
||||PTA(SAARC) | 1995. Vide Notfn. No. 73/1995 dated|||
|||||07.12.1995,||
|||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per||
|||||the||
|||||Preferential Tariff Concessions for Trade||
|||861|COO-|between||
||085/2004|012|PTA(Thailand||India and Thailand. Vide Notfn. No.||
||||)|101/2004-||
|||||Cus(N.T.)dated31.08.2004.||

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|;||||Country of Origin Certificate as per the|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Duty free|
|||||Tariff Preference Scheme for Least|
||861|COO-||Developed|
|096/2008|013|PTA(LDC)||Countries, Rules, 2015. Vide Notfn. No.|
|||||29/2015-|
|||||Cus(N.T.) dated 10.03.2015.|
|||||Country of Origin Certificate as per the|
|||||Agreement|
|||||on Global System ofTrade Preferences|
||861|||among|
|236/89|014|COO-GSP||Developing Countries, Rules, 1989. vide|
|||||Notfn No.|
|||||281/89-Cus(N.T.) dated 18.12.1989.|
|||||Country of Origin Certificate as per|
|||||the|
|||||Comprehensive Economic Partnership|
|||||Agreement|
||861|COO-||between the Republic ofIndia and|
|069/2011|O15|||Japan, Rules,|
|||CEPA(Japan)||2011.|2011. Vide Notfn. No. 55/2011-|
|||||Cus(N.T.} dated|
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