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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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Public Notice No. 20/2020

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 —- reg.

Kind attention of the Importers/Exporters, Custom Brokers, Shipping Lines/Agents, Logistic Service Providers, ICD/CFS/Other Custodians and Trade falling under the jurisdiction of Customs House, Mundra and Other Stakeholders is invited to the above subject and relevant Advisory No. 34/2020 dated 17°" September, 2020 issued by Deputy Director, ICES, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, CBIC, New Delhi (copy enclosed). 2. All eligible importers and other stake holders are requested to go through the said Advisory No. 34/2020 dtd 17.09.2020 in respect of the above mentioned subject and file the required declarations and comply with the provisions mentioned therein.

Difficulty faced, if any, may be brought to the notice of the undersigned

: < Enclosed |. V mn : As above: (T.V.Ravi) (| \7 L9)20 ; Commissioner

Copy to:-

The Chief Commissioner of Customs, Gujarat Zone, Ahmedabad
The Additional Commissioner of Customs Mundra
All the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Customs CH, Mundra 4. Mundra/Kandla Custom Brokers Association
Mundra Shipping Agent Association
M/s. MICT Terminal
M/s. All Adani Terminals

All Trade Associations
Notice Board/ Website
EDI Section, for uploading on “Commissionerate” Website

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Directorate General of Systems and Data Management CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES & CUSTOMS Dept. of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India SSSareese Date: Sep 17%, 2020 Advisory No: 34/2020 Category: Customs Issued by: DGoS, ICES

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 is invited to the Board’s Notification 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.

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 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. 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 of that country should be indicated in Transit country field.

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 CUFO2 in ICES.

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Directorate General of Systems and Data Management CENTRAL BOARD OF INDIRECT TAXES & CUSTOMS

Dept. of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

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

Mandatory defacing of documents before out of charge: Further, the COO should be mandatorily defaced before the Out of Charge (OWC) 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. Wide publicity may be given and trade may be suitably advised to refer to the new BE message format for filing the Bills of Entry w.e.f. 21.09.2020.

Kshitij Jain Deputy Director, ICES

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ANNEXURE 1

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Declaration in the STATEMENT table of the Bill of Entry

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ANNEXURE2

COO Document Codes corresponding to different PTA/FTA Notifications

|[NOTIFICATION]|Doccope|||<br>FTA/PTA ||—pesciption<br>Country ofOrigin Certificate as perthe|
|---|---|---|---|
|073/2005|861001|coo-<br>CEPA(Singapore)|ComprehensiveEconomicCooperationAgreement<br>betweentheRepublicofIndiaandRepublic of<br>Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005-|
||||Cus(N.T.) dated 20.07.2005|
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per the|
|074/2005|861001|coo-<br>CEPA(Singapore)|Comprehensive EconomicCooperationAgreement<br>between the RepublicofIndiaand Republicof<br>Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005-|
||||Cus(N.T.} dated 20.07.2005|
||||Country of Origin Certificate as per the|
|075/2005|861001|coo-<br>CEPA(Singapore)|Comprehensive EconomicCooperationAgreement<br>betweentheRepublicofIndiaand Republicof<br>Singapore, Rules,2005. Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005-|
||||Cus(N.T.) dated20.07.2005|
||||Country of Origin Certificate as perthe|
|010/2008|861001|coo-<br>CEPA(Singapore)|ComorehensiveEconomicCooperationAgreement<br>betweenthe RepublicofIndiaand Republicof<br>Singapore, Rules,2005.<br>Vide Notfn. no. 59/2005-|
||||Cus(N.7.) dated 20.07.2005|
||||Country ofOriginCertificate as per the|
|101/2007|861002|COO-PTA(Chile) ||Preferential Trading Agreement Betweenthe<br> Republic ofIndiaandthe RepublicofChile,Rules|
||||2007. vide NotfnNo. 84/2007-Cus(N.T.) dated|
||||17.08.2007|
||||Country of Origin Certificate as perthe|
|019/2017|861002|COO-PTA(Chile) ||Preferential TradingAgreement Betweenthe<br> Republic of India andthe Republic of Chile, Rules|
||||2007. vide Notfn No. 84/2007-Cus(N.T.) dated|
||||17.08.2007|
||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per the FreeTrade|
|026/2000|861003|coo-<br>FTA(Srilanka)|Agreement betweentheDemocratic Socialistic<br>Repubtiic ofSriLankaandtheRepublicofIndia<br>Rules, 2000. vide Notfn No. 19/2000 Cus(N.T.)|
||||dated01.03.2000|

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|-NoTiFIcaTION<br>| Doc_cope |<br>057/2009<br>861008|||FF.es <br>coo-<br>PTA(Mercesur)<br>i|ae_<br>Count yofOriginCertificateasper the<br>| PreferentialTradeAgreementbetweenthe<br>| Gove'\;mentofMERCOSUR Memberstatesand<br>Repub.ic of India, Rules, 2009. Vide Notfn. No.|
|||||56/2009-Cus(N.T.) dated 30.05.2009|
|||||Country of Origin Certificate as perthe|
|076/2003|861009||Coo.<br>PTA(Afghanistan)|PreferentialTradeAgreementbetweenthe<br>Transitional IslamicStateofAfghanistanand<br>Republic of India, Rules, 2003. Vide Notification|
|||||no.33/2003-Cus(N.T.) dated 13.05.2003.|
|||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per theASIA-|
|050/2018|manya0||ROO-BPTA|PacificTradeAgreement (Formerlyknown as<br>Bangkok Agreement) rules,2006. VideNotfn. No.|
|||||94/2006-Cus(N.T.) dated 31.08.2006.|
|105/99|861011||coo-<br>PTA(SAARC)|Country ofOriginCertificateaspertheAgreement<br>onSAARC Preferential TradingAgreement, Rules,<br>1995. Vide Notfn. No. 73/1995 dated 07.12.1995.|
|=e|sole?||COOo-<br>PTA(Thailand) —_||CountryofOriginCertificateasper the<br>Preferential TariffConcessions forTrade between<br> IndiaandThailand.VideNotfn.No. 101/2004-|
|||||Cus(N.T.) dated31.08.2004.|
|||||Country ofOrigin Certificate as per the Duty free|
|096/2008|861013||COO-PTA(LDC)|TariffPreferenceSchemefor Least Developed<br>Countries, Rules,2015.VideNotfn.No.29/2015-<br>Cus(N.T.) dated 10.03.2015.|
|||||Country ofOriginCertificate as per theAgreement|
|236/89|SOLOme|ones||on Global SystemofTradePreferences among<br>DevelogingCountries, Rules, 1989.videNotfnNo.|
|||||281/85-Cus(N.T.)dated 18.12.1989,|
|||||Country of OriginCertificate as perthe|
|069/2011|861015|coo-<br>CEPA(Japan)||ComprehensiveEconomicPartnershipAgreement<br>betweentheRepublicofIndiaandJapan, Rules,<br>2011. Vide Notfn. No. 55/2011-Cus(N.T.) dated|
|||||01.08.2011.|

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