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Online filling and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin under SAFTA and SAPTA for Indias Exports to Nepal w.e.f. 18th December 2019

CHEMEXCIL
Basic Chemicals, Cosmetics & Dyes Export Promotion Council
(Set-up by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt of India)

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Tel : 91-22-22021288, 22021330 Fax : 91-22-22026684.
E-mail : info@chemexcil.gov.in
Website : http://www.chemexcil.gov.in

EPC/LIC/COO 12/12/2019

ALL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

Online filling and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin under SAFTA

and SAPTA for India's Exports to Nepal w.e.f. 18th December 2019

Dear Members,

This is in continuation of our circular dated 23/09/2019 informing you about Online filing & Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin through the Common Digital Platform and Issue of CoO for India- Chile PTA from 25th September 2019 notified vide DGFT Trade Notice No. 34/(2015-2020) dated 19/09/2019.

Please note that O/o DGFT has now issued Trade Notice No. 41/2019-20 dtd., 12/12/2019 regarding Online filling and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin under SAFTA and SAPTA for India's Exports to Nepal w.e.f. 18th December 2019.

In view of above, for exports to Nepal under South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA), the Preferential Certificate of Origin shall be applied and issued only from this platform (http://coo.dgft.gov.in) with effect from 18th December 2019.

In light of the given cut-off date of 18th December 2019, exporters to Nepal intending to take benefits under SAFT A and SAPT A are requested to register on the new platform immediately.

Following points may be taken note of by exporters in regard to the CoO portal application process:

Online platform for Certificate of Origin CoO has been launched at url- http://coo.dgft.gov.in.

Digital Signature would be required for the purpose of electronic verification. The digital signature would be the same as used in other DGFT applications;

The digital signature to be used may be Class II or Class III and should have the IEC number of the firm embedded in the DSC;

On registration at the portal, a password would be sent on the email link to the IEC holder. In case the IEC holder desires to update email on which communication is to be done with the portal, the same may be done by using the 'Online IEC application' module on the DGFT website.

Once registration is done, all directors/ partners details and branch details would be auto-populated in the certificate of origin as available in the DGFT-IEC database. Please ensure that latest updated IEC details are available in the DGFT- IEC database and necessary steps taken to modify the IEC details online, whenever required;

For further guidance, registration and application help manual & FAQs may be seen on the main page of the CoO platform.

For any assistance you may utilize any of the following channels -

a.     Raise a complaint/suggestion   ticket through the Contact@DGFT Service available on the DGFT website
b.     Call the Helpline at the Toll Free number 1800-111-550
c.      Drop an email to coo-dgft@gov.in

Members are requested to take note of this ease of doing business measure and do the needful accordingly. The DGFT Trade Notice No. 41/2019-20 dated 12th Dec 2019 is available for reference using below link-

Notice No.	Year	Subject	Date	Details
Trade Notice No. 41/2019-20	2019-20	Online filling and Issuance of Preferential Certificate of Origin under SAFTA and SAPTA for India's Exports to Nepal w.e.f. 18th December 2019	12/12/2019	Download (66.72 KB)

Members may also send their comments/ feed-back on our e-mail id’s: ed@chemexcil.gov.in & deepak.gupta@chemexcil.gov.in.

Thanking You,

Yours faithfully,

(S. G. BHARADI)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

CHEMEXCIL