Certificate of origin/corporate

A Certificate of Origin (COO) may be a document ordinarily employed in international trade. It establishes the country of origin of the merchandise, that is especially necessary for associate degree business people claiming tariff advantages against the product(s). It's typically within the kind of a press release connected to the industrial invoice, or a separate declaration, which supplies a line item-wise list of the origin of all products.


A COO is signed by the businessperson (or a certified representative) and authorized to be true and proper.


Types of the certificate of origin are: 

Two types of Coo is discriminatory and non-preferential.


Under the discriminatory theme, a COO is issued just in case of exports that India receives tariff preferences. The discriminatory arrangements and agreements that the Certificate of Origin is needed are:


  • Generalized System of Preferences: Unilateral tariff concessions granted to developing countries by elite developed countries
  • Global System of Trade Preferences: Tariff concessions changed between developing countries. India has this agreement with twelve countries nowadays and on a particular variety of products.
  • SAARC discriminatory mercantilism Agreement: Tariff concessions specified by the seven SAARC nations among themselves
  • Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement: Aims for relaxation of the tariff further as non-tariff obstacles across the Asia-Pacific region and India may be a part of it

India-Sri Lanka trade Agreement

India-Thailand trade Agreement