Common use of Certification of Origin Clause in Contracts

Certification of Origin. 1. The Certificate of Origin is the document that certifies that goods fulfil the origin requirements as set out in this Annex so that they can benefit from the preferential tariff treatment as foreseen in this Agreement. The said Certificate is valid for only one importing operation concerning one or more goods and its original or in exceptional cases a copy of the, original of which has to be submitted within 30 days from the date of clearance of goods in the importing Party and shall be included in the documentation to be presented at the customs authorities of the importing Party. 2. The issue of Certificates of Origin and its control, shall be under the responsibility of a Government office in each Party. The Certificates of Origin shall be directly issued by those authorities or through delegation as referred to in paragraph 3 and shall be in English.. 3. The Certificate of Origin shall be signed and issued by Government offices to be indicated by the Parties who may delegate the signing and issuing of origin certificates to other Government offices or representative corporate body. 4. The Certificate mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be issued in the form agreed upon by the Parties and upon a sworn declaration by the final producer of the goods and the respective commercial invoice. 5. In all cases, the number and date of the commercial invoice shall be indicated in the box reserved for this purpose in the Certificate of Origin. 6. When a good to be traded is invoiced by a non-Party operator, the producer or exporter of the originating Party shall inform, in the field titled "observations" of the respective Certificate of Origin, that the goods subject to declaration shall be invoiced from that non-Party operator, reproducing the following data from the commercial invoice issued by this operator: name, address, country, number and date. Value addition carried out only in the territory of a Party shall be taken into account for calculation of local value addition.