The Ministry of Production decided to eliminate the Certificate of Origin as an instrument to prove the origin of merchandise for consumption that enters from abroad, through the 1288 / 2019 resolution published this Tuesday (26.11.2019) in the Official Gazette.
The regulations state that "foreign trade has been the subject of profound advances in terms of logistics, storage, distribution, timing and modernization of the tools used, and, in this context, the Certificate of Origin for statistical purposes as a means of proving the origin of goods generates delays and higher costs in the operation."
Accordingly, he considered that "It is necessary to eliminate the certificate of origin as a mechanism to prove the origin of products for statistical purposes«.
Thus the regulations indicated that Documentary requirements will be required when the merchandise is subject to the application of antidumping or compensatory or specific duties or safeguard measures.a, also including imports subject to such treatments because they originate in countries that are not granted most-favored-nation treatment.
Furthermore, established as a documentary requirement the presentation of the Affidavit of Non-Preferential Origin, for the purposes of proving the origin at the time of the clearance process for final import destinations for consumption.
The Affidavit of Non-Preferential Origin must be submitted for the purposes of completing the clearance process for the final import destinations for consumption of the goods in question, together with the rest of the required customs documentation.
To do so, interested parties must access the Remote Procedures Platform (TAD), through which they must generate the Declaration.
The Directorate of Origin of Merchandise will initiate a Non-Preferential Origin Investigation procedure on a specific tariff item originating from one or more origins, in response to complaints from the private sector or inconsistencies noted by the General Directorate of Customs or the enforcement authority regarding the origin declared in the Non-Preferential Origin Affidavit.
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