The Ministry of Production determined that exporters may request their Certificate of Origin from authorized entities in any jurisdiction of the country, through the provision 34/2019 of the Undersecretariat of Trade Facilitation published this Friday (04.10.2019) in the Official Gazette.
This repealed Article 2 of Resolution 48/2001 of the former Secretariat of Industry, which established that certifications could only be issued to applicants residing in the jurisdiction for which the corresponding entity was authorized.
In this way, there was a jurisdictional limit for the applicant when choosing the entity authorized to issue the Certificate of Origin.
The Certificate of Origin is an essential instrument in the framework of export operations, both to access a tariff preference or when required by the application of non-preferential trade policy measures in the country of destination of the merchandise.
Accordingly, the provision indicated that it is of vital importance to have an adequate and efficient system for issuing Certificates of Origin, in order to guarantee proper functioning for foreign trade users.
He also stressed that foreign trade has seen significant progress in terms of logistics, storage, distribution, timing and modernisation of the tools used.
For this reason he considered that an agile and adequate issuance of the Certificate of Origin, in which each applicant can freely choose the authorized entity based on their operational needs It is essential, and the existence of limitations determined by the applicant's location and the jurisdiction for which the entity was authorized is contrary to this.
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