Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department
of Commerce
Directorate General
of Foreign Trade
Policy Circular No.8 (RE-2006)/2004-09
Dated: 6th June, 2006
Subject:
Certificate of Origin (Non-preferential) issued to exporters
by agencies listed in
Appendix 4-C of Hand Book of Procedure Vol.I --- information in Col. 2 of
the Certificate.
Attention is invited to Para 2.21.2 of
the Hand Book of
Procedure and to the
Certificate of Origin
( Non-Preferential) being issued
by Agencies who are
listed in Appendic-4-C of the HBP Vol.I.
2. The Trade and
industry have represented that while
applying for Certificate of Origin (NP) to
an Agency listed in Appendix 4-C, at present,
they have to
provide the entire
details of the buyer
abroad in Col.2 of the
Certificate and only then
the certificate is
signed by the
authorized agency. By
disclosing the address
of the buyer abroad
and the details of product being exported,
etc, the confidential and sensitive business information becomes
public.
3. In order to address
the above difficulty being faced at
present by exporters, it has been
decided that exporters
making an application
to authorized Agencies for issue of
Certificate of Origin (NP),
may leave Column No. 2
of the Certificate blank
and this column
may be filled up after the
same is certified
and signed by the
authorized Agency competent to issue
such a Certificate.
This issues
with the approval of competent authority.
(M.K.Parimoo)
Joint Director General of Foreign Trade
(issued from F. No.1/94/180/116/AM-07/Pol-I )