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Know about the Importance of Certificate of Origin in Imports

Certificate of Origin is known to be an important document for the import customs clearance in maximum importing countries.

In accordance with the government policies of some countries and also the unilateral and bilateral agreements between the countries, import duty could be exempted under specified goods from a few countries. As per the consumption and availability of the goods, some goods are imposed by import duty for the sake of importing of such goods. Duties are levied on goods that would be importing various other countries due to the political policies. Hence, the importance of confirming the origin of the goods plays a very important role in the international trade between the countries.

Certificate of origin is known to be a document that certifies the origin of the country where the exports are originally manufactured and acquired. In many cases, the buyer would only need the certificate that is issued by the locally based Chamber of Commerce. In some other cases, the buyer needs to get generalised system of preference that is issued by the export council works of the respective country. When issuing the certificate of origin, the commercial invoice copy will also be attested by some authorities.

Normally when the goods are required to be exported from Australia to other countries, it requires being declared as the export declaration in case the value of the goods exceed AUD 2000 or if they are in need of an export permit, no matter what their value is. There are certain goods that do not need an export declaration and they include goods that value not more than AUD 2000, pets, personal effects, goods that are provisionally imported under the section 162A of the Customs Act 1901, Australian aircraft and the ship spares, Australian post or diplomatic bags of mail, domestic cargo containers of Australia for International carriage of ship and cargo stores and the military goods of any value that are considered the property of the Australian Government for the usage of overseas by the Australian Defence forces. The export declaration provides the customs with the details about the goods that requires export. The export declaration provides the customers with all the details of goods that are required to be exported. Thereafter the ICS issues the Export declaration number once accepted and this consists of 9 alphanumeric characters.

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