The Ministry of Production resolved to eliminate the Certificate of Origin as an instrument to prove the origin of the merchandise for consumption that enters from abroad, through the resolution 1288/2019 published this Tuesday (26.11.2019) in the Official Gazette.
The regulations specify that "foreign trade has been the subject of profound progress, 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 accreditation of origin of the merchandise generates delays and higher costs in the operation ”.
Consequently, it considered that "it is necessary to eliminate the certificate of origin as a mechanism to prove the origin of the products for statistical purposes“.
Thus the regulations indicated that documentary requirements will be required when the merchandise is subject to the application of anti-dumping or compensatory or specific duties or safeguard measuresa, also including imports subject to such treatments because they originate from countries that are not granted most-favored-nation treatment.
Further, established as a documentary requirement the presentation of the Sworn Declaration of Non-Preferential Origin, for the purposes of proving the origin at the time of clearance for final import destinations for consumption.
The Sworn Declaration of Non-Preferential Origin must be presented for the purposes of completing the dispatch process in the final import destinations for consumption of the goods reached, along with the rest of the required customs documentation.
For this, the interested parties must enter the Remote Processing Platform (TAD), through which they must generate the Declaration.
The Directorate of Origin of Goods will initiate a procedure of Investigation of Non-Preferential Origin on a certain tariff position from one or more origins, in the event of complaints from the private sector or inconsistencies noted by the General Directorate of Customs or the enforcement authority on the declared origin in the Sworn Declaration of Non-Preferential Origin.