Certificate of Origin Markup Language (COML)

CrimsonLogic

Presented by Suresh Kumar Kantholy Trade and Logistics 24 June 2004

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Agenda
Certificate of Origin (CoO) Overview
What is CoO? Type of CoO

CoO Business Process

Workflow Roles and Responsibility Core Components

COML Methodology
Conceptual Model Spreadsheet Model Schemas Implementation Model

Difficulties Faced
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Certificate of Origin (CoO) Overview

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What is CoO?

A document, required by foreign governments, declaring that goods in a particular international shipment are of a certain origin

A signed statement as to the country of origin of the exported products for a particular shipment

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Type of CoO
Non-preferential CO
Used to distinguish foreign products from domestic products for the purpose of applying several other trade policy instruments, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties safeguard measures origin marking requirements discriminatory quantitative restrictions or tariff quotas rules on government procurement

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Type of CoO
Preferential CO
Employed in preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) and in the context of generalized systems of preferences (GSP) Prevents trade deflection to avoid products from non-preference receiving countries from being transshipped through a low-tariff PTA or GSP partner to a high-tariff one

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CoO Business Process

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Workflow

Seller

Authorized Organization

Bank/Embassy/ Insurance

Buyer/ Custom

apply

COO

receive

reject COO receive

receive

COO Response

query COO endorse COO COO

reject COO amend COO receive

endorse COO

COO

receive

COO Response

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Roles and Responsibility

Authorized Organization (AO)
A government agency / approved association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests in the region. An agreed entity that issues signatory certificates to organizations participating in this authorization system. Validates all the CO information provided by Exporter against the supporting documents like Bill of Lading, Invoice, etc.,

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Roles and Responsibility

Banks (Inland)
Banks play important role in Letter of credit negotiations. Letter of credit is a letter addressed by a bank, at the insurance and responsibility of a buyer of merchandise, to a seller, authorizing him to draw drafts to a stipulated amount under specified terms and undertaking conditionally or unconditionally to provide eventual payment for drafts.

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Roles and Responsibility

Embassy (Inland)
An official office of the ambassador of the foreign country, serves as the primary channel of communication between the two governments, negotiates treaties, and promotes economic and cultural exchange between home country and host country. Legalized CO documents. In real, some countries in the Middle East require Embassy endorsement, to restrict goods imported from the certain countries for political or other reasons.

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Roles and Responsibility

Insurance Firm
Insurance firms are financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance. In some countries, insurance firms likely to verify the goods value based on the shipment listed in Certificate of origin, & may evaluate the insurance value quoted by the seller.

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Core Component
Application Reference
Identifies the document during and after the stage of application

Issuance Country
Source of which the CoO is being certified

Prepared By Party
Person in-charge of filling-up the CoO information

Buyer Party
Person import/purchases goods through the international purchase and supply chain

Seller Party
Person that exports; originator or wholesaler of exported goods

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Core Component
Signatory Party
Authorized declarant who sign on CoO

Certificate of Origin Line

Describes the "commercial" information about the consignment between the Buyer and the Seller

Consignment Transport
Arrangement under which items are delivered by a consignor to a consignee to be resold or used and paid for by the consignee

AO Endorser Party
Body appointed by the government of a country who has the right to certify a CoO

Document Routing
Specifies information related to the conveyance of CoO

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Core Component
Supporting Document
Documents to support the verification process during endorsement by AO

Embassy Endorser Party

Embassy Officer who legalized CoO

Insurance Endorser Party

Provide insurance to the shipment

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COML Methodology

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Conceptual Model
DocumentRouting IssuanceCountry 0..* 1 ApplicationReference 1 1..* CertificateOfOriginLine 0..* SupportingDocument

PreparedByParty 1 0..1 EmbassyEndorserParty

Certificate Of Origin Application Package 1 ConsignmentTransport

0..1 InsuranceEndorserParty 1 AOEndorserParty 1 SellerParty 1 BuyerParty

1 SignatoryParty

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Spreadsheet Model

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Schemas

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Implementation Model

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Difficulties Faced

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Difficulties Faced
UBLish v1.0
UBLish does not include the document type for COApplication and COApplicationResponse

Digital Signature?

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Thank You

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