What Is the Country of Origin Certificate?
What Is the Importance of the Country of Origin
Certificate?
What Are the Types of the Country of Origin
Certificate?
What Is Included on a Certificate of Origin?
How To Get a Paper Certificate of Origin?
Certificate of Origin Required for Which Countries?
Free Trade Agreement Certificates of Origin
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COO is international trade documents
certifying that the goods, particularly
exporting shipments, were wholly produced,
sourced, or processed in a specific country.
What Is the Country of
Origin Certificate?
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What Is the Importance of COO?
It attests to the product's origin, which
serves as the foundation for determining
the tariffs & other trade restrictions that
will be applied.
It certifies to customs that the goods are
eligible for reduced taxes or import duties.
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What Are the
Types of the COO?
Detail requirements for COO
types depend on the exported
or imported goods and where
they go
Non-Preferential COs
Preferential COs
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Non-Preferential COs
Non-preferential CO, known as "ordinary CO,"
indicates that the goods aren't eligible for
tax relief or exemption under trade
agreements between countries.
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Preferential COs
Preferential CO indicates reduced
tariffs or free trade agreements
between countries
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What Is Included
on a COO?
The manufacturer & contact information
The exporting agent's name & contact
information
Name & contact information of import or
receiver agent
Product description
Product quantity, size & weight
Bill of lading or lading number bill
Item transport means & route information
Dated commercial invoice
Remarks or additional notes
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How To Get a
Paper COO?
Step 1. Complete & notarize relevant
affidavit
Step 2. Submit the manufacturer's or
commercial invoice
Step 3. Fill in the certificate of origin
Step 4: Submit the notarized affidavit, COO
& associated invoice
Step 5. Specify the document to be
stamped
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Ship from the European Union to a country with
an EU trade agreement
use a EUR.1 document or EUR-
MED document
Ship between Canada, the US & Mexico
use a EUR.1 document or EUR-
MED document
Ship between the US, Central America & the
Dominican Republic
use a CAFTA-DR certificate of
origin
Ship to some countries in the Middle East & Africa a COO is often required
Ship to some countries in Asia (China, India,
Malaysia or Singapore)
a COO is often required
Certificate of Origin Required for Which Countries?

Free Trade Agreement
COO
Free trade agreements with
other countries in the United
States can require exporters to
issue certain proof of origin
forms.
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