What are Egyptian origin rules and How to get the origin certificate?

What are Egyptian origin rules and How to get the origin certificate?

The rules of origin are the laws, systems and administrative regulations which are applied by a member to determine the country of origin, provided that the rules of origins have no relations with contracting or independent system which grant tariff preferential treatments.

The rules of origin include all the used rules of origin such as preferential political trade tools and non-preferential trade policy tools.

The origin of commodity: It is the place or country where commodity is produced or the last produced or where an essential change happened. Commodities from Egyptian origin are considered Egyptian in the following cases:

a- The products obtained completely from Egypt.

b- The products obtained from Egypt but their components are not originally Egyptian, provided that the local value added is not less than 40% (Arab), 50% (European) and 60% (Islamic) in accordance with the different agreements.

c- Process or transforming is not enough to grant the quality of origin whether the tariff item of the product is changed or not:-

1- The necessary measures for keeping commodities in good condition during transportation or storage such as (ventilation, drying, freezing, salting and preserving).

2- Simple operations which include garbling, cleaning up, sorting out, labeling, coordinating, washing, colouring, cutting, packing and parceling.

3- Simple operations for packing in bottles, flasks, bags, boxes and simple operations packaging .

4- Putting Trademarks or data or other similar marks on products or on the cover.

5- Simple mixing operations for products even if they are from different kind.

6- Simple collection of commodities parts to produce afinal product.

7- Combining two operations or more from (A) TO (Z).

8- Slaughtering animals.

How to get the Egyptian origin certificate?

Firstly:                

The exporter presents the application of origin (model 8-repeated) to issue the certificate of origin. The employer increase checks the certificate of customs measure after finishing the aviation exports or checking the customs release permission in shipping.

1- Bill of lading

2- Sale invoice.

3- The approval of the specific authority if it is available.

4- The exporter's admission on special publications about the percentage of the local product.

5- The certificate of origin (its type can be identified according to the import country. It should be written in English or in the language of the import country unless the credit doesn't include this).

It is important that the application's data and documents should be identical.

Secondly :

The certificate of origin can be issued before shipment, export and before completing the aforementioned documents. This is important to enable the exporter to ratify and send the certificate with the exported shipment. This requires getting an exception from the origin authority an presenting it with the other documents. He obliges to present the rest of documents later.

Thirdly :

 In all cases of issuing the certificate of origin, the general authority for controlling exports and imports demands an admission on the applicant (model 8). This model indicates that the applicant didn't issue the certificate of origin from this authority or from any other branch concerning this shipment. Anyway, the exporter should contact directly with the agent to enable himself knowing the progress of his success or what are the reasons of becoming hindered in the market.