Certificates of Origin (CoO) are an essential component of international trade. They confirm that the goods in a particular shipment have been wholly obtained, produced, manufactured, or processed in a particular country. CoOs may be requested by importing countries’ Customs Departments, importers, freight forwarders, or banks.

Check out the process below. You can expect the process to take 5 minutes per product. Part of the process will depend on how many products you need to register.

1. Register a new company
2. Register a new authorised signatory
3. Register goods and apply for your certificate of origin

Our TradeWindow Origin team will help get you up and running, including bulk updates when required.

Currently, certificates are required for the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, NZ China Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

AANZFTA is an agreement between ASEAN member states; Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, New Zealand and Australia.

CFTA is an Agreement between New Zealand and China.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a free trade agreement among the Asia-Pacific nations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

There are various certificate of origin options that are available through the Origin application. These include certificates for import countries following free trade agreements and requiring verification by an authorised body i.e., China Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) and ASEAN Australian New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP).

We can also provide Certificates of Australian and New Zealand Origin required for business to business transactions. These are certificates that are not mandated but can be used B2B or for Trade agreements that allow self-certification of origin.

TradeWindow Origin is authorised by the New Zealand Customs Service (under the Customs and Excise Regulations 1996) to issue Certificate of Origin in New Zealand for AANZFTA, CFTA, NZ-UKFTA and RCEP; and is authorised by JASANZ (on behalf of DFAT) for issuing Certificates of Origin under applicable FTAs in Australia for AANZFTA, ChAFTA, IA-CEPA, JAEPA, TAFTA, KAFTA, A-UKFTA and RCEP.

Within minutes, once data is submitted for certificates in the electronic form, where the goods have been pre-approved.

If a certificate is required in a manual format e.g., wet-stamped, the turnaround for these is one working day.  Our team can help you with these as required.

Once the Origin verifier approves the origin criteria and HS code for a good, all future shipments for that good into that particular FTA will be issued and approved whenever the relevant data is submitted to the Origin system

Origin criteria approval is valid for three years from the date of declaration. New goods submitted are validated by the Origin verifier as true and correct.

New goods approval will take up to one working day to approve providing all supporting documentation is supplied according to the specific requirements of the FTA.

We can help you with manual/wet stamp certificates too if that is what you need.  Contact our team at originsupport@tradewindow.io