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Export: Do You Want To To The EU?

The document discusses the European Union's Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP), which allows developing countries to export goods to the EU while paying lower import duties. It provides information on rules of origin requirements to qualify for preferential tariffs under the GSP. Key points covered include origin criteria, cumulation rules, transport conditions, minimal processing operations, product-specific rules, and documentation needed like certificates of origin or invoice declarations to prove preferential origin when exporting to the EU.

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Export: Do You Want To To The EU?

The document discusses the European Union's Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP), which allows developing countries to export goods to the EU while paying lower import duties. It provides information on rules of origin requirements to qualify for preferential tariffs under the GSP. Key points covered include origin criteria, cumulation rules, transport conditions, minimal processing operations, product-specific rules, and documentation needed like certificates of origin or invoice declarations to prove preferential origin when exporting to the EU.

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Do you want to

export to the EU?


Export Helpdesk is the right tool to use.
Generalised Scheme of Preferences
Handicrafts
Trade
The “Generalised Scheme of Preferences” (GSP) is a set of rules
allowing exporters from developing countries to pay lower duties
on some or all of what they sell to the EU.
To check if your case can benefit from the GSP, visit the Export
Helpdesk website: www.exporthelp.europa.eu under “My Export”.
To benefit from the GSP, you will have to prove that your product
“originates” in your country.

What is ‘origin’ and what are the rules


of origin for?
Origin is the ‘economic’ nationality of goods To benefit from a GSP preferential tariff when
traded in commerce. exporting to the EU, refer to the GSP’s rules of
origin applying to your type of handicraft.
It is the origin that determines which duties
apply to your product when it enters the EU Be aware that the rules of origin applied to
market. each country are not identical in all cases.

The rules of origin are used to determine


whether a product may be considered as
sufficiently linked to the country from which
it is exported to say that it ‘originates’ from
there.

Basic concepts of rules of origin


Goods wholly obtained
in your country

Production does not involve any country other Three basic criteria determine if a product was
than your own. sufficiently transformed in your country.

For instance, a leather artice produced in ■■ Value added rule: compare the price of the
your country originates there when all the materials not originating in your country
components used in this article have been with the ex-work price of your final product.
completely manufactured there.
■■ Change of tariff classification: compare the
Goods sufficiently transformed product code (four-digit tariff classification)
in your country of the materials not originating in your
country with the product code of your
Production involves more than your country. goods.

The EU rules of origin define — for each ■■ Specific operations: you should carry out
product — the degree of processing that the quoted processing.
must be carried out in your country to claim
originating status. In some cases, the applicable rule may involve
a combination of the above criteria.
Cumulation
Cumulation allows you to claim originating ■■ Cumulation with the EU: materials
status for components that do not originate originating in the EU can be used in
in your country, but are used in the production your product and then considered as
process in your country. originating in your country as long as
the processing done locally goes beyond
Under the GSP, the following types of minimal.
cumulation are possible:
■■ Cumulation with countries having a free
■■ Cumulation among your region: trade agreement with the EU: materials
materials originating in your regional originating in countries having a free
group can be used in your product and trade agreement with the EU can be used
then considered as originating in your in your product and then considered as
country. The GSP regional groups are: originating in your country as long as
the processing done locally goes beyond
■■ Group I: Brunei-Darussalam, Cambodia, minimal. You can find the updated list
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, of countries at the Export Helpdesk. This
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam type of cumulation applies only after the
EU has authorised a request from your
■■ Group II: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa country.
Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, ■■ Cumulation with Norway, Switzerland
Venezuela and Turkey: non-agricultural materials
originating in Norway, Switzerland and
■■ Group III: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Turkey can be used in your product and
Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka then considered as originating in your
country as long as the processing done
■■ Group IV: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay locally goes beyond minimal.
and Uruguay.

Cumulation can also be applied between


individual countries in groups I and III, upon
request, and in certain circumstances. A list
of eligible countries and excluded products is
available in the Export Helpdesk.
Direct transport Submitting proof
or non-manipulation of origin
Upon request, your importer must be able To claim the tariff preference, you need to
to prove to EU customs authorities that the prove that your handicraft originates in your
handicraft bought to you and originating in country and fulfils all conditions. For this, you
your country hasn’t been altered elsewhere need one of the following documents.
before arriving in the EU.
■■ Certificate of Origin Form A: this is
You need to verify that your product has been needed for consignments valued more than
sent from your country to the EU without being 6000€ and it is issued by your country’s
altered or transformed in another country. If authorities. You can download the template
your product “transit” in another country, it at the Export Helpdesk. Be prepared to
must not be altered or separated and it has to submit documents proving the originating
be under the vigilance of customs authorities. status of your handicraft.

Invoice declaration: for consignments


Minimal operations
■■
valued 6000€ or less, you can fill out a
declaration. To make an invoice declaration,
To claim originating status the production you should type, stamp or print the
steps carried out in your country must go following declaration on the invoice,
beyond the minimal operations listed in the delivery note or other commercial
agreement, such as packaging, colouring, or document:
labelling. If only the steps listed were carried
out in your country and nothing else was
produced or transformed there, the handicraft ‘The exporter of the products covered by
cannot be considered as originating in your this document (customs authorisation No …)
country. declares that, except where otherwise clearly
indicated, these products are of the Generalised
The full list of minimal operations is available Scheme of Preferences preferential origin’.
at the Export Helpdesk.

Important: You must date and sign your


Specific rules declaration by hand.

for handicrafts Proofs of origin remain valid for 10 months


after issue.
All products have specific rules of origin. For
details, do a search in the ‘My Export’ section
of the Export Helpdesk.

Tolerance
Handicrafts containing materials whose import
is limited or forbidden by the product specific
rule may still be used if they do not exceed
15% of the product’s ex-work price.

See also the special tolerance rates for textiles.


How to export to the EU?
Check it at www.exporthelp.europa.eu
KI-10-11-370-EN-C
The European Union (EU) is the world’s largest single
market. Therefore, many exporters around the world
want to export their products to the EU to meet the
large consumer demand.

Sometimes, however, exporters feel that they lack


information on how to export to the EU and how to
meet EU norms. Yet the information is there!

Indeed, with the Export Helpdesk, you can find all the
facts and figures you need: information, forms and
contacts.

The challenge is there.


Interested in accessing the European market?
Check the Export Helpdesk at www.exporthelp.europa.eu

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