Streamlined compliance and space for processing in multiple States
The trade agreements concluded or negotiated by the EU in recent years focus on simplification.
New generation trade agreements have changed the way preferential origin is proven, with the traditional EUR.1 certificate being replaced. Economic operators are now directly responsible for guaranteeing a reliable organisation, and can use two methods to request preferential tariff treatment: a declaration of origin made by an authorised exporter registered in the Rex system, or based on the "importer's knowledge".
The Rex system, launched in 2017, allows exporters to self-certify the preferential origin of products. Some trade agreements also allow for cumulation of origin, which considers processing in multiple partner countries, and some, like the one with Indonesia, may establish a diagonal cumulation area with other ASEAN countries.
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