COO for industrial products - CEDEAO
The Ministry in charge of Industry issues through its General Directorate of Industrial Activity (DGAI) and the Directorate of Industrial Production and Competitiveness (DPIC) Certificates of Origin for products manufactured in Côte d’Ivoire and intended for export, including ECOWAS or UEMOA approved Certificates of Origin – see http://www.industrie.gouv.ci/?page=procedure_cerificat_origine.
The ECOWAS or UEMOA Certificate of Origin for approved products is used for intra-community trade in industrial products originating in the sub-region, giving the right to an exemption from customs duty applied to the goods in the country of destination.
Industrial companies established and producing in Côte d’Ivoire and approved under the ECOWAS (SLEC) or UEMOA trade liberalisation schemes.
Procedure for obtaining a Certificate of Origin for WAEMU /ECOWAS approved products
- Purchase of the WAEMU or ECOWAS Certificate of Origin form from the Direction of Administrative Affairs (DAF) of the Ministry in charge of Industry – see address above.
- Cost of the form : 1.000 FCFA / form. The forms are sold in booklets of 20 forms at a price of 20,000 FCFA.
- Form to be filled in and typed (sender, consignee, means of transport, official use, brand and numbers of packages, number and type of packages, criteria of origin, gross weight, number and date of invoice).
- The form should be submitted to the Direction of Industrial Production and Competitiveness (DPIC) of the Ministry in charge of Industry – see address above – together with a copy of the WAEMU /ECOWAS Free Trade Scheme (FTS) approval.
- Submission of forms from Monday to Friday between 7.30 am and 11 am / Withdrawal of forms between 2 pm and 5 pm within 24 hours after submission.
- Validity: 6 months.
For further information, please contact the ETLS Focal Point for Côte d’Ivoire:
Monsieur ATTE Doffou
Deputy Director of Industrial Cooperation at the Ministry in charge of Industry
Direct line: +225 22 41 72 78 – Mobile: +225 01 10 50 80
Email : doffoupaul@yahoo.fr
AND
Monsieur DJE KOUAME OLIVIER
Deputy Director for Regional Trade in the Ministry of African Integration and Ivorians Living Abroad
Tel : (+225) 09 21 32 34/ (+225) 04 01 20 46
E-mail : djekoli@yahoo.fr
- Decree n°2014-556 of 1 October 2014 on the organisation of the MIM.
- Additional Act n°04/96 of 10 May 1996 establishing a transitional preferential tariff regime for trade within the WAEMU.
- Additional Protocol n°III/2001 of 19 December 2001 instituting the rules of origin of WAEMU products.
- Regulation n°13/2002/CM/WAEMU of 19 September 2002 on the determination of the constituent elements of the community value added.
- Implementing Regulation No. 014/2002/COM/WAEMU of 13 December 2002, determining the modalities for requesting and issuing COs.
- Decision N°01/99/COM/WAEMU on the approval of industrial products to benefit from the Community Preferential Tax (CPT).
- Provisions of Articles 2, 32 4 and 10 of Protocol A/P1/1/03 relating to the definition of the concept of “originating products” of ECOWAS Member States, which stipulates that “the Community origin of products shall be attested by a Certificate of Origin (CO) specifying the conditions of origin provided for in this Protocol”.
- Regulation C/REG.4/4/02 on the adoption of a CO for products originating in the community.
- Order n°2469 MFAEP.PI. of 7 November 1964, empowering the Direction of Energy and Industrial Production