About manufacturer’s name in box 7 of C/O FORM E.

Question: We are going to import led from China. Our manufacturer said that they could ask for Form E, however another Chinese company is named in box of C/O Form E. So could you let us know if this C/O Form E is valid?

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you!

Answer:

Your case is very popular when we work with Chinese company.

In some cases, small Chinese companies have no function export and they can’t ask for C/O Form E (only Form E in China) by themselve and they hire another company to do this task who is named in box 1 of Form E and manufacturer’name in box 7 of Form E.

Current regulations on this problem are as follows:

According to Article 3 in the Official Dispatch No. 113 / XNK-XXHH dated March 4, 2014: “The person’s name in the box 1: The contries agree that authorized person ask for C/O who is not showed as the  munufacturer’s name in box 1 of C/O Form E. The exporter’s name in box 1 have to match to the name in commercial invoice, except for the third party invoicing.” According to the Official Letter No. 5467 / TCHQ-GSQL dated September 16, 2016 of the General Department of Customs, the problem of writing the authorizing information on C/O form E: “The person’s name in the box 1 of the C/O form E is the exporter and also the issuer’s name of the invoice, except the invoice is issued by a third party ”

Thus, if the name in box 1 is not exporter, you have to be marked box “Third party invoicing”.

However, accroding to current regulation of China (with our experiens during the past time): Chinese authorities only marked “Third party invoicing” when the exporter is not a Chinese company.

Therefore, in your case, this C/O will be rejected by Vietnam Customs.

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