Beneficiary's Certificate

Beneficiary's certificate is issued by exporter based on buyer or importer request. This kind of certificate is usually needs to issue especially for exportation to Europe union such as France. Almost our buyer from France requested this beneficiary's certificate that stated on the letter of credit or on the shipment manual they sent to us. However, not all buyer request us to provide this beneficiary's certificate. Some of them simply ask only packing list, invoice and bill of lading or air waybill to be provided.

There are various contents of beneficiary certificate. One buyer requested in different contents with another one. One of them ask us to issue a beneficiary's certificate of sending documents to a specific destination with a specific document and in a limit of time. Another one is requesting to provide the beneficiary's certificate of value contents of the goods to be shipped out. Or there is a buyer to mention on beneficiary's certificate doesn't contains a specific material to comply to their government's rules in importing any goods from around the globe.

For example we ever made a beneficiary's certificate for document sending with the the following contents :

"We beneficiary of Letter of Credit number certifying that : 

The following documents have been sent to the applicant's Indonesia office within ten days after shipment date :

1. Copy of commercial invoice.
2. Copy of packing list.
3. Copy of C/O Form A / GSP.
4. Copy of bill of lading or copy of air waybill.
5. Copy of AZO free coloring certificate.
6. Original certificate stating the exact composition of the goods.
7. Original certificate for item bearing accessories which contain nickel or original beneficiary certificate certifying that items do not bear accessories which contain nickel "

This is means that we have to send all above documents to buying agent within ten days after shipment date unless the discrepancy will comes up.

Concerning the beneficiary certificate of value content, we have made this kind of certificate with the following contents :

"We beneficiary of the following order certifying that the exact composition of the goods as follow:

Style number :

Order number :

Composition : "

This type of certificate showing the contents of the goods in " Composition"  for example we ever filled in with 100 percents of cotton for sweaters that the yarn's composition is cotton fiber.

We have ever made a beneficiary's certificate that mentioning no specific contents are found in the goods. The nickle is prohibit include to goods that exporting to France. The sample of this type of certificate as follow :

"We beneficiary of the following order certifying that below items:

Style number :

Order number :

Do not bear accessories which contain nickel. "

As a conclusion, a beneficiary's certificate is a statement from beneficiary or exporter to specific condition of the goods or shipment that are requested by buyer or importer for customs purpose to be going smoothly. Of course, shipper or exporter should respect in providing this document unless the discrepancy fee will came to exporter or beneficiary. In addition, the discrepancy will leads to the payment problem or even buyer will not be able to release the payment.

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