Certificate of Origin for Indonesian Charcoal: Types, Issuers and Preferential Forms

By Mohamad Sinno, Charcoal Expert · Last updated 24 July 2026

An Indonesian charcoal shipment's certificate of origin is Form B — the non-preferential form for every destination — unless the buyer claims preference under a trade agreement.

Indonesian charcoal ships on Form B unless your buyer claims a preferential form

Exports of Indonesian coconut shell charcoal travel on a non-preferential certificate of origin, Form B, unless the buyer is claiming preference under a free trade agreement — in which case that agreement's own form is issued instead. Form B attests that the goods originate in Indonesia.

We issue ours as an e-COO through Indonesia's e-SKA system, endorsed by KADIN. It is one document in a per-shipment set; the DG document stack a charcoal shipment travels with carries the dangerous goods declaration, MSDS and vanning survey alongside it.

KADIN is one authorised IPSKA route, not the issuer

Indonesia's certificate of origin is issued by an IPSKA agency — an Instansi Penerbit Surat Keterangan Asal appointed by the Ministry of Trade — and filed through the ministry's e-SKA system. KADIN chapters are among the authorised issuing agencies, not the single national issuer.

So the issuing chamber buyers expect — KADIN — is one route among several: ask which IPSKA endorses a supplier's certificate, not whether it names KADIN. An authorised body must stamp it; the exporter cannot self-certify origin.

The type table: which form, when it is used, and where it goes

Indonesian exporters issue one of two form types: the non-preferential Form B, valid for any destination, or an agreement-specific preferential COO, issued only when the importer claims preference under that agreement.

Form B is the non-preferential certificate, and it is valid for every destination

Indonesia's non-preferential certificate of origin is the Certificate of Origin Form B, which the customs authority records as being used for exports to all destination countries (DJBC, updated August 2023).

It is issued under Trade Minister Regulation (Permendag) 24/2018, still in force as amended — most recently by Permendag 34/2023, effective 10 December 2023 (Indonesia's legal register, JDIH BPK; as of July 2026). Each preferential form, by contrast, runs under its own trade agreement.

On a UN 1361 container the certificate has to agree with the rest of the file

The goods description and consignee details on the certificate of origin have to reconcile with the rest of the container's paperwork, because a destination broker reads them together. Charcoal ships as UN 1361, Class 4.2, PG III. As it appears on the bill of lading, ours reads UN 1361, CARBON, ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE ORIGIN (coconut shell charcoal), Class 4.2, PG III. Four documents must carry a description that agrees with it:

• The commercial invoice
• The export declaration (PEB)
• The bill of lading
• The dangerous goods declaration

how the charcoal dangerous goods declaration states the same shipment walks the proper shipping name, class and packing group. The certificate states what was shipped; what a vanning survey records at stuffing records what actually went in — a gap between them surfaces at the destination.

The HS heading is where a charcoal mismatch usually shows

The field most likely to disagree is the HS heading. Coconut shell charcoal sits in heading 4402, "wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal)"; the WCO Explanatory Notes put charcoal from carbonised coconut shells there (WCO Harmonized System, 2022 edition), and HS 2022 added subheading 4402.20 for shell or nut charcoal. Our proforma invoices declare 4402.90.00.00.01; 4402.20 is the technically-correct shell/nut subheading, one we have not migrated to. The same code must appear on the certificate, the invoice and the export declaration — a destination duty rate is the importer's broker to confirm.

Matching the certificate to your destination

Which certificate a shipment needs is decided by the destination: if a trade agreement covers the lane and the importer claims under it, that agreement's form is issued; otherwise it travels on Form B. The duty treatment link runs through the agreement, not the paper.

The preferential forms we issue on request follow the buyer's claim: an IA-CEPA COO or DAB into Australia, an AIFTA Form AI into India, an IUAE-CEPA Form IUAE into the UAE. Everywhere else, the shipment goes on Form B. Some destinations add a legalization step, and which agreement actually lowers duty is a country-by-country question — both for the importer's broker to confirm against local destination requirements. The same identity carries across the pack: the 14-day weathering certificate and what it must show and the coconut charcoal MSDS and the right CAS number both repeat the classification the certificate names.

Holding the form is not the same as qualifying for preference

A preferential certificate of origin is evidence that goods qualify, not an entitlement to reduced duty. Three things still have to hold: the goods meet that agreement's rules of origin, the agreement is in force for the lane, and the importer claims preference correctly on entry.

Miss any one and the entry is assessed at the ordinary rate, whatever form travelled with it — the classic dispute a buyer opens against a supplier who promised "duty-free paperwork." We issue it with the rest of the per-shipment document set and can advise which form a lane needs before booking — WhatsApp +628213924038.

This page is general information on charcoal export documentation, not legal, customs or trade-preference advice. Confirm current form requirements and rules of origin with your customs broker or the destination authority before shipping.