The Directorate General of Foreign Trade announced on 7 September 2026 that eligible exporters can connect their business software to its certificate-of-origin system through an Open API facility on Trade Connect.
The ministry's release describes three APIs: authentication, application submission and certificate retrieval, and verification of issued certificates. It says the facility supports preferential and non-preferential certificates of origin.
The problem it addresses is duplicate entry. The same application details may already sit in an exporter's accounting or enterprise resource planning software, but previously had to be entered separately on the DGFT platform. The announced interface transfers that data electronically.
For example, an exporter with application data in its accounting system could investigate sending those fields through the interface rather than entering them again. This example describes the announced workflow; GazetteIntel has not tested the API.
What is confirmed
PIB release 2307462 announces the facility and points to Trade Notice 25/2026-27, dated 7 September 2026.
What is not confirmed
A particular exporter's eligibility, integration cost, production reliability or demand for a paid connector. We have not audited the technical manual.
Our reading, not a promised opportunity
This is a defined integration task for export-software builders because the release names both the repeated data-entry problem and the interface intended to remove it. It is not a procurement notice or proof that customers will pay. The next check is the official Trade Connect registration material and the notice's help manual, followed by a conversation with an exporter who uses this workflow.
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PRID-2307561 · Collected web text · Not OCR
DGFT certificate-of-origin API announcement
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यह सुविधा अब पात्र निर्यातकों और उनके सिस्टम के लिए उपलब्ध है।English reading aid
The facility is now available to eligible exporters and their systems.
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Next source checks: Trade Connect registration materialTrade notice and help manual (linked by PIB; not audited here)