THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF POST AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 01/2000/TT-TCBD
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Hanoi,
March 20, 2000
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CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE PRIME MINISTER’S DECISION No. 242/1999/QD-TTg OF DECEMBER
30, 1999 ON IMPORT-EXPORT MANAGEMENT IN 2000
In furtherance of the Prime
Minister’s
Decision No. 242/1999/QD-TTg of December 30, 1999 on import-export management
in 2000; After consulting and reaching agreement with the Ministry of Trade in
Official Dispatch No. 1131/TM-XNK of March 20, 2000, the General Department of
Post and Telecommunications hereby guides the implementation of Article 9 on
import and export of goods on the list of items subject to post and
telecommunications specialized management as follows:
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF IMPORT-EXPORT POST AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOODS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
1. Post and telecommunications
goods, equipment and supplies on the list subject to post and
telecommunications specialized management include those used exclusively on the
public and special-use post and telecommunications networks.
2. Import goods, equipment and
supplies on the list subject to post and telecommunications specialized
management stipulated in this Circular must fully satisfy the conditions,
technical standards and usage properties already defined and promulgated by the
General Department of Post and Telecommunications.
3. The General Department of
Post and Telecommunications shall neither grant permits nor ratify
import/export goods items, quantities and value.
4. Import goods, equipment and
supplies on the list subject to post and telecommunications specialized
management must be those in service of post and telecommunications operations
and services, which are permitted to be used, exploited and supplied in
Vietnam.
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- The compatibility with
Vietnamese technologies, post and telecommunications networks as well as the
technical norms and standards promulgated or permitted for application by the
State and/or the General Department of Post and Telecommunications;
- The State of the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam’
regulations on social order, safety, security and national defense;
- The State’ and General
Department of Post and Telecommunications’regulations on conditions for import, export and
trading of post and telecommunications goods;
- The users’interests.
II. LIST AND STANDARDS OF IMPORT GOODS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES SUBJECT
TO POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIZED MANAGEMENT
II.1. Telecommunications goods,
equipment and supplies
No.
List
Standards
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Exchanges of big and small
capacity, network access equipment
TCVN 68-146: 1995
TCN 68-179: 1999
ITU
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Private automatic branch
exchanges (PABX)
TCN 68-136: 1995
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Transmission equipment
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TCN 68-139: 1995
ITU
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Optic fiber cables
TCN 68-160: 1996
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Communication metal cables
TCN 68-132: 1998
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TCN 68-143: 1995
and Decision No.
622/1999/QD-TCBD – 13/9/1999
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ISDN terminal equipment
TCN 68-155: 1995
8.1
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters with frequency band of from 9 KHx to 400 GHx and
capacity of 60 mw or more
ITU
8.1.1
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ITU
8.1.2
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for television broadcasting
ITU
8.1.3
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for radio broadcasting
ITU
8.1.4
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for standard roadcasting
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ITU
8.1.5
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for location and remote measurement
ITU
8.1.6
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for satellite communication
(excluding mobile equipment used in navigation and aviation)
ITU
8.1.7
Amateur radio transmitters,
receivers- transmitters
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8.1.8
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for navigation mobile operations
(including support equipment and satellite equipment)
ITU
8.1.9
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used exclusively for aviation mobile operations
(including support equipment and satellite equipment)
ITU
8.2
Radar, radio aid equipment and
radio remote control equipment
ITU
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Radar
ITU
8.2.2
Radio transmitters,
receivers-transmitters used for aeronautical navigation service
ITU
8.2.3
Radio warning and remote
control equipment
ITU
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ITU
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Facsimile machines
ITU
11
Pagers
TCN 68-147: 1995
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Mobile phones
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ITU
13
Low-speed videophones
TCN 68-154: 1995
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Automatic telephones (fixed)
TCN 68-134: 1994
Notes:
- ITU: International Telecommunication
Union
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In addition to the above-listed
goods, units and enterprises that have registered their business with suitable
business lines and import/export enterprise codes may import goods according to
their demands.
The export of goods items on the
list subject to post and telecommunications specialized management at the
foreign partners’
requests as agreed upon under conditions in the import contracts shall not have
to satisfy all conditions, technical standards and usage properties defined and
promulgated by the General Department of Post and Telecommunications.
II.2. Postage stamps:
1. Postage stamps:
- Perforated and non-perforated
stamps
- Perforated and non-perforated
stamp blocs
2. Stamp prints:
- Commemorative stamps
- Aerograms
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- Philately first-day cover
(FDC)
- Prepaid postcards
- Maximum cards
3. Stamp articles: Documents
illustrated with postage stamps, objects using postage stamps.
III. IMPORT-EXPORT CONDITIONS
III.1. Post and
telecommunications goods, equipment and supplies
- Before an importation, a
standard compatibility certificate issued by the General Department of Post and
Telecommunications according to the standards mentioned in Section II.1 is
required. The procedures for standard compatibility certificate issuance shall
comply with the General Department of Post and Telecommunications’ regulations.
- For import goods being radio
transmitters, receiver-transmitters, radar, radio support equipment and radio
remote control equipment, their frequencies or frequency channels must be approved
by the General Department of Post and Telecommunications in strict compliance
with the frequency planning under the Prime Minister’s Decision
No.85/1998/QD-TTg of April 16, 1998 ratifying the plan on radio frequency
allocation for professional operations in Vietnam and they must have technical
properties compatible with the ITU standards as well as the General Department
of Post and Telecommunications’
approval reflected in the standard compatibility certificate.
- For the import of post and
telecommunications goods, equipment and/or supplies into Vietnam for display
and/or demonstration, accompanying foreign delegations on visits to Vietnam at
the official invitations of Vietnamese agencies or organizations, the standard
compatibility certificate is not required, but there must be approval of the
General Department of Post and Telecommunications or the competent State
bodies.
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1. Postage stamps used for
postal service business, philatelic stamps being the live ones (without
cancellation seal):
- Only units and enterprises
licensed to trade in postal services may import and/or export such stamps
- Before the importation or
exportation, a written consent of the General Department of Post and
Telecommunications is required.
2. For philatelic stamps (with
cancellation seal), except for the live ones stipulated at Point 1 of this
Section, the licensed business units and enterprises may import them according
to their demands.
3. Postage stamps and stamp
articles banned from import and export:
- Postage stamp articles which
have been suspended from issuance or withdrawn by order of the General
Department of Post and Telecommunications
- Postage stamp articles banned
from circulation by the General Department of Post and Telecommunications
- Postage stamp articles with
unhealthy contents that incite or cause hostility between nationalities,
contrarily to the Vietnamese customs and laws.
- Postage stamp articles already
warned of by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the International Philatelic Federation
(FIP) or the Asian Philatelic Federation (FIAP) and banned from participation
in international stamp exhibitions.
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IV. IMPLEMENTATION PROVISION
This Circular takes effect as
from April 1st, 2000; in the course of implementation, if any problems arise,
the relevant State management agencies as well as the post and
telecommunications goods importers/exporters should promptly report them to the
General Department of Post and Telecommunications for consideration and
settlement.
FOR THE GENERAL DIRECTOR OF POST AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR
Tran Duc Lai