THE
MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No.
17/2008/TT-BCT
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Hanoi,
December 12, 2008
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CIRCULAR
PROVIDING
GUIDANCE ON AUTOMATIC IMPORT LICENSING FOR A NUMBER OF COMMODITY ITEMS
Pursuant to the Government's
Decree No. 189/2007/ND-CP of December 27, 2007, defining the functions, tasks,
powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 12/2006/ND-CP of January 23, 2006,
detailing the implementation of the Commercial Law regarding international
goods trading and goods trading agency, processing and transit with foreign
parties;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 41/2005/QD-TTg of March 2, 2005,
promulgating the Regulation on goods import licensing;
The Ministry of Industry and Trade guides automatic import licensing for a
number of commodity items as follows;
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Importers of goods on the
List specified in Appendix 1 to this Circular must possess automatic import
licenses granted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
2. An automatic import license
shall be granted to a trader by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the form
of certification of the trader's application for import registration for each
goods lot. Particularly for goods imported via land border gates or imported
from non-tariff areas (including bonded warehouses) into the inland, their
import registration shall be certified within 30 days.
3. Goods imported in the
following cases are not governed by this Circular and must comply with current
regulations:
- Goods temporarily imported for
re-export, temporarily exported for re-import, transferred out of border gate
or transited.
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- Goods imported directly for
production and processing (including goods imported for assembly, repair or
warranty).
- Goods imported from abroad
into non-tariff areas (including bonded warehouses), and goods produced,
processed or assembled in non-tariff areas which are imported into the inland.
- Goods imported for trading at
duty-free shops.
- Goods imported for the
formation of fixed assets of investment projects under the Investment Law.
4. When carrying out import
procedures, a trader shall produce to the customs office an automatic import
registration application already certified by the Ministry of Industry and
Trade, enclosed with the import dossier set undercurrent regulations, and
observe regulations on policies applicable to imported goods, exported goods,
goods subject to specialized management and goods subject to conditional
trading.
II. REGISTRATION FOR
AUTOMATIC IMPORT LICENSING
1. A dossier of registration for
automatic import licensing comprises:
- A written application for
automatic import registration: 2 copies, made according to the form in Appendix
2 to this Circular (not printed herein).
- The business registration
certificate, the investment certificate or the business license: one copy
(appended with the trader's true copy mark).
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- L/C, payment document or
via-bank payment certification (enclosed with a written request for via-bank
payment certification), made according to the form in Appendices 3(A) and 3(B)
(not printed herein): one copy (appended with the trader's true copy mark).
- Bill of lading or
transportation document for the goods lot: one copy (appended with the trader's
true copy mark).
In case import registration is
certified within a certain time limit (for goods imported via road border gates
or imported from non-tariff areas or bonded warehouses), the bill of lading or
transportation document is not required but the report on the import (made
according to the form in Appendix 4 - not printed herein) of the certified
previous import registration application is required
2. Places of receipt of dossiers
of registration for automatic import licensing:
Traders shall send dossiers of
registration for automatic import licensing to:
- The Industry and Trade
Ministry's headquarters at 54 Hai Ba Trung street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi
city.
- The Industry and Trade
Ministry representative office's headquarters at 45 Tran Cao Van, Ward 6,
District III, Ho Chi Minh City.
3. Time limit for automatic
import licensing:
An automatic import license
shall be granted within 5 working days from the date the Ministry of Industry
and Trade receives a trader's complete and valid dossier.
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III. IMPLEMENTATION
PROVISIONS
1. This Circular takes effect 21
days after its publication in "CONG BAO."
2. Automatic import licenses
granted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade prior to January I, 2009. under
the Industry and Trade Ministry's Decision No. 24/2008/QD-BCT of August I,
2008, on automatic import licensing for a number of commodity items, are still
valid according to the certified contents.
3. Concerned traders and
organizations should report in writing problems arising in the course of
implementation of this Circular to the Ministry of Industry and Trade for
timely settlement.
FOR
THE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE
VICE MINISTER
BUI XUAN KHU
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Description
Chapter
33
Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery,
cosmetic or toilet preparations
3303
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Perfumes and toilet waters
3304
Beauty or make-up preparations
and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), including
sunscreen or suntan preparations: manicure or pedicure preparations
3305
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Preparations for use on the
hair
3306
Preparations for oral or
dental hygiene, including denture fixative pastes and powders: yarn used to
clean between the teeth (dental floss), in individual retail packages
3307
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Pre-shave. shaving or
after-shave preparations, personal deodorants, bath preparations,
depilatories and other perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, not
elsewhere specified or included; prepared room deodorizers, whether or not
perfumed or having disinfectant properties
Chapter
39
Plastics and articles thereof
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Baths, shower-baths, sinks,
wash-basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and
similar sanitary ware, of plastics (except HS heading 3922 90 11 00)
3924
Tableware, kitchenware, other
household articles and toilet articles, of plastics (except HS heading 3924
90 10 00.)
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Chapter
69
Ceramic and porcelain products
6910
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6911
Tableware, kite hen ware,
other household articles and toilet articles, of porcelain or china
6912
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Chapter
70
Glass and glassware
7013
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Glassware of a kind used for
table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similar purposes (other
than that of heading 70.10 or 70.18)
Chapter
73
Articles of iron or steel
7321
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Stoves, ranges, grates,
cookers (including those with subsidiary boilers for central heating),
barbecues, braziers, gas-rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric
domestic appliances, and parts thereof, of iron or steel (except heading 7321
90)
7323
Table, kitchen or other
household articles and parts thereof, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot
scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or
steel
7324
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Sanitary ware and parts
thereof, of iron or steel
Chapter
76
Aluminum and articles thereof
7615
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Table, kitchen or other
household articles and parts thereof, of aluminum; pot scourers and scouring
or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of aluminum; sanitary ware and parts
thereof, of aluminum
Chapter
84
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery
and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
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10
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- - Water pumps
8413
70
22
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---Impulse-turbo water pumps
of a capacity not exceeding 100 W, of a kind for household use
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51
- - Table, floor, wall, window,
ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of an output not
exceeding 125 W:
8415
10
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- Window or wall types,
self-contained or "split-system":
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81
91
10
- - - - Of an output exceeding
21.1 kW but not exceeding 26.38 kW
8415
81
99
10
- - - - -Of an output not
exceeding 21.1 kW
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81
99
20
- - - - -Of an output
exceeding 21.1 kW but not exceeding.26.38 kW
8415
82
90
10
- - - -Of an output not exceeding
26.38 kW
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83
90
10
- - - -Of an output not
exceeding 26.38 kW
8418
10
10
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- - For domestic use
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21
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- - Compression-type
8418
29
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- - Other
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30
00
10
- - Not exceeding 200 liters
capacity
8418
40
00
10
- - Not exceeding 200 liters
capacity
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11
10
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- - - For domestic use
8419
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10
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- - - For domestic use
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81
- - For making hot drinks or for
cooking or heating food:
8421
12
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- - Clothes-dryers
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21
11
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- - - - Filtering machinery
and apparatus for domestic use
8421
21
21
- - - - Filtering machinery
and apparatus for domestic use:
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- - For filtering or purifying
beverages other than water:
8422
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- - For domestic use:
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31
- - Machines with two or three
combined functions as printer, photocopier or fax machine, which can be connected
to automatic data processors or to the network:
8443
32
- - Other, which can be
connected to automatic data processors or to the network (except HS
subheading 84.43.32.50.00)
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- - Other:
8450
Household or laundry-type
washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry (except HS
subheadings 84.50.20.00 and 84.50.90)
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21
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- - Each of a dry linen
capacity not exceeding 10 kg
8451
80
10
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- - For domestic use
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10
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- Electronic calculators
capable of operation without an external source of electric power and
pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with
calculating functions
8470
21
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- - Incorporating a printing
device
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29
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- - Other
8470
30
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- Other calculating machines
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30
10
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- - Personal digital
assistants (PDAs)
8471
30
20
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- - Portable computers, including
notebooks and sub-notebooks
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30
90
90
- - - Other
8471
41
10
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- - - Personal computers,
other than portable computers of
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8471
41
90
90
- - - - Other
8471
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10
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8471
49
90
90
- - - - Other
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Electrical machinery and
equipment; and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image
and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such
articles
8508
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- - Of a capacity not
exceeding 1,500 W, with dust-containing bags or other containers of a
capacity not exceeding 20 liters
8508
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- - - For domestic us
8509
Electro-mechanical domestic
appliances, with self-contained electric motors (except HS heading 85.09.90)
8510
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Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing
appliances, with self-contained electric motor (except HS heading
85.10.90.00.00)
8516
Electric instantaneous or
storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus
and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for
example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers:
electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for
domestic purposes; electric heating resistors other than those of heading
85.45 (except HS headings 8516 40 10 00, 8516 80 and 85 16 90)
8517
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- - Line telephone sets with
cordless handsets
8517
12
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00
- - Telephones for cellular
networks or telephones used for other cordless networks
8518
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19
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- - - Other microphones,
whether or not with their stands
8518
10
90
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- - - Other
8518
21
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- - Single loudspeakers,
mounted in their enclosures
8518
22
00
00
- - Multiple loudspeakers, mounted
in the same enclosure
8518
29
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- - - Box assembly speakers
8518
30
- Headphones and earphones,
whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a
microphone and one or more loudspeakers:
8518
40
90
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- - Oilier
8518
50
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90
- - Other
8519
30
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- Record-players (maybe with
recording apparatus) without amplifiers and loudspeakers
8519
81
10
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- - - Pocket-size cassette-recorders,
of a size not exceeding 170 mm x 100 mm x 45 mm
8519
81
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- - - Cassette-tape recorder,
with amplifier and one or many loudspeakers, operated only by external power
source
8519
81
30
00
- - - Compact disc players
8519
81
70
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- - - - Other
8519
81
90
90
- - - - Other
8519
89
20
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- - - Sound reproducing
recorders, with or without loudspeakers
8519
89
90
90
- - - - Other
8521
10
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- - Other
8521
90
19
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- - - Other
8521
90
99
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- - - Other
8525
80
- Television cameras, digital
cameras and still image video cameras:
8527
12
00
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- - Pocket-size radio
cassette-players
8527
13
- - Other apparatus combined
with sound recording or reproducing apparatus
8527
19
91
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- - - - Portable
8527
19
99
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- - - - Other
8527
91
10
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- - - Portable
8527
92
10
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- - - Portable
8527
99
10
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- - - Portable
8528
71
90
- - - Other:
8528
72
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- - Other, color:
8528
73
- - Other, black and white or
monochrome:
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Chapter
87
Vehicles, other than railway or
tramway rolling-stock, and parts thereof and accessories thereof
8703
10
90
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- - Other.
8703
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- - - - Other
8703
21
90
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: - - - Other
8703
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00
- - - - Other
8703
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90
90
- - - - Other
8703
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of less than 1,800 cc
8703
23
52
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of 1,800 cc and above but less than 2,000 cc
8703
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of 2,000 cc and above but less than 2,500 cc
8703
23
54
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of 2.500 cc and above
8703
23
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of less than 1.S00 cc
8703
23
92
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of 1,800 cc and above but less than 2,000 cc
8703
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of 2,000 cc and above but less than 2,500 cc
8703
23
94
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of 2,500 cc and above
8703
24
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- - - Motor cars (including
passenger cars with station wagons, SUVs and sports cars, but excluding
vans), other
8703
24
90
00
- - - Other
8703
31
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00
- - - Motor cars (including passenger
cars with station wagons. SUVs and sports cars, but excluding vans), other
8703
31
90
90
- - - - Other
8703
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of less than 2.000 cc
8703
32
59
00
- - - - Other
8703
32
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
of less than 2.000 cc
8703
32
99
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- - - - Other
8703
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00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding 2.500 cc but not exceeding 3.000 cc
8703
33
52
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding 3.000 cc
8703
33
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00
- - - Other
8703
90
51
00
- - - Of a cylinder capacity
not exceeding 1,800 cc
8703
90
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00
- - - Of a cylinder capacity exceeding
1.800 cc but not exceeding 2.000 cc
8703
90
53
00
- - - Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding 2.000 cc but not exceeding 2.5O0 cc
8703
90
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- - - Of a cylinder capacity
of above 2.500 cc
8703
90
90
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- - Other
8711
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- - - Motorcycles, including
motor cycles and motor scooters
8711
10
99
00
- - - Other
8711
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00
- - All-terrain motorcycles
(other than those of a cylinder capacity of 175 cc or above)
8711
20
41
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
not exceeding 125 cc
8711
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- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding 125 cc but not exceeding 150 cc
8711
20
43
00
- - - - Of a cylinder capacity
exceeding 150 cc but not exceeding 200 cc (other than those of a cylinder
capacity of 175 cc or above)
8711
20
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- - - Other (other than [hose
of a cylinder capacity of 175 cc or above)
8711
90
40
00
- - Side-cars (other than those
of a cylinder capacity of 175 cc or above)
8711
90
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00
- - Other (other than those of
a cylinder capacity of 175 cc or above)
8712
00
10
00
- Racing cycles
8712
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- Other cycles
8712
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30
00
- Other
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Chapter
94
Furniture; bedding,
mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings;
lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated
signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
9401
30
00
00
- Swivel seats with variable
height adjustment
9401
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00
00
- Seats other than garden
seats or camping equipment, convertible into beds
9401
51
00
00
- - Of bamboo or of rattan
9401
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00
- - Other
9401
61
00
00
- - Upholstered
9401
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00
00
- - Other
9401
71
00
00
- - Upholstered
9401
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00
00
- - Other
9401
80
90
00
- - Other:
9403
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00
00
- Metal furniture of a kind
used in offices
9403
20
00
90
- - Other
9403
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00
00
- Wooden furniture of a kind
used in offices
9403
40
00
00
- Wooden furniture of a kind used
in the kitchen
9403
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00
- Wooden furniture of a kind
used in the bedroom
9403
60
00
90
- - Other
9403
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00
90
- - Other
9403
81
00
90
- - - Other
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90
- - - Other
Notes:
This list is made on the basis
of the list of goods and their HS headings under the Preferential Import Tariff
promulgated together with the Finance Minister's Decision No. 106/2007/QD-BTC
of December 20, 2007.
The description in some cases is
abridged compared to the description under the Preferential Import Tariff
(reflected in ellipses). Upon application, the description under the
Preferential Import Tariff should be based on .