Number

Description of goods

1

Weapons, ammunitions, explosives (excluding industrial explosives), military technical equipment.

(The Ministry of National Defense shall publish a list of goods with HS codes in the Import and Export Tariffs)

2

a/ Relics, antiques, national treasures under ownership by the State, ownership of political or socio-political organizations;

b/ Assorted cultural publications banned or decided to be suspended from dissemination and circulation in Vietnam.

(The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall guide the implementation, publish a list of goods specified at Points a and b above with HS codes in the Import and Export Tariffs)

3

a/ Assorted publications banned from dissemination and circulation in Vietnam;

b/ Postage stamps banned from trading, exchange, display and dissemination in accordance with the Law on Post.

(The Ministry of Information and Communications shall guide the implementation, publish a list of goods at Points a and b above with HS codes in the Import and Export Tariffs)

4

Logs, sawn timber from domestic natural forests.

(The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall guide the implementation, publish a list of goods with HS codes in the Import and Export Tariffs)

5

a/ Precious and rare wild animals and plants and precious and rare domestic animals and plants of IA-IB groups as specified in the Government’s Decree No. 32/2006/ND-CP of March 30, 2006, on management of endangered, precious and rare forest plants and animals and precious and rare wild animals and plants in the “Red Book” already committed by Vietnam with international organizations;

b/ Precious and rare aquatic species;

c/ Livestock breeds and plant varieties on the list of precious and rare livestock breeds and plant varieties banned from export promulgated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in conformity with the 2004 Ordinance on Livestock Breeds and the 2004 Ordinance on Plant Varieties.

(The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall publish a list of goods specified at Points a, b and c above with HS codes in the Import and Export Tariffs)

6

Encrypted products used for protection of state secrets.

(The Ministry of National Defense shall guide the implementation)

7

a/ Schedule-1 toxic chemicals defined in the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and Annex 1 to the Government’s Decree No. 100/2005/ND-CP of August 3, 2005, on the implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.

b/ Chemicals on the list of banned chemicals prescribed in Appendix III to the Government’s Decree No. 108/2008/ND-CP of October 7, 2008, detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Law on Chemicals.

(The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall publish a list of goods specified at Points a and above b with HS codes in the Import and Export Tariffs)