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Category

Customs Clearance Procedure

Responsible Agency

Provincial Customs Department

Phone:

Email:

Legal basis of the Procedure                

• Law on Customs No. 54/2014/QH13 dated June 23, 2014;

• Decree No. 08/2015/ND-CP dated January 21, 2015 on guidelines for enforcement of the Law on Customs in terms of customs procedures, customs supervision and inspection;

• Joint Circular 01/2008/TTLT-BCT-BTC-BGTVT-BNN&PTNT-BYT-NHNN dated January 31, 2008 guiding the implementation of the Prime Minister's Decision No. 254/2006/QD-TTg dated November 7, 2006;

• Circular 34/2016/TT-BCT specifying cross-border trade in goods performed by business persons as prescribed by the Prime Minister’s Decision No.52/2015/QD-TTg dated October 20, 2015 regarding management of border trade with bordering countries

• Circular No. 38/2015/TT-BTC dated March 25, 2015 on customs procedures; customs supervision and inspection; export tax, import tax, and tax administration applied to exported and imported goods.

Processing time

• No later than two (02) working hours for dossier examination

• No later than eight (08) working hours for physical examination of the shipment

• No later than two (02) working days for physical examination of the shipment with various types and large quantities of goods.

Fee

VND 20,000

No

Type of documents

1

Customs declaration: Use the Declaration for Border-gate Export stipulated by the Ministry of Finance.

2

Other documents on customs dossier, customs procedures for export and import goods under a sales contract as stipulated by the Ministry of Finance, except for bill of lading and trading contract

3

Health quarantine declaration issued by the health quarantine authority (for goods subject to health quarantine); and registration of State quality inspection of goods for goods subject to inspection

4

Certificate of origins (C/O) for goods that are within the application of import tax incentives or preferential import tariff

No

Contents

Step 1

The goods owner or customs declarant shall declare the goods for export, import in the customs declaration and submit it and relevant documents and the goods to the Customs Authority of the border-gate to settle export and import procedures and get customs clearance of cross-border goods according to regulations.

Step 2

The customs authority of the border-gate shall take physical examination of the goods and comparison against information provided in the declaration and have decisions on customs clearance of exported and imported goods of the owner prescribed for each specific lot of goods.