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Title: Circular 31/2015/TT-BTTTT guiding a number of articles of Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 by the Government regarding the import and export of used information technology products
Type: Circular
Issuing Agency: Ministry of Information and Communication
Responsible Agency: Ministry of Information and Communication
Issuing Date: 29-10-2015

 

 

1. Scope of regulation

a) Promulgation of the List of used information technology products banned from import in Appendix 01 enclosed herewith (hereinafter referred to as the List);

b) Regulations on import of goods on the List to serve scientific research;

c) Regulations on recycling and repair of used information technology products on the List applicable to foreign traders according to regulations in Article 36 of Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated 20/11/2013.

2. Regulated entities:

This Circular applies to organizations and individuals (hereinafter referred to as importers) carrying out the import related to information technology products and State management agencies related to such activity.

 

This Circular comes into effect from December 15, 2015.

 

APPENDIX 01

LIST OF USED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS BANNED FROM IMPORT
(Enclosed with Circular No. 31/2015/TT-BTTTT dated 29/10/2015 by the Minister of Information and Communications)

Code

Description

8443

Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof (excluding monochrome photocopying machines combined with printing or other utility, having ability to print/copy A0 papers or having printing/copying speed of 35 copies of A4 or larger papers per minute; excluding laser printer cartridge).

 

- Other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined:

8443.31

- - Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network:

8443.31.10

- - - Printer-copiers, printing by the ink-jet process

8443.31.20

- - - Printer-copiers, printing by the laser process

8443.31.30

- - - Combination printer-copier-facsimile machines

8443.32

- - Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network:

8443.32.10

- - - Dot matrix printers

8443.32.20

- - - Ink-jet printers

8443.32.30

- - - Laser printers

8443.32.40

- - - Facsimile machines

8443.32.90

- - - Other

8443.39

-- Other:

8443.39.40

--- Ink-jet printers

 

- Ink-jet printers:

8443.99

-- Other:

8443.99.20

--- Ink-filled printer cartridges (excluding laser printer cartridge)

8469

Typewriters other than printers of heading 84.43; word-processing machines.

8469.00.10

- Word-processing machines

8469.00.90

- Other

8470

Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers.

8470.10.00

- Electronic calculators capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions

 

- Other electronic calculating machines:

8470.21.00

- - Incorporating a printing device

8470.30.00

- Other calculating machines

84.71

Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included.

8471.30

- Portable automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display:

8471.30.10

- - Handheld computers including palmtops and personal digital assistants (PDAs)

8471.30.20

-- Laptops including notebooks, subnotebooks and tablet PC

8471.30.90

-- Other:

 

- Other automatic data processing machines:

8471.41

- - Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined:

8471.41.10

- - - Personal computers excluding portable computers of subheading 8471.30

8471.41.90

--- Other:

8471.49

- - Other, presented in the form of systems:

8471.49.10

- - - Personal computers excluding portable computers of subheading 8471.30

8471.49.90

--- Other:

8471.50

- Processing units other than those of subheading 8471.41 or 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of units: storage units, input units, output units:

8471.50.10

-- Processing units for personal ( including portable) computers

8471.50.90

-- Other:

8471.60

- Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing:

8471.60.30

- - Computer keyboards

8471.60.40

- - X-Y coordinate input devices, including mouses, light pens, joysticks, track balls, and touch sensitive screens

8471.70

- Storage units:

8471.70.10

- - Floppy disk drives

8471.70.20

- - Hard disk drives

8471.70.30

- - Tape drives

8471.70.40

- - Optical disk drives, including CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and CD-R drives

8471.80

- Other units of automatic data processing machines:

8471.80.10

- - Control and adaptor units

8471.80.70

- - Sound cards or video cards

8471.90

- Other:

8471.90.20

- - Optical character readers, document or image scanners

84.73

Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 84.69 to 84.72.

8473.10

- Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.69:

8473.10.10

- - Printed circuit assemblies for word-processing machines

8473.10.90

- - Other

 

- Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.70:

8473.21.00

- - Of the electronic calculating machines of subheading 8470.10.00, 8470.21.00 or 8470.29.00

8473.29.00

- - Other

8473.30

- Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.71:

8473.30.10

- - Assembled printed circuit boards

8473.30.90

- - Other

8473.40

- Parts and accessories of the machines of heading 84.72:

 

- - For electrically operated machines:

8473.40.11

- - - Parts, including printed circuit assemblies for automatic teller machines

8473.40.19

- - - Other

8473.40.20

- - For non-electrically operated machines

8473.50

- Parts and accessories equally suitable for use with machines of two or more of the headings 84.69 to 84.72:

 

- - For electrically operated machines:

8473.50.11

- - - Suitable for use with the machines of heading 84.71

8473.50.19

- - - Other

8473.50.20

- - For non-electrically operated machines

85.17

Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless networks (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28.

 

- Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks:

8517.11.00

- - Line telephone sets with cordless handsets

8517.12.00

- - Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks

 

- Other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless networks (such as a local or wide area network):

8517.61.00

- - Base stations

8517.62

- - Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus:

 

- - - Units of automatic data processing machines other than units of heading 84.71:

8517.62.21

---- Control and adaptor units, including gateways, bridges and routers

8517.62.30

- - - Telephonic or telegraphic switching apparatus

 

- - - Apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems:

8517.62.41

- - - - Modems including cable modems and modem cards

8517.62.42

- - - - Concentrators or multiplexers

 

- - - Other transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus:

8517.62.51

- - - - Wireless LANs

8517.62.53

- - - - Other transmission apparatus for radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy

 

--- Other transmission apparatus:

8517.62.61

- - - - For radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy

8517.69.00

- - Other:

85.18

Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets.

8518.10

- Microphones and stands therefor:

 

- - Microphone:

8518.10.11

- - - Microphones having a frequency range of 300 Hz to 3,400 Hz, with a diameter not exceeding 10 mm and a height not exceeding 3 mm, for telecommunication use

8518.10.19

- - - Other microphones, whether or not with their stands

8518.10.90

- - Other

 

- Loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures

8518.21

- - Single loudspeakers, mounted in their enclosures

8518.21.10

--- Box speaker type

8518.21.90

--- Other

8518.22

- - Multiple loudspeakers, mounted in the same enclosure

8518.22.10

--- Box speaker type

8518.22.90

--- Other

8518.29

- - Other:

8518.29.20

- - - Loudspeakers, without enclosure, having a frequency range of 300 Hz to 3,400 Hz, with a diameter not exceeding 50 mm, for telecommunication use

8518.29.90

- - - Other

8518.30

- Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers:

8518.30.10

- - Headphones

8518.30.20

- - Earsphones

 

- - Combined microphone/speaker sets:

8518.30.40

- - Other combined microphone/speaker sets of line telephone handsets

8518.30.90

- - Other

8518.40

- Audio-frequency electric amplifiers:

8518.40.10

- - Other, having 6 or more input signal lines, with or without elements for capacity amplifiers

8518.40.20

- - Used as repeaters in telephony other than line telephony

8518.40.30

- - Used as repeaters in telephony other than line telephony

8518.40.90

- - Other

8518.50

- Electric sound amplifier sets

8518.50.10

- - Having a power rating of 240 W or more

8518.50.20

- - Other, with loudspeakers, of a kind suitable for broadcasting, having a voltage rating of 50 V or more but not exceeding 100 V

8518.50.90

- - Other

8518.90

- Parts:

8518.90.10

- - Of goods of subheading 8518.10.11, 8518.29.20, 8518.30.40 or 8518.40.20, including printed circuit assemblies

8518.90.20

- - Of goods of subheading 8518.40.40

8518.90.90

- - Other

8525

Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders

8525.50.00

- Transmission apparatus

8525.60.00

- Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus

8525.80

- Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders:

8525.80.10

- - Web cameras

 

- - Video camera recorders:

8525.80.31

- - - Of kind used in broadcasting

8525.80.39

- - - Other

8525.80.40

- - Televesion cameras

8525.80.50

- - Other digital cameras

85.26

Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus.

8526.10

- Radar apparatus:

8526.10.10

- - Rada apparatus, ground based, or of a kind for use in civil aircraft, or of a kind used solely on sea-going vessels

8526.10.90

- - Other

 

- Other:

8526.91

- - Radio navigational aid apparatus, of a kind for use in civil aircraft

8526.91.10

- - - Radio navigational aid apparatus, of a kind for use in civil aircraft, or of a kind used solely on sea-going vessels

8526.91.90

- - - Other

8526.92.00

- - Radio remote control apparatus

85.27

Reception apparatus for radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock.

 

- Radio-broadcast receivers capable of operating without an external source of power:

8527.12.00

- - Pocket-size radio cassette players

8527.13

- - Other apparatus combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus:

8527.13.10

- - - Portable

8527.13.90

- - - Other

8527.19

- - Other:

 

- - - Reception apparatus capable of planning, managing and monitoring the electromagnetic spectrum:

8527.19.11

- - - - Portable

8527.19.19

- - - - Other

 

- - - Other:

8527.19.91

- - - - Portable

8527.19.99

- - - - Other

 

- Radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles:

8527.21.00

- - Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus

8527.29.00

- - Other

 

- Other:

8527.91

- - Combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus:

8527.91.10

- - - Portable

8527.91.90

- - - Other

8527.92

- - Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock:

8527.92.10

- - - Portable

8527.92.90

- - - Other

8527.99

- - Other:

8527.99.10

- - - Portable

 

- - - Other:

8528

Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus.

 

- Cathode-ray tube monitors:

8528.41

- - Of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system of heading 84.71:

8528.41.10

- - - Colour:

8528.41.20

- - - Monochrome

8528.49

- - Other:

8528.49.10

- - - Colour:

8528.49.20

- - - Monochrome

 

- Other monitors:

8528.51

- - Of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system of heading 84.71:

8528.51.10

- - - Projection type flat panel display units

8528.51.20

- - - Other, colour

8528.51.30

- - - Other, monochrome

8528.59

- - Other:

8528.59.10

- - - Colour:

8528.59.20

--- Monochrome

 

- Projectors:

8528.61

- - Of a kind solely or principally used in an automatic data processing system of heading 84.71:

8528.61.10

- - - Flat panel display type

8528.61.90

- - - Other

8528.69

- - Other:

8528.69.10

- - - Having the capability of projecting on a screen of 300 inches or more

 

- Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:

8528.71

- - Not designed to incorporate a video display or screen:

 

- - - Set top boxes which have a communications function:

8528.71.11

- - - - Electrically operated

8528.71.19

- - - - Other

 

- - - Other:

8528.71.91

- - - - Mains operated

8528.71.99

- - - - Other

8528.72

- - Other, colour:

8528.72.10

- - - Battery operated

 

- - - Other:

8528.72.91

- - - - Cathode-ray tube type

8528.72.92

- - - - Liquid crystal device (LCD), light emitting diode (LED) and other flat panel display type

8528.72.99

- - - - Other

8528.73.00

-- Other, monochrome

85.34

Printed circuits.

8534.00.10

- Single-sided

8534.00.20

- Double-sided

8534.00.30

- Multi-layer

8534.00.90

- Other

85.40

Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera).

 

- Cathode-ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode-ray tubes:

8540.11.00

- - Colour:

8540.12.00

- - Monochrome

8540.20.00

- Television camera tubes; image converters and intensifiers; other photo-cathode tubes

8540.40

- Data/graphic display tubes, color, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm:

8540.40.10

- - Data/graphic display tubes, color, of a kind used for articles of subheading 85.25

8540.40.90

- - Other

8540.60.00

- Other cathode-ray tubes

 

- Very-short-wavelength tubes or microwave tubes (for example magnetrons, klystrons, traveling wave tubes, carcinotrons), excluding grid-controlled tubes:

8540.71.00

- - Magnetrons

8540.79.00

- - Other

 

- Other valves and tubes:

8540.81.00

- - Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes

8540.89.00

- - Other

 

- Parts:

8540.91.00

- - Of cathode-ray tubes

8540.99

- - Other:

8540.99.10

- - - Of microwave tubes

8540.99.90

- - - Other

85.42

Electronic integrated circuits.

 

- Electronic integrated circuits:

8542.31.00

- - Processors and controllers whether or not combined with memories, converters, logic circuits, amplifiers, clock and timing circuits, or other circuits

8542.32.00

- - Memories

8542.33.00

- - Amplifiers

8542.39.00

- - Other

8542.90.00

- Parts

85.44

Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors.

 

- Other electric conductors, for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V:

8544.42

- - Fitted with connectors:

 

- - - Of a kind used for telecommunications, for a voltage not exceeding 80 V:

8544.42.11

- - - - Telephone, telegraph and radio replay cables, submarine

8544.42.19

---- Other:

8544.42.21

---- Telephone, telegraph and radio replay cables, submarine

8544.42.22

---- Telephone, telegraph and radio replay cables, other

8544.49

- - Other:

 

- - - Of a kind used for telecommunications, for a voltage not exceeding 80 V:

8544.49.11.

---- Telephone, telegraph and radio replay cables, submarine

8544.49.19

---- Other:

 

- - - Of a kind used for telecommunications, for a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 1,000 V:

8544.49.31

---- Telephone, telegraph and radio replay cables, submarine

8544.49.39

- - - - Other:

8544.70

- Optical fibre cables:

8544.70.10

-- Telephone, telegraph and radio replay cables, submarine

 

For further details, Please see a reference translation  at http://english.mic.gov.vn/Pages/VanBan/13550/31_2015_TT-BTTTT.html

 

List Measures/Standards

Name Description Status Measures/Standards Measure Class
List of used information technology products banned from import Ban from import: Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, Typewriters other than printers of heading 84.43; word-processing machines... in Appendix 01 Circular 31/2015/TT-BTTTT Active Measure Goods
Permission of import goods in the list of banned from import under management of The Ministry of Information and Communications Goods in the list of banned from import are considered permitting the import for scientific research (including: being the target of scientific research; being samples for the design, research and development of products and testing in production activities) Active Measure Goods
Permission of recycling and repair of used information technology products on the List of products banned from import for foreign traders Requirements for the recycling and repair of used information technology products on the List of products banned from import for foreign traders: 1. The processing is carried out by an organization established and operated according to Vietnam’s laws. 2. There is a plan and measures to treat waste material and scraps from the processing to prevent environment pollution that are approved by the Service of Natural Resources and Environment of the province where the processing is carried out. 3. All products and goods are re-exported overseas and must not be sold in Vietnam. 4. The processing is permitted by the Ministry of Information and Communications. Active Measure Goods
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