Title: Decision 18/2016/QD-TTg dated May 06th, 2016, on circumstances that enable importation of used information technology products under import prohibition

Type: Decision

Issuing Agency: Government

Responsible Agency: Relevant Agencies

Issuing Date: 06-05-2016

This Decision applies to organizations and enterprises whose activities involve the importation of information technology products under the import prohibition list (referred to as the importers) and state management authorities concerned.

Terminology

1. “Specialized information technology product" is designed and employed for special tasks in professional manufacturing sectors or used in laboratories or test chambers. It is not a consumer product for normal uses.

2. “Refurbishment” refers to repair and replacement of a product unit’s components and restoration of its functions and appearance to an equivalent state of a new product unit of the same model.

3. “Refurbished information technology product” refers to a used product unit that has undergone repair(s) and replacement of components and restoration of functions and visual aspects to attain the equivalent state of functionality, appearance and warranty on a new product unit of the same model. The label of a refurbished product must indicate its refurbished state in Vietnamese or in equivalent English.

4. “Software production” refers to legally compliant activities of organizations and enterprises in one or various phases of a software manufacturing process that creates or upgrades, modifies and completes software.

5. “Business outsourcing through information technology” refers to services whose providers carry out one or various professional tasks for customers outside territories of Vietnam through media of information technology or telecommunications.

6. “Data processing” refers to cleansing, analysis, conversion and exhaustive treatment of data and reporting of output specifically produced by information that a customer provides.

For further details, Please see a reference translation  at    http://asemconnectvietnam.gov.vn/law.aspx?ZID1=0&ID1=1&MaVB_Id=2454&CapBanHanhID=130&TukhoaCoSanID=1&pagenum=0

 

 

 

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