Import - Prohibited and restricted goods

No.

Descriptions

Ministries and ministerial-level agencies

1

Weapons, ammunition, explosives (except industrial explosives), military technical equipment.

Ministry of National Defence

2

Firecrackers of all kinds (except for maritime safety signal fireworks under the guidance of the Ministry of Communications and Transport), sky lights, various kinds of devices to interfere with traffic speedometer.

Ministry of Public Security

3

a) Toxic chemicals Table 1 is defined in the Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, storage, use and destruction of chemical weapons and Appendix issued together with Decree No. 38/2014/ND-CP dated 6^th May 2014 of the Government on the implementation of the Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, storage, use and destruction of chemical weapons.

b) Chemicals in the list of prohibited chemicals specified in Appendix III issued together with Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP dated 9^th October 2017 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of Articles in Chemical Law.

Ministry of Industry and Trade

4

Used consumer goods, including:

a) Textiles, shoes, clothes.

b) Electronic goods.

c) Refrigeration goods.

d) Household electrical appliance.

e) Medical equipment.

f) Interior decoration goods.

g) Household goods made of ceramic, porcelain, glass, metal, plastic, rubber, plastics and other materials

h) Bicycle.

i) Motorbike.

Ministry of Industry and Trade

5

Types of cultural products that are prohibited from dissemination, circulation or under Decision to suspend circulation, withdrawal, confiscating and destroying in Vietnam.

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

6

Used information technology products.

Ministry of Information and Communication

7

a) Types of publications that are prohibited from dissemination and circulation in Vietnam.

b) Postage stamps are banned from business, exchange, display and propagation according to the provisions of the Postal Law.

c) Radio equipment and radio application equipment are not compatible with radio frequency plannings and relevant technical regulations under the Law on Radio Frequency.

Ministry of Information and Communication

8

a) Right-hand drive vehicles (including disassembled and converted form of steering wheel before importing into Vietnam), except for special-use vehicles with right-hand drive operating not involved in traffic including cranes; canal digger; road sweepers, watering roads; vehicles carrying garbage and domestic waste; road construction vehicles; passenger cars in the airport; forklifts in warehouses and ports; concrete pump trucks; vehicles only move in golf courses, parks.

b) Automobiles, four-wheeled motorbikes with attached engine and assembly components are erased, repaired, and replaced frame number and engine number.

c) Trailers, semi-trailers that are erased, repaired, and replaced frame numbers.

d) Types of motorbikes, special-use motorbikes and mopeds, which are erased, repaired, and replaced frame numbers and engine numbers.

Ministry of Transport

9

Used supplies and means, including:

a) Machines, frames, tubes, tires, spare parts, engines of automobiles, trailers, semi-trailers, motorized four-wheelers.

b) Chassis of cars and tractors with engines (including new chassis fitted with used engines, used chassis with new engines),

c) The types of cars with changed structure to convert the function compared with the original design.

d) Automobiles, trailers, semi-trailers (except trailers, special-use semi-trailers), four-wheeled passenger cars with used engines of more than 5 years, calculated from production to import year.

d) Ambulance cars.

Ministry of Transport

10

Chemicals in Appendix III in Rotterdam Convention.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

11

Plant protection drugs that are prohibited to use in Vietnam.

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

12

a) Endangered, precious and rare wild animal and plant specimens of CITES’s Appendix I with natural origin that are imported for commercial purposes.

b) Samples and products of species: white rhino (Ceratotherium simum), black rhino (Diceros bicomis), African elephant (Loxodonta africana).

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

13

Scrap, waste and refrigeration equipment use C.F.C.

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

14

Products and materials containing asbestos belong to the amfibole group.

Ministry of Construction

Imported goods

Required document

1.

Goods that need import control in accordance with international Conventions that Vietnam is a member, announced by the Ministry of Industry and Trade for each period.

Export license

2.

Goods that are applied automatic import license: The Ministry of Industry and Trade announces the list of goods that need applying automatic import license for each period and organizations issue license according to current regulations on licensing.

Automatic export license.

3.

Goods under tariff quotas:

a) Salt.

b) Raw tobacco.

c) Bird eggs.

d) Refined sugar and raw sugar.

Export license

4.

Chemicals and products containing chemicals.

Comply with the provisions of the Law on Chemicals and Decrees that are regulated detail implementation

Chemicals on Table 2, Table 3 according to the Appendix attached with Decree No. 38/2014/ND-CP dated 6^th May 2014 of the Government on chemicals management under the control of the Convention about prohibiting to develop, product, storage, use and destroy chemical weapons.

Pursuant to Decree No. 38/2014/ND-CP dated 06^th May 2014 of the Government.

Industrial precursors.

Export license

5.

Precursors of explosives and industrial explosives.

Export license

6.

Tobacco raw materials, tobacco products, cigarette wrapping cover; specialized machinery and equipment for tobacco production and spare parts.

Pursuant to Government regulations on tobacco production and trading.

Imported goods

Required document

Variety kinds of fireworks for maritime safety.

Import license

Imported goods

Required document

1

Veterinary drugs and veterinary drug materials for the first time imported into Vietnam.

Test license.

2

Chế phẩm sinh học, vi sinh học, hóa chất dùng trong thú y đăng ký nhập khẩu lần đầu vào Việt Nam.

Biological, microbiological, chemical used in veterinary which are imported for the first time into Vietnam.

Test license.

3

a) Plant protection drugs not yet included in the list of plant protection drugs permitted for use in Vietnam for temporary import, re-export or import to produce in Vietnam with export purposes under contracts signed with foreign countries ;

b) Plant protection products for disinfection vaporization contain active substances methyl bromide and active substances with acute toxicity of type I, II according to the Global Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS);

c) Plant protection drugs not included in the list of plant protection drugs permitted for use in Vietnam for testing for registration of plant protection drugs;

d) Plant protection drugs not yet included in the list of plant protection drugs permitted for use in Vietnam are imported for testing and research; used in foreign projects in Vietnam; plant protection drugs used as samples and for exhibitions and fairs and used in some special cases under decisions of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development;

đ) Drugs in the List of plant protection drugs banned to use in Vietnam but is imported as standard substances.

Import license

4

Livestock breeds outside the list of permitted production and trading in Vietnam; insects of all kinds not available in Vietnam; sperms and embryos of animals imported for the first time into Vietnam.

Import license or Test License, clearly regulate conditions and licensing procedures.

5

Plant varieties and living organisms in the field of plant protection and other objects under Phytosanitary test that must be analyzed for pest risk before being imported into Vietnam.

Import license, specifying conditions and licensing procedures.

6

Plant varieties are not included in the list of plant varieties permitted for production and trading in Vietnam imported for research, assay, trial production or import for international cooperation purposes, used in exhibitions, gifts or for investment programs and projects.

Import license or Test License, specifying the conditions and procedures for licensing according to the provisions of the Order on Plant Varieties and Livestock Breeds.

7

Animal feed and feed ingredients; Fish feed and raw materials for aquatic feed production outside the list that are allowed to circulate in Vietnam.

Import license or Test License, clearly stipulating conditions and licensing procedures

8

Fertilizers have not been recognized for circulation in Vietnam in the following cases:

a) Fertilizers for assay;

b) Fertilizers used exclusively for sports grounds and entertainment areas;

c) Specialized fertilizers of foreign-invested enterprises used for production within the scope of enterprises; used in foreign projects in Vietnam;

d) Fertilizers as gifts; sample;

d) Fertilizers used in fairs and exhibitions;

e) Fertilizers that are imported to produce fertilizer production to export;

g) Fertilizers for scientific research;

h) Fertilizers as raw materials for fertilizer production.

Import license

9

Genetic resources of plants, animals and microorganisms for scientific and technical research and exchange.

Import license, clearly stipulating conditions and licensing procedures.

10

a) Natural endangered, precious and rare wild animal and plant in CITES’s Appendix I for non-commercial purposes.

b) Sample of natural endangered wild animals and plants in CITES’s Appendix II and III; and specimens of endangered wild animals and plants in CITES’s Appendices with the origin of breeding, growing and artificial plants.

Based on CITES regulations to publish conditions and guidelines for import procedures.

11

a) Raw materials for production of biological products, microbiology, chemicals, substances for treatment of environmental improvement in aquaculture.

Regulations on quality management of imported materials.

b) Completed products that are allowed to circulate in Vietnam or mported conditionally.

Issue list of products permitted to circulate in Vietnam (List of ordinary imported products) and List of conditionally imported products.

c) Finished products not yet allowed to circulate in Vietnam or conditionally imported.

Import license, specifying conditions, quantity and licensing procedures.

12

a) Aquatic varieties are normally imported.

Issue a list of normally imported aquatic varieties.

b) Aquatic varieties are imported conditionally

Issue a list of conditionally imported aquatic varieties

c) Aquatic varieties not yet included in the list of those permitted for imported normally for the first time into Vietnam.

Import license, specifying conditions, quantity and licensing procedures.

13

a) Live aquatic varieties used as food in the list of normally imported.

Issue list of live aquatic varieties used as food in the list of normally imported

b) Live aquatic varieties used as food out of the list of live aquatic varieties imported as food in Vietnam

Regulations on risk assessment and import licensing.

Imported goods

Required document

1

Scraps

Regulations on condition and standards for import

Imported goods

Required document

1

Publications (books, newspaper, magazine, picture, calendar).

Pursuant to regulations on publishing and press

2

Postal stamps, publications about postal stamp and other kinds of postal stamp.

Import license

3

Specialized publishing system for printing industry.

Pursuant to the law on printing activities

4

Printers of all kinds: offset, flexo, copper tube, letterpress, silk printing machine; Color photocopier, color printer

Pursuant to the law on printing activities.

5

Network information security products, including:

a) Products of network information inspection and evaluation;

b) Network information security monitoring products;

c) Anti-attack and intrusion products.

Import license

B

Imported goods

Required document

1

Cinematographic works, performing art works and other audiovisual products, recorded on all materials.

Approval on the content of imported goods.

2

Fine art works, photographic works.

Approval on the content of imported goods.

3

Electronic game equipment with electronic game program installed; electronic game machines and equipment that install electromagnetic game programs with prize and level, specialized casino game equipment.

Documents certifying the list of imported goods.

4

Children toys

Specifying technical conditions.

Imported goods

Required document

1

The drug has a circulation registration certificate, except for special controlled drugs.

Imported on demand without order confirmation.

2

Raw materials for making medicines are pharmaceutical substances with registration for circulation in Vietnam.

Imported on demand without order confirmation.

3

Raw materials for making medicines are pharmaceutical substances for drug production according to drug registration, which have had drug registration in Vietnam.

Imported on demand without order confirmation.

4

Medical equipment has register number

Imported on demand without order confirmation.

5

Insecticidal and germicidal chemicals and preparations for home and medical use that have permitted to circulate.

Imported on demand without order confirmation.

6

Special controlled medicine.

Import license

7

Special controlled madicine materials.

Import license

8

The drug which has not yet had drug circulation certificate in Vietnam.

Import license

9

The drug material which has not yet had circulation certificate in Vietnam, except for special controlled drug materials.

Import license

10

Standard substances, packaging in direct contact with the drug.

Import license

11

Imported food under the management of the Ministry of Health in accordance with the law on food safety.

Công bố hợp quy, công bố phù hợp quy định an toàn thực phẩm và kiểm tra nhà nước.

12

Medical equipment has not yet had circulation number, has been imported for scientific research or testing or guidance to use and repair of medical equipment.

Import license

13

Medical equipment has not yet had circulation number for aid purposes.

Import license

14

Medical equipment has not yet had circulation number, has been imported for personal healing purposes.

Import license

15

Imported chemicals and preparations for research.

Import license

16

Imported products for aid purposes; used for other specific purposes (as gifts, donations, or because in the market there is no product and method matched the demand of organizations and individuals who need to import).

Import license

17

Cosmetics.

Standard announcement.

Imported goods

Required document

1

Raw material for gold

Import license