Is wine of fresh grapes required to follow customs procedures at checkpoint of the entry of Vietnam?
Is wine of fresh grapes required to follow customs procedures at checkpoint of the entry of Vietnam? What are prohibited acts in customs in Vietnam?
Hello Lawnet. Next week, I will be back to Vietnam from France. I will also bring some bottles of wine made from fresh grapes as gifts for family and friends. Do these products have to follow customs procedures at checkpoint of the entry of Vietnam?
Thank you!
Is wine of fresh grapes required to follow customs procedures at checkpoint of the entry of Vietnam?
Pursuant to Point 2 Section II of the List of imports required to follow customs procedures at checkpoint of the entry issued together with the Decision 23/2019/QĐ-TTg stipulating as follows:
No.
Description
HS code
1
Cigarette, cigar and other tobacco-based products used for smoking, sniffing, chewing, snuffing or sucking
Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse.
24.01
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.
24.02
Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; “homogenised” or “reconstituted” tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences.
24.03
2
Liquor
Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 20.09.
2204
Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances.
2205
Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
2206
Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength.
2207
Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages.
2208
3
Beer made from malt
2203
4
Motor vehicles for the transport of fewer than 16 persons
8702
8703
5
Motorbikes, CBU three-wheel motorcycles with reciprocating internal combustion piston engine of a cylinder capacity exceeding 125cc
8711.20
8711.30
8711.40
8711.50
6
Aeroplanes, yachts
6.1
Aeroplanes
8802.20.10
8802.30.10
8802.40.10
6.2
Yachts
8901.10
7
Gasoline of all types
7.1
Motor spirit, unleaded
2710.12.21
2710.12.222
710.12.23
2710.12.24
2710.12.25
2710.12.26
2710.12.27
2710.12.28
2710.12.29
7.2
Aviation spirit, not of a kind used as jet fuel
2710.12.31
2710.12.39
8
Air conditioning machines, of a cooling capacity not exceeding 90,000 BTU
8415
9
Playing cards
9504.40.00
10
Votive papers
4823.90.92
11
Explosive precursors and industrial explosive materials on the List promulgated by Ministry of Industry and Trade
11.1
Explosive precursors
- Ammonium nitrate, (NH4 NO3) ≥98,5%
3102.30.00
-- Nitromethane (CH3NO2) ≥96%
2904.20.90
--- Sodium nitrate (NaNO3) ≥98,5%
2834.29.90
-- Potassium nitrate (KNO3) ≥98,5%
2834.21.00
-- Sodium chlorate (NaClO3) ≥84,0%
2829.11.00
-- Potassium chlorate (KClO3) ≥98,5%
2829.19.00
-- Potassium perchlorate (KClO4) ≥98,5%
2829.90.90
11.2
Industrial explosive materials (including industrial explosives, boosters, detonators, detonating cords, primers, LIL wires):
- Plain detonators No. 8
3603.00.10
- Electric detonators No. 8
- Electric delay detonators
- Safe electric delay detonators
- Safe delay detonators Carrick-8
- Non-electric delay detonators
- Non-electric delay detonators MS15
- LP non-electric delay detonators
- Permissible non-electric delay detonators for using in underground mine in presence of methane gas
- Uni tronic 600 electronic detonators
Industrial safety fuses
3603.00.20
- Shock signal tubes
3603.00.90
- Water-resistant detonating cords 5, 6, 10, 12, 40, 70g/m
- Ordinary detonating cords
- Signal tubes Conectadets
Ammonite explosives AD1
3602.00.00
Explosives TNP1
Anfo explosives
Water-resistant Anfo explosives
Emulsion explosives for use in opencast mines
High-energy emulsion explosives for use in opencast mines
Emulsion explosives for blasting in underground mines without detonation gas and dust
Safe emulsion explosives for use in underground mines with a superior escape of methane
Safe emulsion explosives for use in underground mines with detonation gas and dust
Loose emulsion explosives for packer
Primers for industrial explosives
Mines for blasting oversized rocks
Senatel Powersplit explosives
Hexogen
(G, DX, T4, Cyclotrimethylene - trinitramin) - Chemical formula
- C3H6N6O6
- C6H2N6N3(NO2)3
Trinitrotoluene (TNT)
Chemical formula
- C6H2(NO2)3CH3
Octogen
(HMX - Cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine, Homocyclonite)
Chemical formula
- C4H8N8O8
Pentrit
(Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, also known as Corpent, PENT or TEN)
Chemical formula
- C(CH2ONO2)4
- C5H8(ONO2)
12
Imports on the List of goods that may affect national defense and security promulgated by the Government
13
Goods imported from countries and territories where an early warning system has been implemented as notified the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
14
Goods on which trade remedies and measures against evasion of trade remedies are imposed under the decision promulgated by the Minister of Industry and Trade.
As regulations above, those bottles of wine, that you will bring from France into Vietnam, shall go through customs procedures at checkpoint of the entry of Vietnam.
What are prohibited acts in customs in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 10 of the Law on Customs in 2014 stipulating prohibited acts in customs in Vietnam as follows:
1. For customs officials:
a/ Causing troubles and difficulties when following customs formalities;
b/ Screening or colluding with others in smuggling or illegally transporting goods across the border, committing trade or tax fraud;
c/ Taking bribes, appropriating or embezzling temporarily seized goods or other acts for self-seeking purposes;
d/ Other violations against the law on customs.
2. For customs declarants, entities with rights and obligations related to import, export and transit of goods, or exit, entry and transit of vehicles:
a/ Committing fraudulent acts in carrying out customs formalities;
b/ Smuggling or illegally transporting goods across the border;
c/ Committing trade or tax fraud;
d/ Giving bribes or other acts for self-seeking purposes;
dd/ Obstructing customs officials in performing their official duty;
e/ Hacking, falsifying or destroying the customs communication system;
g/ Other violations against the law on customs.
Above are acts, that are prohibited from performing by customs officials, ustoms declarants, entities with rights and obligations related to import, export and transit of goods, or exit, entry and transit of vehicles in Vietnam
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