Vietnam: Guidance on application for first-time issuance of C/O for traders

According to Circular No. 06/2011/TT-BCT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, the application for first-time issuance of C/O is carried out as follows:

1. Filing dossier requesting for C/O

- Traders who request for C/O for the first time can file trader dossier simultaneously with dossier of request for C/O.

- Traders file directly dossier requesting for C/O or send by post to head office of the Organization of issuing C/O where traders registered its dossier.

- Traders may select the request for C/O via the Internet according to provision in Chapter IV of this Circular.

2. Receipt of dossier requesting for C/O

Upon receiving the written records of trader to send, receiving official shall be responsibility for receiving dossiers and examining records and notifying to trader one of the following contents:

- To accept to issue C/O and time that trader will receive C/O;

- To request for supplementing documents (stating specifying documents need to be supplemented);

- To request for re-checking documents (stating specifying the information need to be checked if any authenticated, specific evidence used as a basis for the proposed checking);

- To refuse issuing C/O if detecting one of the following cases:

+ Applicant for C/O has not conducted registration of trader dossier;

+ Applicant for C/O not in compliance with provision in Article 9;

+ Applicant for C/O has not filed owned documents from previous C/O issuances;

+ Applicant for C/O cheats of the origin from previous C/O issuances and the case has not resolved yet;

+ Applicant for C/O fails to supply in full archiving dossier according to provision to evidence the origin when the Organization of issuing C/O conducts post- examination of the origin;

+ The dossier with conflict of contents;

+ C/O shall be declared in red ink, written, or erased, or faded out, or printed in different colored ink;

+ There are clear, legitimate grounds evidencing that goods have not got origin in accordance with the law.

View more details at Circular No. 06/2011/TT-BCT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, effective from May 04, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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