What are the responsibilities of staff selling goods on aircrafts exiting Vietnam?

What are the responsibilities of staff selling goods on aircrafts exiting Vietnam? (Internet image)

Decree 100/2020/ND-CP stipulates the responsibilities of staff selling duty-free goods on aircrafts exiting Vietnam to buyers being persons exiting or transiting through Vietnam, passengers on aircrafts exiting Vietnam buying duty-free goods for personal use while their vessels are at the port. To be specific:

- Request the buyer to present their passport;

- When selling duty-free goods, flight attendants shall obtain all necessary information, including buyer name, passport number, nationality, flight number, information on boarding pass, commodity name, calculation unit, quantity and value written on invoice. Commodity name and calculation unit must be written as declared in the import declaration;

- Within 24 hours starting from the time the aircraft parks at the designated location (for flights to Vietnam), the duty-free business shall prepare a declaration on its software and send the declaration to the electronic data processing system. The declaration must include buyer name, passport number, nationality, flight number, information on boarding pass, commodity name and calculation unit (as written in the import declaration), quantity and value written on invoice. In the event that the electronic data processing system encounters an error, the duty-free business shall send the data within 24 hours after the error is fixed.

More details can be found in Decree 100/2020/ND-CP effective from October 15, 2020.

Ty Na

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