The Vietnam Ministry of Finance is drafting a Circular on the issuance of Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports to replace Circular 103/2015/TT-BTC.
Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports is issued together with this Circular, including two (2) Appendices:
- Appendix I: Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports;
- Appendix II: Six (6) general rules for explaining the classification of commodities according to Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports based on the Harmonized System (HS) of the World Customs Organization;
Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports is applied to implement the contents specified in Clause 3, Article 17 of Decree 08/2015/ND-CP.
In case of approval, the above Circular will take effect from January 1, 2018, and repeal Circular 103/2015/TT-BTC on Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports.
Some types of commodities have been amended and supplemented as follows:
No. |
Draft |
|
Commodity Code |
Name and description of commodities |
|
1 |
01.02 |
Animals living in the family Buffalo |
- - Others: |
||
0102.29 |
- - - Bull |
|
0102.29.11 |
- - - - Castrated cows |
|
0102.29.19 |
- - - - Other |
|
2 |
01.05 |
Live poultry, including chickens of the Gallus domesticus species, ducks, geese, geese, turkeys and pheasants |
0105.94 |
- - Chickens of the species Gallus - domesticus: |
|
- - - Fighting Cock |
||
0105.94.41 |
- - - - Weight not exceeding 2 kg |
|
0105.94.49 |
- - - - Other |
|
3 |
03.01 |
Raw fish |
- Ornamental fish: |
||
0301.11 |
- - Freshwater fish: |
|
- - - Fish Powder (1) : |
||
0301.11.11 |
- - - - American rat fish or clown dolphin or three-striped mouse fish (Botia) (Chromobotia macracanthus) |
|
0301.11.19 |
- - - - Other |
|
- - - Other types: |
||
0301.11.96 |
- - - - Pearl dragonfish (Scleropages jardini) |
|
0301.19 |
- - Others: |
|
0301.19.10 |
- - - Fish Powder (1) |
|
- - - Other types: |
||
0301.19.91 |
- - - - Banggai cardinal fish (Pterapogon kauderni) |
|
0301.19.92 |
- - - - - Wave-patterned fishing eagle (Cheilinus undulatus) |
|
0301.19.99 |
- - - - Other |
|
4 |
03.06
|
Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked crustaceans, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; crustaceans in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; crustaceans, coarse and fine meal and pellets of crustaceans, fit for human consumption. |
-Freeze |
||
0306.11 |
- - Rock lobster and other marine shrimp (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.): |
|
0306.11.10 |
- - - Smoked |
|
0306.11.90 |
- - - Other |
|
0306.12 |
- - Lobster (Homarus spp.): |
|
0306.12.10 |
- - - Smoked |
|
0306.12.90 |
- - - Other |
|
0306.17 |
- - Shrimps and other prawns: |
|
- - - Black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon): |
||
0306.17.11 |
- - - - Removed head |
|
0306.17.19 |
- - - - Other |
|
- - - White-legged shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei): |
||
0306.17.21 |
- - - - Removed head, tail |
|
0306.17.22 |
- - - - Removed head, tail removed |
|
0306.17.29 |
- - - - Other |
|
5 |
07.01 |
Potatoes, fresh or chilled |
0701.90 |
- Others: |
|
0701.90.10 |
- - The type commonly used to make chipping potatoes |
|
0701.90.90 |
- - Other |
|
6 |
07.09 |
Other vegetables, fresh or chilled |
- Others: |
||
0709.99 |
- - Others: |
|
0709.99.10 |
- - - Sweet corn |
|
0709.99.20 |
- - - Okra (Okra) |
|
0709.99.90 |
- - - Other |
|
7 |
08.05 |
The fruit belongs to the citrus genus, fresh or dried. |
|
- Tangerines of all kinds (including kumquats); Clementines and similar citrus hybrids: |
|
0805.21.00 |
- - Tangerines of all kinds (including kumquats) |
|
0805.22.00 |
- - Little Orange (Clementines) |
|
0805.29.00 |
- - Other |
|
0805.50 |
- Yellow lemons (Citrus limonum, Citrus limonum) and green lemons (Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus latifolia): |
|
0805.50.10 |
- - Yellow lemon (Citrus limon, Citrus limonum ) |
|
0805.50.20 |
- - Green lemon (Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus latifolia) |
|
8 |
94.06 9406.10 |
Prefabricated houses. -Wooden: |
9406.10.10 |
- - Planters attached to mechanical or thermal equipment |
|
9406.10.90 |
- - Other |
|
9406.90 |
- Others: |
|
|
- - Planters are attached to mechanical equipment or thermal equipment: |
|
9406.90.11 |
- - - Iron or steel |
|
9406.90.19 |
- - - Other |
|
9406.90.20 |
- - Other, plastic or aluminum |
|
z9406.90.30 |
- - Other, iron or steel |
|
9406.90.40 |
- - Other, cement, concrete or artificial stone |
|
9406.90.90 |
- - Other |
|
9 |
90.06 |
Cameras (except camcorders); flash and camera flash equipment except discharge lamps of heading 85.39. |
- Other cameras: |
||
9006.59 |
- - Others: |
|
- - - Cameras used to prepare print dies or print shafts: |
||
9006.59.21 |
- - - - Laser Imaging Machine |
|
9006.59.29 |
- - - - Other |
|
9006.59.30 |
- - - Laser photo plotter or photo editing machine with blind image processor |
|
10 |
87.11
|
Motorcycles (including mopeds) and bicycles with auxiliary motors, with or without a trunk next to them; barrel motorcycles. |
8711.10 |
- Having a piston-type internal combustion engine with a cylinder capacity of not more than 50 cc: |
|
- - CKD form: |
||
8711.10.14 |
- - - Powered kick scooter; "Pocket Motorcycle" |
|
8711.10.15 |
- - - Other motorcycles and scooters |
|
- - Others: |
||
8711.10.94 |
- - - Powered kick scooter; "Pocket Motorcycle" |
|
8711.10.95 |
- - - Other motorcycles and scooters |
|
8711.20 |
- Having a piston-type internal combustion engine with a cylinder capacity of over 50 cc but not exceeding 250 cc: |
|
- - CKD form: |
||
8711.20.11 |
- - - Off-road motorcycles |
|
8711.20.12 |
- - - Mopeds and motorized bicycles |
|
8711.20.13 |
- - - "pocket motorcycle" |
|
|
- - - Other motorcycles (with or without a trunk next to them), including scooters: |
|
8711.20.14 |
- - - - Type of cylinder capacity over 150 cc but not exceeding 200 cc |
|
8711.20.15 |
- - - - Cylinder capacity over 200 cc but not exceeding 250 cc |
|
8711.20.16 |
- - - - Other |
|
8711.20.19 |
- - - Other |
|
- - Other types: |
||
8711.20.91 |
- - - Off-road motorcycles |
|
8711.20.92 |
- - - Mopeds and motorized bicycles |
|
8711.20.93 |
- - - "pocket motorcycle" |
|
|
- - - Other motorcycles (with or without a trunk next to them), including scooters: |
|
8711.20.94 |
- - - - Type of cylinder capacity over 150 cc but not exceeding 200 cc |
|
8711.20.95 |
- - - - Cylinder capacity over 200 cc but not exceeding 250 cc |
|
8711.20.96 |
- - - - Other |
|
8711.20.99 |
- - - Other |
More details can be found in the Draft Circular of 2017 on Vietnam’s Nomenclature of exports and imports