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26 April, 2017 / By Vietrans Admin / General • News/ electronic • equipment • prohibited • used/ 0 Comments

USED ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT IS PROHIBITED FROM IMPORT

VCN- Customs Newspaper received a question about the import of electronic equipment from Japan and policy on import duty for this item.

A shipment of refrigerating and electronic household appliances banned from import, which was seized by the Customs at the Tan Cang – Cai Mep International Port. Photo by Nguyen Hue.

Regarding the question, the Legal Consultancy Team of Customs Newspaper shall consult as follows:

Pursuant to the Ministry of Information and Communication’s Circular No. 31/2015/TT-BTTTT guiding a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No.187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013, on export and import activities, used electronic products are subject to prohibition from import.

The reader should study the list of banned goods from export or import (Issued together with the Government’s Decree No. 187/2013 / ND-CP dated November 20, 2013) to implement in compliance with regulations. This list applies for export and import of commercial goods and non-commercial goods; Exports and imports in border areas; Government and non-government aids.

By Legal Consultancy team of the Customs newspaper/ Ngoc Loan

Source: http://customsnews.vn/

7 April, 2017 / By Vietrans Admin / General • News/ prohibited • smuggle • Transit • used/ 0 Comments

A SH MOTORBIKE SMUGGLED IN A CONTAINER IN TRANSIT

VCN – on the morning of April 5, 2017, the Cai Mep port border gate Customs Sub-Department collaborated with Customs Control Team under the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Customs Department to conduct an actual inspection for a container in transit and discovered many smuggled and banned items including 01 used Honda SH 150i motorbike.

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The SH150i motorbike was hidden in the center of container and surrounded by other commodities such as beer, milk, acoustic audio speakers and supplementary food

Earlier, on April 3, 2017, Madame Anime Inc Co., Ltd submitted to the sub-Department a dossier of goods in transit and Customs declaration on 100% new consumer goods, which will be exported through the Hoa Lu international border gate, Binh Phuoc province

Through examining dossier and checking with commodities declared on the E-manifest and collecting information, the Customs officers discovered that the commodities declared were unclear and insufficient; and the items on the Customs declaration were missing such as: name of the ship, date of arrival, container number, seal number and carrier. It was suspected that there was fraud in commodities, the Customs officers asked for a physical inspection

On the morning of April 5, 2017, the Cai Mep port border gate Customs Sub-Department collaborated with the Customs Control Team to inspect and detect that there were a lot of used goods such as: acoustic audio speakers, amplifiers, music disc, beverage, beer and milk. Especially, there was 01 Honda SH 150i hidden in the center of the container.

The Cai Mep port border gate Customs Sub-Department has still unloaded the commodities to inspect and handle.