Obtaining Import and Export Licenses

Trường Thành Logistics specializes in providing consulting and application services for import and export licenses for a wide range of goods, including agricultural products, animals and animal products, precursor chemicals, and printing machinery.

We offer an import license application service for conditional import goods as stipulated by law.

Below is a list of goods whose import into Vietnam requires a license, categorized by their managing ministry.

I. Goods Managed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT)

1. Line guns.
2. Goods subject to import control as regulated by international treaties to which Vietnam is a signatory, as announced by the Ministry of Industry and Trade from time to time.
3. Goods subject to the automatic import license regime: The Ministry of Industry and Trade announces the list of these goods from time to time and organizes the issuance of licenses in accordance with current licensing regulations.
4. Goods subject to a tariff quota regime:
   • Salt
   • Raw tobacco
   • Poultry eggs
   • Refined sugar, raw sugar The Ministry of Industry and Trade specifies the HS codes for these goods in the Import and Export Tariff Schedule.
5. Chemicals and chemical-containing products:
   • Group 2 chemicals and Group 3 chemicals (according to Appendix 1 of Decree No. 100/2005/ND-CP).
   • Precursors used in industry (according to the Law on Drug Prevention and Control and its guiding documents).
6. Explosive precursors and industrial explosive materials.
7. Tobacco raw materials, tobacco products, cigarette rolling paper; specialized machinery and equipment for tobacco production and their spare parts.

II. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of Transport (MOT)

1. Various signal flares for maritime safety. (The Ministry of Transport announces the list with correct HS codes in the Import and Export Tariff Schedule).

III. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)

1. Veterinary medicines and raw materials for their production, registered for the first time for import into Vietnam.
2. Biological products, microbiological products, and chemicals used in veterinary medicine, registered for the first time for import into Vietnam.
3. Plant protection products and raw materials for their production that are not on the list of products permitted for use in Vietnam. Plant protection products and raw materials on the list of restricted-use products.
4. Animal breeds not on the list of breeds permitted for production and trade in Vietnam; various insects not yet present in Vietnam; semen and embryos of animal breeds imported for the first time into Vietnam.
5. Plant varieties and living organisms in the field of plant protection, and other items on the list of objects subject to plant quarantine that must undergo pest risk analysis before being imported into Vietnam.
6. Plant varieties not on the list of varieties permitted for production and trade in Vietnam, imported for research, trial production, international cooperation, as samples for exhibitions, as gifts, or to implement investment programs and projects.
7. Animal feed and raw materials for animal feed production; aquatic feed and raw materials for aquatic feed production not on the list of products permitted for circulation in Vietnam.
8. Fertilizers not on the list of products permitted for production, trade, and use in Vietnam.
9. Genetic resources of plants, animals, and microorganisms for research and scientific and technical exchange.
10. Wild animals and plants that require import control as stipulated by the CITES Convention, which Vietnam has committed to implementing.
11. Raw materials for producing biological products, microbiological products, chemicals, and environmental treatment substances for aquaculture. Finished products on the list of products permitted for circulation in Vietnam or on the list of conditionally imported products. Finished products not yet named on the list of products permitted for circulation in Vietnam or on the list of conditionally imported products.
12. Aquatic breeds that are normally imported. Conditionally imported aquatic breeds. Aquatic breeds not on the list of normally permitted imports for the first time into Vietnam.
13. Live aquatic products for food on the list of products that are normally imported. Live aquatic products for food that are not on the list of live aquatic species permitted for import for food in Vietnam.

IV. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)

1. Scrap materials.

V. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC)

1. Various types of publications (books, newspapers, magazines, paintings, photos, calendars).
2. Postage stamps, stamp publications, and other stamp-related items.
3. Microwave equipment and radio transmission/reception equipment with a frequency band between 9KHz and 400 GHz and a power output of 60mW or more.
4. Specialized prepress and typesetting systems for the printing industry.
5. Various types of printing machines (offset, Flexo, rotogravure) and color photocopiers.

VI. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MOCST)

1. Cinematographic works and other audiovisual products recorded on any material.
2. Plastic arts, applied arts, paintings, and photographs.
3. Video game machines with prize-awarding programs and specialized equipment for casino games.
4. Children’s toys.

VII. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of Health (MOH)

1. Narcotic drugs, psychotropic drugs, precursors for medicinal use, and radiopharmaceuticals (including finished products in single-ingredient or combined form).
2. Finished drugs for human disease prevention and treatment that have been issued a registration number.
3. Finished drugs for human disease prevention and treatment that have not been issued a registration number.
4. Raw materials for drug production, medicinal materials, excipients, drug capsules, and direct drug-contact packaging materials, newly used in Vietnam.
5. Cosmetics that directly affect human health.
6. Vaccines and medical biological products without a registration number.
7. Medical equipment with the potential to directly affect human health, not on the list of imported goods that can be imported based on demand.
8. Chemicals and preparations for insect and bacteria control used in household and medical fields.
9. Chemicals and preparations for insect and bacteria control used in household and medical fields that have not been granted a registration certificate for circulation in Vietnam.
10. Cosmetics that have not been issued a declaration receipt number, imported for research or testing purposes.

VIII. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)

1. Metal blanks used for minting and stamping coins.
2. Vault doors (according to technical standards regulated by the State Bank of Vietnam).
3. Banknote paper.
4. Banknote ink.
5. Anti-counterfeiting blank presses and anti-counterfeiting blanks for use on banknotes, bank drafts, and other valuable documents and papers issued and managed by the Banking sector.
6. Banknote printing machines (according to technical standards announced by the State Bank of Vietnam).
7. Coin minting and stamping machines (according to technical standards announced by the State Bank of Vietnam).

IX. Goods Subject to Specialized Management by the Ministry of National Defense (MOD)

1. Motor vehicles for transporting 10 or more people, including the driver (Armored types without military weapons, excluding CKD form).
2. Motor vehicles and other motor vehicles primarily designed for transporting people (excluding those in group 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars (Armored types without military weapons, excluding CKD form).
3. Motor vehicles for transporting goods (Armored types without military weapons, excluding CKD form).
4. Other flying vehicles (e.g., helicopters, airplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and orbital spacecraft, and launchers for spacecraft (Only applies to airplanes and helicopters not used in civil aviation and not equipped with combat gear-weapons).
5. Other weapons (e.g., spring-powered, air, or gas guns and pistols, batons), except for those in group 93.07.
6. Other types (paintball guns, paintball pistols, line-throwing guns).
7. Colorants for art, school, or sign painting; prepared pigments, opacifiers, and similar colors in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, palettes, or similar forms or packaging.
8. Other types (paintballs).

Legal Basis:

• Appendix II of Decree 187/2013/ND-CP
• Decree 70/2016/ND-CP
• Appendix II of Circular 04/2014/TT-BCT

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