Trade and Customs in Vietnam

Navigating the modern environment of international business requires companies that engage in the exchange of goods and services across international borders to be ever vigilant in addressing customs and import controls laws, including those related to border and supply chain security. ANT Lawyers trade and customs practice works to ensure and optimize our clients’ cost- and time-efficient shipment of goods and services across borders, within the confines of the law.

 

Customs Lawyers in Vietnam

We represent clients who engage in such diverse fields as:

-Customs brokerage, express delivery, freight forwarding, logistics and sea and rail transportation

-Apparel, beverages, consumer electronics, cosmetics, food products, footwear, home furnishings, luxury goods and paper products.

Businesses often overlook the fundamental importance of accurate tariff classification and appraisement as sources of potential duty savings and necessary compliance for imported products. These are the “nuts and bolts” of any sophisticated customs and import controls practice, and our Customs lawyers in Vietnam are well versed in this complex body of law to maximize duty savings and minimize customs penalties.

ANT Lawyers, a law firm in Vietnam with customs lawyers in Vietnam always follow up customs cases and its development to update clients on regular basis.

 

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Ordinary customs tariff in force from January 1, 2018

The Prime Minister has adopted the Decision No. 45/2017/QD-TTg amending and supplementing the Decision No. 36/2016/QD-TTg that prescribes application of ordinary customs duty rates with the following noticeable provisions:

From January 1, 2018 the ordinary import tariff given in the Annex to the Decision No. 45/2017/QD-TTg in place of the Annex given in the Decision No. 36/2016/QD-TTg dated September 1, 2016 will be applied. 

The HS schedule of goods which are taxed at the rates subject to the new ordinary customs tariff is established on the basis of the Decree No. 125/2017/ND-CP amending and supplementing the Decree No. 122/2016/ND-CP.

Customs Law firm in Vietnam

Where imported goods are not specified in this new Tariff Schedule and do not qualify for incentive duty rates or other special treatments referred to in a, b of paragraph 3 Article 5 of the Law on Import and Export Duties, they will be subject to the ordinary duty rate which equals as much as 150% of the incentive customs duty rate stated in the Appendix II of the Decree No. 125/2017/ND-CP . 

The Decision No. 45/2017/QD-TTg will enter into force from January 1, 2018.

Source Thuvienphapluat .vn

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