The list of prohibited imports commodity into Vietnam is currently stipulated in the Appendix I issued together with Government’s Decree No. 69/2018/NĐ-CP dated May 15, 2018 on guidelines for the Law on Foreign trade management, as below:
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No. |
Description |
Ministry or ministerial-level agency in charge |
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1 |
Weapons, ammunitions, explosives (excluding industrial explosives), military technical equipment. | The Ministry of National Defense |
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2 |
Assorted fireworks (excluding signal fires used for navigational safety under the guidance of the Ministry of Transport), sky lanterns, assorted devices causing interference to vehicle speedometers. | The Ministry of Public Security |
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3 |
a) Schedule-1 toxic chemicals defined in the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and Annex to the Government’s Decree No. 38/2014/ND-CP dated May 6, 2014 on the management of chemicals under control in the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.
b) Chemicals under the list of banned chemicals prescribed in Appendix III to the Government’s Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP dated October 9, 2017 on guidelines for certain articles of the Law on Chemicals. |
The Ministry of Industry and Trade |
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4 |
Used consumer goods, medical equipment, and vehicles including the following commodity groups:
a) Textiles and garments, footwear, clothes; b) Electronic appliances. c) Refrigerating appliances. d) Home electric appliances. đ) Medical equipment. e) Interior decoration goods. g) Home appliances made of pottery, ceramic, glass, metal, plastic, rubber, and other materials. h/ Bicycles. i) Motorcycles and mopeds. |
The Ministry of Industry and Trade |
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5 |
Assorted cultural products banned from dissemination and circulation or decided to be suspended from dissemination and circulation, or subject to revocation, confiscation and destruction in Vietnam. | The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism |
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6 |
Goods being used information technology products. | The Ministry of Information and Communications |
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7 |
a) Assorted publications banned from dissemination and circulation in Vietnam.
b) Postage stamps banned from trading, exchange, display and dissemination in accordance with the Law on Post. c) Radio equipment and radio-wave appliances which do not comply with radio frequency master plans and relevant technical regulations in accordance with the Law on Radio Frequencies. |
The Ministry of Information and Communications |
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8 |
a/ Right-hand drive means of transport (including those in knocked-down forms and those with converted drive before being imported in Vietnam), excluding special-use right-hand drive vehicles operating within a restricted location and not joining traffic, including: crane trucks; canal diggers, street sweepers, street washers; garbage trucks; road builders; passenger cars in airports and lifting trucks in warehouses and ports; concrete-pumping vehicles; vehicles moving only within golf courses or parks.
b/ Assorted automobiles, four-wheeled drives and their spare parts which have their frame or engine numbers erased, modified or tampered with. c) Trailers, semi-trailers which have their frame erased, modified or tampered. d) Assorted motorcycles, special-use motorbikes and motorbikes which have their frame or engine numbers erased, modified or tampered with. |
The Ministry of Transport |
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9 |
Used supplies and vehicles, including:
a) Engines, frames, inner tubes, tires, spare parts and motors of cars, trailers, semi-trailers, four-wheeled drives. b) Chassis of cars and tractors, fitted with engines (including new chassis fitted with used engines and used chassis fitted with new engines), c) Assorted cars which have been transformed in structure compared with their original designs. d) Cars, trailers, semi-trailers (other than dedicated trailers and semi-trailers), used passenger four-wheeled motor vehicles over 5 years, from the manufacture year to the import year. đ) Ambulances. |
The Ministry of Transport |
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10 |
Chemicals in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention. | The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
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11 |
Pesticides banned from use in Vietnam. | The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
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12 |
a) Samples of precious, rare and endangered animals and plants under Appendix I of CITES derived from natural resources being exported for commercial purpose.
b) Samples and processed products of species: white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), African elephants (Loxodonta africana). |
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
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13 |
Wastes and scraps, refrigerating equipment using C.F.C. | The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment |
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14 |
Products and materials containing asbestos of the amphibole group. | The Ministry of Construction |