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General Department of Vietnam Customs issued a new Official Letter regulating the inspection and correcting the declaration of Emanifest information.

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New Official Letter regulating the declaration of Emanifest information.

By the end of November 2018, the General Department of Vietnam Customs issued Official Letter No.6889/TCHQ-GSQL regulating the declaration of information on means of transport and import and export goods on the E-manifest system, in order to ensure management of import and export activities, especially in the use of imported scrap as raw materials for production.

According to Official Letter No.6889, the declaration of E-manifest is specified as follows:

1. Declare the information of the Consignee (the importer) in the order: Tax code#Business name#Address

In cases where the imported goods is scrap, the customs declarers shall have to declare the number of Environmental Protection Certificate in the import of discarded materials as raw materials for production (referred to as Environmental Protection Certificates for short), and the Deposit Certificate number, the mandatory order is as follows: Tax code#Environmental Protection Certificate Number#Deposit Certificate Number#Business Name #Address.

***Note: If the  “Consignee” is declared as “To order” or “To order of …”, full details of the “Notify Party” (in assumption as real consignee) must be detailed under instruction similar to the “Consignee” criterion.

 2. HS code declaration:

The HS code must be declared separately in the “HS code” criterion of the declaration of goods and the bill of lading (BL) instead of declaring together with the goods name and description information in the “Description of goods” criterion.

Particularly for the imported goods is scrap, HS codes are required to be declared and corresponding to the names of discarded materials as guided in the Appendix issued together with Official Letter No.6889.

3. Goods names and descriptions: must be declared briefly and in the following order: Commodity Description#Commodity Description. Of which:

– The name of the goods declared on the Emanifest system must use the name of the goods under the corresponding HS list.

– Description of the goods does not declare the  unnecessary and not related content to the information of the goods. The brief description of the goods includes the nature of the goods, packing specifications, number of packages, weight, etc.

For example: scrap paper#20 BAG(S)

4. Declaration of port code and port name:

– The General declaration requires a specific description of the port code and port name.

For example:

+ Port of discharge: VNCMT – VUNG TAU CMIT.

+ Port of Destination: VNCLI – HCMC CATLAI.

+ Port of Loading: NLRTM – ROTTERDAM.

+ Port of Orginal Loading: NLRTM – ROTTERDAM.

– On Goods declaration and BL: information such as port of delivery/port of destination, port of loading, port of original loading, port of discharge are mandatory criteria. If the shipment is in transit, in addition to the above compulsory criteria, additional Port of transhipment/transit criteria are required.

The port code is declared unified, corresponding to the specific port name which was published on the Vietnam National Single Window and on the website of the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Official Letter No. 6889 took effect from the date of signing for cases of export or import goods is discarded materials; for cases of export or import goods which is not scrap, the period of application will start on January 1st 2019.

*** If you have any concern related to Emanifest declaration, don’t hesitate to contact us for more advise: Ms.Cindy (Thúy) / Email: cindy-vn@vantage-logistics.com.vn

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