Hanoi Customs: Already recognised over 100 places of inspection in factories and at construction sites

Customs officials of Bac Thang Long Customs Branch inspected import - export goods. Photo: N.Linh

Deputy Head of the Division of Customs Supervision and Control (Hanoi Customs Department) Doan Manh Hai said that the recognition of inspection places at factories and construction sites will facilitate enterprises in carrying out physical inspection of goods, reducing inspection time.

However, not all businesses and any kind of goods can be recognized by the Customs authorities to be inspected at such locations. The place of inspection at construction sites or factories is only applicable to place for gathering and conducting physical inspection of imported machinery, equipment, raw materials, components and supplies for factory constructions, implementing investment projects, serving the production or exports of enterprises within the validity of recognition decisions.

Besides facilitating enterprises to be recognized by the customs authorities as the inspection site at the factory and the construction site, according to Mr. Hai, the regulations should be supplemented to meet the customs inspection requirements. Hanoi Customs Department has also proposed this issue in the draft circular amending and supplementing Circular 38/2015/TT-BTC and Circular 39/2018/TT-BTC.

Accordingly, in the application file for recognizing the location of the enterprise, it is necessary to supplement papers proving the right to use the location (certificate of land use right or contract of land use right); supplementing regulations on conditions to meet the requirements of customs inspection and supervision such as equipping surveillance cameras.

In addition, the Hanoi Customs Department also proposed to extend the time to implement the order and procedures for deciding the location recognition. The reason is that the time limit of 5 working days is not enough to carry out the order and procedures for issuing decision to recognize places, including: examining dossiers, conducting an on-site inspection of warehouses and yards, requesting the General Department of Vietnam Customs to grant location codes and promulgate the recognition decision.