How to handle inventories under specialized inspections

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Goods imported and exported through Cat Lai port (Ho Chi Minh city), Photo: T. Hoa

This is content to be guided by the General Administration of Vietnam Customs to the Ho Chi Minh city Department of Customs before questions of this unit.

Accordingly, for goods under specialized inspections, point b of term 1 of Article 9 of Circular No. 203/2014/TT-BTC regulates that the members of the handling council of inventories shall include representatives of specialized inspection authorities (if any).

Thus, the inventories should be consulted on policies of specialized inventory inspections before taking them into auctions or direct sales. Chairmen of the handling councils of inventories shall invite representatives of province’s specialized inspection authorities to join the handling council and request the province’s specialized inspection authorities to state their opinions for the handling of inventories before carrying out the next steps.

For goods requiring special inspections of the State, the General Administration of Vietnam Customs has shown that according to Vietnam law, these goods must be under special inspections of the competent authorities and inspections and handling shall be implemented in accordance with specialized laws and international regulations (if any).

For example, handling of shipments of used rubber car tires must be done due to special requirements of the State, only a few of units appointed by the Government are permitted to handle these goods, the handling is strictly controlled by competent authorities. There is no specific list for goods in special inspections of the State.

On the form of handling, depending on specific cases and related regulations, the Ho Chi minh city Department of Customs reports to the General Administration of Vietnam Customs to collaborate with Department of Public Property to report to the Ministry of Finance and submit to the Prime Minister to consider and decide the form of handling. Under the decision of the Government, the Ministry of Finance will organize to handle in compliance with the law.

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According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Customs, to the end of October, 2016, there have been 800 containers of inventories and more than 7.000 imported packages at border gates, seaports and airports in Ho Chi Minh city