RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
19 April 1999
(99-1550)
Working Party on the
Accession of VietnamOriginal:  English
ACCESSION OF VIETNAM
Additional Questions and Replies
Addendum
The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has submitted the following Annexes
referred to in the replies to additional questions raised concerning the Memorandum on the ForeignTrade Regime of Vietnam (document WT/ACC/VNM/6).  The Annexes are reproduced hereunder.
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ANNEX 1
Fees for Customs Clearance at Other Places
(other than officially prescribed places for customs clearance) As Required By Cargo-Owners
No. Goods Unit Rate for 1 time of
procedure
clearing (VND)
1 Ordinary cargo
- Bulk cargo, cargo contained in bags, jars, liquid cargo
contained in drums, tanks and reservoirs
+ Minimum rate for cargo of less than 1m3 or 1 ton procedure
clearing20,000
+ Average rate of 1,000 VND for each m3 or each ton
exceeding 2 m3 or 2 tonstimes/ton or m31,000
• Particularly, in respect of sand, stone, gravel, salt,
coal, insecticide, 1/2 of the projected rate will
apply.1/2 of projected
rate
• In respect of petrol and oil, 2/3 of the projected rate
will apply2/3 of projected
rate
2 Ordinary cargo in container
- Intact cargo container 50,000
- Bulk cargo container 100,000
-  Particularly:
  + Automobiles of all kinds piece 15,000
  + Mopeds, motorcycles piece 5,000
3 Gold, silver and gemstone
- Rate for amount of less than 1 tael (37.5 gr.) procedure
clearing times15,000
- Average rate for amount exceeding 2nd tael 37.5 gr. 1,000WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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Customs Warehousing Fee
No. Items Unit Rate of
warehousing fees
for 1 night and day
(VND)
GOODS OF SUBSTANTIAL VALUE
1 Automobiles of all kinds
- Vehicles of large tonnage (trucks, minibuses, etc.) piece 50,000
- Sedan cars, minibuses with less than 15 seats piece 30,000
2 Mopeds, motorcycles piece 10,000
3 Computers, fax machines, photocopiers piece 10,000
4 Air conditioners, radios, cassette players, communication
sets, televisions, video playerspiece 5,000
5 Gold tael (37.5 gr.) 7,000
6 Gemstones tael 10,000
7 Other goods of equivalent value in excess of 18.93 gr. of
gold at the time of consignmentpiece 5,000
ORDINARY CARGO
8 A crate of cargo less than 1 m3 or 1 ton crate 5,000
9 A crate of cargo in excess of 1 m3 or 1 ton m3/ton 10,000
10 Small postal parcels of less than VND 200,000 in value parcel 1,000
11 Small postal parcels of value in excess of  VND 200,000 parcel 2,000WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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Fees for Escorting Cargo
No. Means of Transport - Route of Escort Unit Rate of fee
(VND)
1 Automobiles
- less than 100 km piece 40,000
- from 100 km to 150 km piece 80,000
- on each 50 km in excess of 150 km piece 30,000
2T r a i n s
- less than 100 km car 35,000
- from 100 km to 200 km car 80,000
- on each 50 km in excess of 200 km car 20,000
3 Ships
(a) Fees for ships of tonnage less than 300 tons as for riveror sea barges
(b) Ships of tonnage from 300 tons to 1,000 tons
- less than 200 km of escort piece 300,000
- from 200 km to 300 km of escort piece 600,000
- for each 50 km in excess of 300 km of escort piece 100,000
(c) Ships of tonnage in excess of 1,000 tons
- less than 200 km of escort piece 500,000
- from 200 km to 300 km of escort piece 1,000,000
- for each 50 km in excess of 300 km piece 150,000
4 River or  barges and ships of tonnage less than 300 tons
- less than 200 km of escort piece 200,000
- from 200 km to 300 km of escort piece 250,000
- for each 50 km in excess of 300 km piece 50,000
5B o a t s
- less than 100 km of escort piece 50,000
- from 100 km to 150 km of escort piece 100,000
- from 150 km to 200 km of escort piece 150,000
- in excess of 200 km of escort piece 200,000WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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ANNEX 2
Transit Fees for Goods, Luggage and Vehicles
No Vehicles - Route of Transit Unit  Rate of fee
Vietnamese
owner
(VND)Foreign
owner
(US$)
1 Automobiles
- less than 100 km piece 50,000 5
- from 100 km to 150 km piece 70,000 7
- from 150 km to 200 km piece 90,000 9
- for each 50 km in excess of 200 km piece 20,000 2
2T r a i n s
- less than 100 km car 60,000 6
- from 100 km to 150 km car 90,000 9
- from 150 km to 200 km car 120,000 12
- for each 50 km in excess of 200 km car 30,000 3
3 Ships
(a) Ships of tonnage from 300 tons to 1,000 tons
- less than 100 km piece 100,000 10
- from 100 km to 200 km piece 200,000 20
- from 200 km to 300 km piece 300,000 30
- from 300 km to 400 km piece 400,000 40
- for each 50 km in excess of 400 km piece 50,000 5
(b) Ships of tonnage of 1,000 tons to 3,000 tons
- less than 200 km piece 250,000 25
- from 200 km to 300 km piece 400,000 40
- from 300 km to 400 km piece 650,000 65
- from 400 km to 500 km piece 900,000 90
- More than 500 km piece 1,500,000 150
(c) Ships of tonnage of 3,000 tons to 5,000 tons
- less than 200 km piece 600,000 60
- from 200 to 300 km piece 800,000 80
- from 300 km to 400 km piece 1,000,000 100WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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No Vehicles - Route of Transit Unit  Rate of fee
Vietnamese
owner
(VND)Foreign
owner
(US$)
- from 400 km to 500 km piece 1,500,000 150
- more than 500 km piece 2,000,000 200
(d) Ships of tonnage more than 5,000 tons
- less than 200 km piece 1,000,000 100
- from 200 km to 300 km piece 1,500,000 150
- from 300 km to 400 km piece 2,000,000 200
- from 400 km to 500 km piece 2,500,000 250
- from 500 km to 600 km piece 3,000,000 300
- more than 600 km piece 3,500,000 350WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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ANNEX 3
List of Industrial Products Subject to Export Requirement of 80% of Output
(Attached to Decision No. 229/1998/QD-BKH dated 29 April 1998)
No. Description of goods
1 Motorcycles
2 Minibuses, trucks  of less than 10 ton tonnage
3 Irrigating pumps of capacity less than 30,000 m3/h, pumps used for everyday lives of
capacity less than 540 m3/h
4 Medium and low voltage electric transmission cables
5 Normal transmission cables
6 Cargo ships of tonnage less than 30,000 tons, fishing ships of less than 1,000 CV, water
boats, canoes, barges (this is applicable to 100% foreign invested projects)
7 Audio-visual products
8 Aluminium profiles products
9 Construction glasses in large use ( ∅ < 40 mm)
10 Floor or wall tiles, Sanitary ceramic fixtures
11 NPK fertilizers
12 Cleaning and washing preparations
13 Ordinary paints and paints for construction purposes
14 Accu (lead + acid)
15 PVC
16 Tyres and inner tubes of bicycles and motorcycles
17 NaOH and H 2SO 4, HCl
18 Electric fans
19 Bicycles and bicycle parts
20 Transformers under 35 KV
21 Diesel motors under 15 CV
22 Garments
23 Footwear
24 Home plastic appliancesWT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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ANNEX 4
Rates of Export duties
No.  Commodity Group and Individual Items Rate
%
0300 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates.
03010 Fish, live, fresh or chilled of heading 030200; frozen fish of heading
030300; fillets fish of heading 030400.    0
0306 Crustaceans (shrimp and crab) whether in shell or not, live, fresh,
chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; crustaceans, in shell, cooked
by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen, dried; salted or in brine;
and molluscs whether in shell or not, and other aquatic invertebrates
of heading 030700, live, fresh, frozen, dried, salted or in brine.
- Shrimps and prawns, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried of all kinds    0
- Crabs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen of all kinds     0
- Cuttlefish, octopus and squid, live, frozen, chilled, dried of all kinds     0
- Others of heading 0300      0
080100 Coconuts, cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled      0
Except:
08013010 - Cashew nuts, unprocessed     4
08013090 - Cashew nuts, processed     0
090100 - Coffee, whether or not roasted and decaffeinated, coffee substitutes
containing coffee in any proportion    0
Except:
- Coffee, not roasted     0
090200 - Tea of all kinds     0
090400 - Pepper, dried chilly fruits, crushed or ground 0
100500 Maize of all kinds 1
1006 Rice  of all kinds
100610 - Rice with broken more than 25% 0
100690 - Other 1
121100 Plants and parts of plants (including seeds, fruits), of a kind
used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy, or for insecticide,
fungicide or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut,
crushed or powdered.0
12119010 - Aguilaria crassna and other aloe      20
140100 Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (e.g.
bamboo, rattans, reeds, rushes, oster, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed
cereal straw).     0
Except:
- Rattans, unprocessed      10
- Rattans, bleached, head - boiled, dyed or dried      3
160400 Prepared fish, caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs      0WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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No.  Commodity Group and Individual Items Rate
%
160500 Prepared products from crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic
invertebrates     0
2600 Ores, slag and ash.      0
Except:
260100 - Iron ores and concentrates      1
260200 - Manganese ores and concentrates      10
260300 - Copper ores and concentrates and ores of heading 260400, 260500      2
260600 - Aluminium ores and concentrates and ores of heading 260800      5
260700 - Lead ores and concentrates     5
260900 - Tin ores and concentrates     20
261000 - Chromium ores and concentrates, ores of heading 261100, 261200,
261300, 261400, 261500, 261600, 261700   1
261100 Tungsten ores, enriched tungsten ores and other ores of heading
261200, 261300, 261400, 261500, 261600, 2617002
270110 Coal     0
270120 Briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal      0
270900 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude      0
Except:
27090010 - Crude oil      4
400100 Natural rubber, balata, gutta percha, guayule, chide      0
and similar natural gums, in primary forms (including
latex) or in plates, sheets or strips.
Except:
400110 - Natural rubber latex      0
400120 - Natural rubber in other forms      0
410000 Raw hides and skins (other than furs skins) and   leather :
- Raw hides and skin of bovine or equine animals (fresh, or salted,
limed, pickled)    10
 Other     0
4400 Wood and articles of wood
Of natural wood
- Round wood 20
- Sawn wood      20
- Parquet panels, shingle and shakes      20
- Bar for electric pole, railway sleepers of various kinds      20
- Poles of wood (electric poles, master pole for house etc.)      20
- Door frames, window frames, frames and thresholds      15
- Stairs or details of stairs      15
- Coffins 15
- Vehicle frames, chassis frames and thereof, 15WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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No.  Commodity Group and Individual Items Rate
%
- Pallets, shuttering 15
- Pallet and load selves for stock 15
- Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums, and high class packing(containing liquids) and thereof10
- Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums, and ordinary packing      10
- Foots and roots of various kinds      10
- Completed doors, windows and thereof      10
- Refined wooden panels for domestic or decoration use (planks for
ceiling decoration,  wall covering boards, finished parquet panels -
chipped, planed, grooved, rebated10
- Finished blackboard for teachers and thereof 10
- Wooden frames of paintings, photographs mirrors, finished book
shelves and thereof5
- Wooden painting, wooden statuettes 5
- Finished wooden table ware, chairs, wardrobe (including wall
wardrobe), beds and thereof0
-- bed of wood (wood parquetry and inlaid or with the addition of
other materials such as come, resin, leather)0
-- Other 5
- Particle boards made of shavings (whether of not concentrated or
containing added other materials)5
- Wood wool (whether of not concentrated or containing other
materials) 5
- Plywood, wood wool, wood of particle board 7
- Shaving of wood 10
- Coal derived from wood (charcoal) 5
- Other wooden items not elsewhere specified, without other materials 5
- Other wooden items not elsewhere specified, but combine other
materials0
Of wood from planted forestry
- Round woods 20
- Sawn woods, parquet panels, bar for electronic poles, railways
sleepers, poles of wood15
- Shaving of wood 10
- Above mentioned wooden products with export tariff 15% or 10% of
wood from natural5
Above mentioned wooden products with export tariff 7%, 5% or 0%
of wood from natural0
710300 Synthetic or reconstructed pr ecious or semi-precious stones
(other than diamonds), whether or not worked or graded
but not strung mounted or set; ungraded synthetic
or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones(other than
diamonds), temporarily strung for convenience of transport.
- Precious tones and semi-precious stones whether not worked      5WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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No.  Commodity Group and Individual Items Rate
%
- Precious tones and semi-precious stones whether worked      1
710500 Dust and powder of precious stones of heading 710300      3
720000 Iron and steel      0
Except:
720400 - Ferrous waste and scrap of iron      35
720700 - Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel and iron and steel
of heading 720600     2
740000 Copper and copper articles      0
 Except:
740400 - Copper waste and scrap      45
740700 - Copper bars, rods and profiles and copper of heading 740500,
740600, 740700, 740800, 740900, 741000     15
750000 Nickel and nickel articles      0
Except:
750300 - Nickel waste and scrap      45
750500 - Nickel bars, rods and profiles, nickel of heading 750400, 750600      5
760000 Aluminium and aluminium articles      0
Except:
760200 - Aluminium waste and scrap      45
760400 - Aluminium bars, rods and profiles and aluminium of heading
760300, 760500, 760600, 760700     5
780000 Lead and lead articles      0
Except:
780200 - Lead waste and scrap      45
780300 - Lead bars, rods and profiles, lead of heading 780400      10
790000 Zinc and articles thereof      0
Except:
790200 - Zinc waste and scrap      45
790400 - Zinc bars, rods and profiles, zinc of heading 790300, 790500      5
8000 Tin and tin articles      0
 Except:
800200 - Tin waste and scrap      45
800400 - Tin bars, rods and profiles and tin of heading 790300, 790500      5
8100 - Other base metals, cermets; articles thereof      0
Except:
- Base metal waste and scrap      45
- Metal semi-finished products      10
Other goods not mentioned above (excluding goods mentioned in
import - export minimum tax tariff of  Council of Ministers). 0WT/ACC/VNM/6/Add.1
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ANNEX 5
Licensed and Imported Value/Quantity of Some of the Goods Listed in
Annex 3 of WT/ACC/VNM/3/Add.1
Licensed
in 1997Imported in 1997 Licensed
in 19981
No. Description Unit Quantity Quantity Value
(mill. US$)Quantity
1 Motor cars and other motor
vehicles
- under 12 seats piece 2,000 2,512 25.6 NA
- more than 12 seats piece 844 8.1 NA
- Trucks piece 20,000 8,233 54.1 NA
2 Assembling kits
- Under 12 seats set NA 2,800 31.3 NA
- Others set NA 2,012 20.9 NA
3 Iron and steel 1,000 tons 1,400 1,320 484 NA
- Steel billet 1,000 tons 900 522 135.8 NA
4 Mineral or chemical
fertilizers1,000 tons 3,170 2,458 424.9 4,235
- Ure 1,000 tons 1,800 1,448 241.9 2,220
5 Petrol and petrol products 1,000 tons 6,500 5,947 1,094 7,000
6 Papers of 1,000 tons NA 147 95 NA
7 Motor cycles 1,000 pieces 350 247.3 242 NA
- CBU 1,000 pieces 100 149 129.5 0
- Parts (CKD) 1,000 sets 250 98 113 100
8 Cement 1,000 tons NA 878 51.7 90
9 Clinker 1,000 tons NA 874.5 40 NA
10 Sugar 1,000 tons 65 65 20.7 121
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1 As of October 1998