Customs Procedures Handling of Exported and Imported Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights.

 On conducting customs procedures for exported or imported goods, the customs authority shall be responsible to inspect and compare the declared information of the goods owners on the written customs declarations on goods’ names, trademarks, origin, value,…; Inspect and compare the concluded contents of the State management agencies on the exported or imported goods; Results of customs dossiers inspection with the results of goods actual inspection; To compare the said inspection results with the laws and regulations on counterfeit goods.

In case the goods are found with intellectual property rights infringement signs, leaders of the Department of Customs where the infringing goods are located shall consider and decide to apply measures to prevent administrative violations and ensure the administrative violations punishment according to Current regulations for the cases:

Imported goods do not comply with goods labeling in accordance with regulations of laws; state inspection conclusion on goods quality or goods quality inspection results determine that the inspected goods do not fulfill requirements on importation and exportation quality; the goods listed in the list of state management agencies that fail to meet quality standards or are not allowed to circulate on the market; The contents stated on the goods labels are incompliant with other enclosed documents and so on.

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Regarding the infringing goods and being temporarily suspended, during the time the goods are being temporarily suspended or subjected to prevention measures as prescribed by laws, the Departments Customs shall be responsible to take the following verification measures: Requesting the goods owner, owners of genuine goods which are counterfeited to provide documentation relating to the goods; cooperating with the goods owners and owners of genuine goods being counterfeited to collect samples and unify the appraisement traders to conduct appraisement; coordinating with the anti-smuggling control forces in verification and investigation according to prescribed profession.

Actions against counterfeit goods or goods with signs of counterfeit

In case the imported, exported goods are detected to be counterfeit, preventive and penalty measures in accordance with legislation on penalties for administrative violations shall be applied;

If exported and imported goods are detected with signs of counterfeit, the Director of the Department of Customs shall request the customs declarant to provide documents related to the goods:

A sale contract of goods or vouchers with equivalent value;

A technical document or a written component analysis (if any).

If the owner of the genuine goods which are counterfeited is determined, the owner of genuine goods which are counterfeited shall provide documents related to goods (such as catalogs, appraisement conclusions, and documents from abroad, results of handling of similar cases). If the owner of the genuine goods could not be determined, customs dossiers, genuine goods, analysis results of the risk information of goods and the law on counterfeit goods shall be utilized for identification; customs control forces shall be cooperated to investigate, verify (if necessary) or transfer information, case files to customs control forces to investigate, verify and handle in accordance with regulations of laws.

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Ordinary customs tariff in force from January 1, 2018

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The Prime Minister has adopted the Decision No. 45/2017/QD-TTg amending and supplementing the Decision No. 36/2016/QD-TTg that prescribes application of ordinary customs duty rates with the following noticeable provisions:

From January 1, 2018 the ordinary import tariff given in the Annex to the Decision No. 45/2017/QD-TTg in place of the Annex given in the Decision No. 36/2016/QD-TTg dated September 1, 2016 will be applied.


The HS schedule of goods which are taxed at the rates subject to the new ordinary customs tariff is established on the basis of the Decree No. 125/2017/ND-CP amending and supplementing the Decree No. 122/2016/ND-CP.

Where imported goods are not specified in this new Tariff Schedule and do not qualify for incentive duty rates or other special treatments referred to in a, b of paragraph 3 Article 5 of the Law on Import and Export Duties, they will be subject to the ordinary duty rate which equals as much as 150% of the incentive customs duty rate stated in the Appendix II of the Decree No. 125/2017/ND-CP .

The Decision No. 45/2017/QD-TTg will enter into force from January 1, 2018.

Source Thuvienphapluat .vn

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What Important Step-by-Step Guide to Establish Company in Vietnam?

When foreign investors invest in Vietnam, they could establish company in Vietnam. Foreign investors have the right to choose the appropriate forms of enterprise such as a limited liability company, joint stock company, etc. with specific steps are as follows:

Step 1: Register the investment project

Investors submit an investment project registration file to the Business Registration office of the province or city or the management board of an industrial zone, an export processing zone or a high-tech zone for the approval of an investment project during the period within 15 days (without time for clarification).

Step 2: Apply for Certificate of investment registration

After approval of the investment project, investors submit a valid record tothe Department of Planning and Investment within 10 days to apply for a business registration certificate.

Step 3: Apply for the certificate of business registration

After obtaining the business registration certificate, the investor shall submit the application for enterprise registration certificate to the enterprise registration office within 3 days.

Step 4: Publish the content of the business registration

After being granted the certificate of enterprise registration, the investor shall disclose information about the enterprise on the national enterprise registration portal within 30 days, including the following information:

i, Business lines;

ii, List of founding shareholders and shareholders being foreign investors for joint-stock companies.

Step 5: Registered business stamp

The enterprise has the right to decide on the form, quantity and contents of the stamp of the enterprise. The content of the stamp must show the following information:

– Company’s name;

– Business code.

After receiving the legal entity stamp and before using the business stamp, the enterprise must send a notice on the stamp of the enterprise to the business registration office for publication in the National Information Portal on the business registration.

Step 6: Notice of use of stamp:

After having stamp made, investors submit notices on use of stamp forms to the Investment registration agency.After receiving the record, the Investment registration agency issues a receipt for the enterprise, publishes the notice of the enterprise on the National Business Information Portal and issues a notice of the posting, stamp samples of enterprises, branches and representative offices for enterprises.

Step 7: Open bank account:

Investors need to open two types of bank accounts, namely the investment capital account to receive the investment amount and the transaction account for conducting daily transaction in Vietnam.

Step 8: The post licensing procedures:

For the conditional business lines:

Investors investing in conditional businesses lines as regulated in Appendix 4 of the Investment Law 2014 must apply certificate of business qualification, practicing certificates, professional liability insurance, legal capital requirements, etc. before conducting business in Vietnam.

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New regulations on application procedures for registration of enterprise establishment

On December 27, 2017 the Government has already issued the Resolution No. 136/NQ-CP on streamlining of administrative procedures and application documentation concerning residence administration under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Accordingly, documentation requirements and contents of application and declaration forms necessary to apply for registration of establishment of enterprises will be subject to changes in the coming time, specifically including:

- In terms of documentation requirements:

Repealing the documentation requirement such as “Citizen Identification card, Identity card, passport or other legally-required documents" for application of registration of enterprises.

- In terms of application and declaration forms:

+ Replacing the regulation regarding “permanent address, nationality, numbers of Citizen Identification card, Identity card, passport or other evidences of legal person" by "personal identification numbers" in the contents of the Request and Certificate of Enterprise Registration.

+ Replacing information about citizen and Citizen Identification in sample documents, forms or declaration sheets, etc., required for registration of enterprises, by "family name, middle name and last name, and personal identification numbers”.

For more details, please read the Resolution No. 136/NQ-CP that will enter into force from the signature date.

Source: Thuvienphapluat.vn

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