How to Prepare and Request for Imposition of Anti-dumping Measures in Vietnam?

Organizations or individuals representing a domestic industry (Requesting Party) have the right to submit an application of request for imposition of anti-dumping measures if seeing that goods are dumped thus causing injury to that domestic industry.

 

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The requesting party could themselves prepare or seek legal help from local international trade lawyers for representing and submitting an application of request for imposition of anti-dumping measures in Vietnam.

Following are

Stage 1: Preparation for the application

Application of request for imposition of anti-dumping measures (hereinafter referred to as “Application of request”) includes a written request for imposition of anti-dumping measures (hereinafter referred to as “Written request”) and related documents.

Stage 2: Submitting the application

The Requesting Party must submit one (01) copy of the Application of request to Dumping and Subsidy Investigation Division (hereinafter referred to as “Investigating Authority”) under Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam, Ministry of Industry and Trade, which is located on 23 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. The authority works during office hours from Monday to Friday.

In case of the Requesting Party asks to keep some information in the Application request confidential, Requesting Party must submit two (02) copies of the Application of request which comprise one (01) copy containing public information and one (01) copy containing confidential information. Regarding the confidential information, the Requesting Party must attach a detailed explanation of the request for confidentiality of the information and a summary of the contents of the confidential information that may be disclosed to other relevant parties.

The Investigating Authority shall verify the adequacy and validity of the Application of request and notify the result to the Requesting Party within 15 days from the receipt of the application.

Stage 3: Supplementing the application

In case of the Application of request is not adequate or valid, the Investigating Authority shall request supplementation from the Requesting Party. The time limit for supplementation of the application is decided by the investigating authority but not lower than 30 days from the notification of supplementation.

In case of the Application of request is adequate and valid, the Investigating Authority shall inform the related parties including the Requesting Party about receiving the application and start to verify the content of the Application of request. After this stage, the procedure for submitting an application of request for imposition of anti-dumping measures shall be completed.

In general, the information in the Application request should be adequate and valid. However, to pass the content verification and become a basis for issuing a decision to launch the investigation, the Requesting Party must satisfy the two (02) following conditions:

In terms of the condition of legal status, the Requesting Party must be eligible for the legal representative status of the domestic industry as prescribed in Art. 79(2) and Art. 87(2) of the Law on Foreign Trade Management (Art. 31(2)(a) Decree 10/2018/ND-CP). The Requesting Party shall be regarded as representing a domestic industry when all the following requirements are fully met:

i) The total volume or quantity of similar goods manufactured by the domestic manufacturers that submit the dossier and domestic manufacturers that support the request for application of anti-dumping measures is larger than the total volume or quantity of similar goods manufactured by the domestic manufacturers that oppose such request;

ii) The total volume or quantity of similar goods manufactured by the domestic manufacturers that submit the dossier and domestic manufacturers that support the request for application of anti-dumping measures accounts for at least 25% of the total volume or quantity of similar goods manufactured by the domestic industry concerned.

In terms of the condition of evidence, the Requesting Party should prepare sufficient documents on the dumping on goods imported to Vietnam to prove that the dumping of such goods significant damage, threat to cause significant damage to domestic industry or significant obstruction to the establishment of the domestic industry. The contents that need to be carefully and fully prepared are:

i) Information on the normal price and export price of the described goods in the Written request; dumping margin of the imports subject to investigation of anti-dumping measures;

ii) Information, data and evidences on significant damage, threat to cause significant damage to domestic industry or significant obstruction to the establishment of a domestic industry;

iii) Information, data and evidences on the causal relationship between the import of goods requested to investigate and the damage to domestic industry significant damage, threat to cause significant damage to domestic industry or significant obstruction to the establishment of a domestic industry.

If Client needs any more information or request for legal advice or potential dispute regarding trade remedies measures including, anti-dumping, countervailing duty and safeguard measures or international trade dispute matters, our competition, anti-dumping, and countervailing duty lawyers in Vietnam of International trade and tax practice at ANT Lawyers, a law firm in Vietnam always follow up anti-dumping cases and its development to update clients on regular basis.

 

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What is Agreed Matrimonial Property Regime of Spouses Under Vietnam Laws?

Husband and wife have the right to choose to apply the statutory or agreed property regime. Basic contents of an agreement on the matrimonial property regime (prenuptial agreement) includes: (i) Property determined as common property and separate property of the husband and wife;(ii) Rights and obligations of the husband and wife toward common property, separate property and related transactions; property to meet the family’s essential needs;(iii) Conditions, procedures and principles of property division upon termination of the property regime;(iv) Other related contents.

 

Agreed Matrimonial Property Regime of Spouses Under Vietnam Laws

When choosing to apply the agreed matrimonial property regime, husband and wife may reach agreement on determination of property as follows:(i) Matrimonial property includes common property and separate property of husband and wife;(ii) Husband and wife have no separate property and all property a spouse has before marriage or during the marriage period is common property;(iii) Husband and wife have no common property and all property a spouse has before marriage and during the marriage period is separate property of that spouse;(iv) Property is determined as otherwise agreed by husband and wife.

Although property regime is based on the wills of the parties, it still must comply with regulation of law. Agreed property regime shall be made in writing before their marriage and be notarized or certified. The agreed matrimonial property regime shall be established on the date of marriage registration. It should be noted that in case of applying the agreed matrimonial property regime, when establishing and making a transaction, a spouse shall provide a third party with relevant information. If a spouse fails to perform this obligation, the third party shall be regarded as acting in good faith and have his/her/its interests protected.

An agreement on the matrimonial property regime shall be declared to be invalid by a court when: (i) It fails to meet the conditions on effect of transactions;(ii) It violates one of the provisions in Article 29, 30, 31 or 32 of Law on marriage and family 2014;(iii) Its contents seriously infringe upon the rights of being supported and inherit and other lawful rights and interests of parents, children and other family members.

Specifically, both parties must still comply with the regulations on:

-General principles of the matrimonial property regime: (i) Husband and wife have equal rights and obligations in the creation, possession, use and disposition of their common property without discrimination between housework labor and income-generating labor; (ii) Husband and wife have the obligation to ensure conditions for meeting their family’s essential needs.; (iii) When the performance of property rights and obligations of husband and wife infringes upon lawful rights and interests of the wife, husband, their family or other persons, compensation shall be paid.

-Rights and obligations of husband and wife to meet their family’s essential needs: (i) Husband and wife have the right and obligation to conduct transactions to meet their family’s essential needs; (ii) In case husband and wife have no common property or their common property is not enough to meet their family’s essential needs, they shall contribute their separate property according to their financial capacity.

-Transactions related to the home being the sole domicile of husband and wife and transactions with third parties in good faith related to bank accounts, securities accounts and other movable assets which registration for ownership and use is not required according to regulation of law.

-In summary, although property regime is based on agreement of both parties, this written agreement still must comply with regulation of law and is not allowed to violate rights of other party or any other individual, organization. If such agreement violates above provisions, persons with related rights and interests may request a court to declare it invalid. According to regulation of law, following agencies, organizations and individuals are entitled to require the Court to declare matrimonial property regime of spouse invalid: (i) Spouses have agreed on property regimes; (ii) Person whose right and legal interest violated due to matrimonial property regime of spouse and his/her guardian.

Once property regime agreement is mad, are both parties entitled to edit?

In case of applying the agreed matrimonial property regime during the marriage period, husband and wife may reach agreement to modify and supplement some or all contents of that property regime or apply the statutory matrimonial property regime. The agreement modifying and supplementing the matrimonial property regime shall be notarized or certified in accordance with law. The agreement modifying and supplementing contents of the matrimonial property regime shall take effect on the date it is notarized or certified. A spouse shall provide a third party with relevant information. Property rights and obligations arising before the time of modifying and supplementing the matrimonial property regime must remain legally valid, unless otherwise agreed by involved parties.

Upon divorce, the following case will apply statutory matrimonial property regime, it means that parties will reach agreement, if they fail to reach agreement, at the request of a spouse or both, a court shall settle it according to Law on marriage and family: (i) There is no written agreement of matrimonial property regime of spouse;(ii) Written agreement of matrimonial property regime of spouse is declared completely invalid by the court.

Case will apply agreed matrimonial property regime: There is a written agreement of matrimonial property regime and this written agreement is not declared completely invalid by the Court. The following cases will apply provisions of Law on marriage and family:(i) The agreement is insufficient or unclear;(ii) The matters are not agreed by both husband and wife.

It is important that spouses consult with marriage and family dispute lawyers in Vietnam if potential disputes would lead to divorce for proper preparation before filing a lawsuit.

ANT Lawyers – a Divorce Dispute Law Firm in Vietnam has experience lawyers with divorce procedures or dispute matters of marriage, assets, properties in Vietnam. For advice or service request, please contact us via email ant@antlawyers.vn, or call us +84 24 730 86 529

 

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What Bona Fide Possession of Property Are and How the Rights Are protected?

Possession in good faith means the possession that the possessor has bases to believe that he/she has the right to the property in Vietnam under his/her possession. Bona fide possessor is protected by the law on property rights. Owning this type of property might be subject to many potential disputes which parties should consult with dispute lawyers in Vietnam from time to time to understand his/her rights to the property.

 

Bona fide Possession of Property in Vietnam

According to Clause 3 Article 184 of the 2015 Civil Code, a person possessing in good faith, continuously and overtly shall be eligible for prescriptive periods for enjoying the rights and enjoy the yield and income derived from the property as prescribed in this Code and relevant laws.

A person possessing in good faith is entitled to protect his/her rights and his right to possession when meeting specific conditions. Before a third person entered into a civil transaction, a prior civil transaction was established, the previous civil transactions were invalidated. Besides, the third person establishing civil transactions must be honest. Property traded in accordance with law and civil transactions must be compensated.

The owner has the right to reclaim the property from the rightful owner in accordance with Article 167 and Article 168 of the Civil Code 2015. Accordingly, depending on the type of property subject to ownership registration or not, the reclaim of ownership of the owner has a certain difference. Specifically, owners may reclaim movable property not subject to ownership right registration from bona fide possessors in cases where such bona fide possessors have acquired such property through unindemnifiable contracts with persons who have no right to dispose of the property; in case of indemnifiable contracts, the owners may reclaim the movable property if such movable property has been stolen, lost or other cases of possession against the owners’ will.

Owners may reclaim their movable property subject to ownership right registration and immovable property, except for cases where a civil transaction is invalid but the transacted property is registered at a competent authority and such property has already been transferred to a bona fide third party through another transaction which is established according to that registration, such transaction shall remain valid.

In cases where the transacted property which is required to be registered has not registered at a competent authority, the transaction with the third party shall be invalid, except for cases the bona fide third party received such property through an auction or a transaction with an another party being the owner of such property pursuant to a judgment or decision of a competent authority but thereafter such person is not the owner of the property as a result of the judgment or decision being amended or annulled.

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Opposition of Applications for Registration of the Mark Protection in Vietnam

Vietnam Law on Intellectual Property allows any third party to have right to denounces the opposition of trademark applications for registration which have identical or confusingly similar signs.

As from the date an application for registration of mark is published in the Official Gazette of Industrial Property up until prior to the date of issuance of a decision on grant of a protection title, the third party shall express the opposition to the competent State administrative body including explanations, argument and evidence the opinion. Such opinions must be made in writing and be accompanied by documents or must quote the source of information.

 

Trademark opposition in Vietnam

Opposition to trademark applications plays a great role for the protection of trademark owner that prevents counterfeiting, duplication, infringement and trademark registration in contravention of law.

Documents:

01 Power of attorney (as form)

Documents and evidences to prove the opposition bases.

(ANT Lawyers could consult client specifically and particularly about the evidences and documents).

Opposition procedures

After receiving a disapproval application for registration of mark, National Office Intellectual Property (NOIP) has a dispatch to answer the disapproval application within 10 working days from date received a dossier. NOIP also sends disapproval opinions to owners of application for registration of mark protection.

Owners of application for registration of mark protection has opinions about this disagreement and give proofs that the application for registration of mark protection is suitable with requirement of Intellectual Property law

NOIP is pursuant to argument, proof and regulation law of parties for agree or refuse to grant a protection title

Opposition dossier includes:

Disapproval declaration (02 copies following form)

Explanation documents for disagreement of protection title issue

Attachment proofs.

Power of attorney (if an application is filed through representative of owner’s mark)

Fee, charge vouchers relating disagreement following regulations in law.

Duration

There is no duration stipulation in Vietnamese law. As our usual, NOIP will take from 6 months to 9 months to examine.

If you are looking for an experienced IP services in Vietnam to help you with your Trademark application, you should visit ANT Lawyers.vn. Our attorneys have experience with the IP process and will work closely with you as you apply for your Trademark in Vietnam. 

 

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