Import Facial care equipment into Vietnam

Customs procedures; import duty and transportation

You want to export Facial care equipment to Vietnam? You need to calculate freight from export warehouse to Vietnam? You want to know about Vietnam’s procedure and import duties on importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam?  Import procedures for Facial care equipment?

In this article, Logistics HP Global Vietnam, whose many years in providing freight and logistics services import Facial care equipment from many countries to Vietnam, will share knowledge and advise on above issues.

HS code and import duty of Facial care equipment in Vietnam 

HS code of Facial care equipment in Vietnam

In importing/exporting any commodity, In order to properly determine duties, policies, procedures of the commodity, one of the first thing needed to determine is the HS code of the commodity

Facial care equipment under chapter 85: Electrical machines and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of the foregoing

VAT and preferential import duty on Facial care equipment to Vietnam in 2024

HS Code	Descriptions	VAT	Preferential Import duty	Normal import tax
8543	Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
85437090	– – Other	10%	0%	5%

The classification of a product to a certain HS code is based on the nature, composition, …. of the actual exported commodity at the import time, based on catalogue, technical documents (if any) or /and decided by the Customs Department of Commodity Verification. The actual inspection results of the Customs and announcement by the Customs Department of Commodity Verification are legal basis for applying HS code to imported goods. Importers are ultimately responsible for ensuring that the products are correctly classified.

Our above advised HS codes are for reference only.

→ For more information about this content, please refer to the article Definition of HS code in Vietnam

Duties, Taxes on importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam:

When importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam, the importer needs to pay import value added tax (VAT) and Import duty. The above table shows VAT and Preferential Import duty based on HS code

Currently, Vietnam have signed FTA with more than 50 countries in the world. In case Facial care equipment is imported from countries with free trade agreements with Vietnam, they may enjoy special preferential import duties if they meet the conditions set by the agreement.

Special Preferential Import duty of Facial care equipment to Vietnam year 2024 under some FTAs:

HS Code	ATIGA	ACFTA		AKFTA		AJCEP		VJEPA		AIFTA	AANZFTA	VKFTA	CPTPP		AHKFTA
	2024	2022 – 2027	Countries do not enjoy preferential treatment	2022 – 2027	Countries do not enjoy preferential treatment	1/4/2023 – 31/3/2024	1/4/2024 – 31/03/2025	01/4/2023 – 31/3/2024	01/4/2024 – 31/3/2025	31/12/2023 – 30/12/2024	2022 – 2027	2024	2024 Mexico	2024 CPTTP countries other than Mexico	2024
85437090	0	0		0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

 

Mã HS	EVFTA	UKVFTA	RCEP						VCFTA	VNCBFTA	Việt – Lào	VN – EAEU FTA
			ASEAN	Australia	Trung Quốc	Nhật Bản	Hàn Quốc	New Zealand
	2024	2024	2024	2024	2024	2024	2024	2024	2024	2023 – 2027	2023 – 2027	2024
85437090	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			0

→ To check whether your country and Vietnam have MFN (Most favoured nation) and FTA (Free Trade Agreement), you can check at the article: Overview Of Trade Relations Between Vietnam And The World

Are Facial care equipment banned from importing to Vietnam?

According to the current regulation, Facial care equipment is not in the List of prohibited imports into Vietnam, so the enterprise can do the import procedure pursuant to current stipulations.

→ For more information, read the article List of prohibited imports into Vietnam

Governmental management on importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam

What certificates are required in importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam?

There isn’t no any special governmental management policy on importing Facial care equipment

Classification risk management

According to actual experience in making goods, because the skin cleaning machine has the same operating mechanism, use and purpose of use, it is suitable for some health-related HS codes and affects import taxes. Therefore, in order for the shipment to be cleared in the most convenient way, before importing the shipment, HP Global will bring the goods for analysis and classification to determine whether this item is a medical device or not. ?

Next, this item can be classified between 2 HS codes 85437090 – preferential import tax rate of 0% and 85098090 – preferential import tax rate of 25%. At this point there will be 2 solutions:

• You need to check if the leather cleaner you want to import has been imported into Vietnam before or not. If so, the HS code classification of that item will be used to submit to customs proof of the applied HS code
• In case the machine item has never been imported into Vietnam, HP Global will make an application to apply for HS code classification. After the notification results are sent, I will do normal customs clearance

Customs procedure of import Facial care equipment into Vietnam

What procedure of importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam? What documents are needed when importing Facial care equipment to Vietnam?

Customs dossier for importing Facial care equipment normally are as below:

• Commercial Invoice (Commercial Invoice)
• Packing List (Goods packing slip)
• Bill of lading (Bill of Lading)
• Certificate of origin (Certificate of origin – in case the importer wants to enjoy special preferential import tax)
• HS code classification results

Label for Facial care equipment imported to Vietnam

According to current stipulation, cargo imported into Vietnam need to have sufficient label

Imported goods need to be fully labeled according to current regulations.

Goods labels must show the following contents:

a) Name of goods;

b) Name and address of the organization or individual responsible for the goods;

c) Origin of goods;

Select HP Global as the freight forwarder/customs broker for your shipments import Facial care equipment into Vietnam

HP Global is the freight forwarder with top reputation in Vietnam

→ Contact us for freight and inbound and outbound services for shipments to / from Vietnam – Email: info@hpgloballtd.com

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