Import Hand-drying into Vietnam

Customs procedures; import duty and transportation

You want to export Hand-drying 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 Hand-drying to Vietnam?  Import procedures for Hand-drying?

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

HS code and import duty of Hand-drying in Vietnam 

HS code of Hand-drying 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

Hand-drying’s HS code in Chapter 85: ELECTRICAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMAGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES

VAT and preferential import duty on Hand-drying to Vietnam in 2023

HS Code	Descriptions	VAT	Preferential Import duty	Normal import tax
8516	Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electro- thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, Hand-dryings, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; Hand-drying; other electro- thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 85.45.
85163300	– – Hand-drying apparatus	10%	25%	37,5%

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 Hand-drying to Vietnam:

When importing Hand-drying 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 Hand-drying 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 Hand-drying to Vietnam year 2023 under some FTAs:

HS	ACFTA	ATIGA	AJCEP	VJEPA	AKFTA	AANZFTA	AIFTA	VKFTA	VCFTA	VN-EAEU	CPTPP	AHKFTA	VNCU	EVFTA	UKVFTA	VN-LAO
85163300	0	0	3	5	5	0	*	5	3	4,5	0	25		8,3	8,3	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 Hand-drying banned from importing to Vietnam?

According to the current regulation, Hand-drying 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 Hand-drying to Vietnam

Governmental management on Hand-drying

Hand-dryingis under the specialized management of the Ministry of Science and Technology. According to Decision 3482 / QD-BKHCN dated December 8, 2017, when importing Hand-dryingwith above HS code, enterprises must check the quality of goods after customs clearance.

Management on declaration value

Hand-dryingis in the list of management on declaration value

Customs procedure of import Hand-dryinginto Vietnam

When doing customs clearance, customs procedure of importing Hand-drying into Vietnam is the same as other common commodities and must submit additional quarantine results

What procedure of importing Hand-drying to Vietnam? What documents are needed when importing Hand-drying to Vietnam?

Customs dossier for importing Hand-drying commodity normally are as below:

• Commercial Invoice (Commercial Invoice)
• Bill of lading (Bill of Lading)
• Certificate of origin (Certificate of origin – in case the importer wants to enjoy special preferential import tax)
• In some cases: Packing List (Goods packing slip)

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Label for import Hand-drying

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 Hand-drying into Vietnam

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• Consultation on the following contents: HS code, import tax, payment, product import policy, effective shipping solutions,…
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• For Hand-drying, we provide full services including international freight, customs clearance

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