RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/VNM/25 
31 October 2002 
 (02-6001) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Viet Nam Original:   English 
 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF VIET NAM 
 
Viet Nam's Non-Tariff Measures – October 2002  
 
 The Government of the Socialist Republic of  Viet Nam has submitted the following List of 
Viet Nam's Non-Tariff Measures of October 2002, w ith the request that it be circulated to the 
members of the Working Party.   
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  Viet Nam's Non-Tariff Measures – October 2002
 
 
 
Table 1  
 
Import prohibition  
 
 The following products are not allowed to be ci rculated in the domestic market on a normal 
commercial basis. The importation of these produc ts is carried out in different mechanisms for non-
commercial goals.  
 
HS Description Rationale 
1207 91 00 Poppy seeds Materials for  production of 
opium  
1302 11 00 Opium, anhydrous morphine anhydrous content  Materials for  production of 
opium 
2402, 2403 Tobacco, cigarettes, and other kinds of manufactured tobacco  Limit the consumption of 
cigarettes   
2618 00 00 Granulated slag (slag sand) from the manufacture of iron or steel Residues causing 
environmental pollution  
2619 00 00 Slag, dross (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste 
from the manufacture of iron orngs steel Residues causing 
environmental pollution  
2620 Ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or 
steel) containing metals or metal compounds Residues causing 
environmental pollution  
2621 00 00 Other slag and ash, including seaweed ash (kelp) Residues causing 
environmental pollution  
3601 00 00 Propellant powders Materials for production of 
explosives  
8710 00 00 Tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, motorized, whether 
or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles Military equipments  
8711 Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an 
auxiliary motor, with or without side-cars; side-cars Military equipments  
9301 00 00 Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of 
heading 307: revolvers, pistols Military equipments   
9302 00 00 Revolvers and pistols, other than those of heading 9303 or 9304 Weapons 
9304  Other arms (for example, spring, air or gas guns and pistols, 
truncheons), excluding those of heading 9307 Weapons  
9305 Parts and  accessories of articles of headings 9301 to 9304 Weapons  
9306 Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar 
munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other 
ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads Weapons  
9307 Swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms and parts 
thereof and scabbards and sheaths thereof Weapons  
NA* Second-hand consumer goods, including: 
- textiles and clothes, footwear 
- Electronic goods 
- Refrigerating equipments and products - Household electric goods 
- Furniture 
- Household goods made from porcelain, clay, glass, metal, 
resin, rubber, plastic, and other materials  Product safety 
                                                      
* Not applicable.  WT/ACC/VNM/25 
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 HS Description Rationale 
NA* Used materials and equipments, including: 
- Used machines, structures, inner tyres, tyres, accessories, 
motors of automobiles, tractors, 2-wheel and 3-wheel 
motorbikes  
- Internal combustion engines and machines with internal 
combustion engines having capacity below 30 CV  
- Bicycles, 2-wheel and 3-wheel vehicles; - Passenger cars of less than 16 seats, trucks with loading 
capacity of less than 5 tonnes, ambulances.  Traffic safety 
NA* Toxic chemicals  
List published by the Ministry of Industry  Environment protection, 
protection of human health  
NA* Garbage and waste materials which may cause environmental 
pollution and epidemics  
The list published by the Ministry of Science, Technology and 
Environment Environment protection, 
protection of human health  
NA* Depraved and reactionary cultural products  Public morals  
NA* Children toys having adverse effect in moral education, public 
order and security  Public morals & social 
security 
NA* Narcotics  Protection of human life 
NA* Firecrackers (excluding fire signal used for maritime safety and 
other purposes as stipulated by the Prime Minister in the official 
Document No.1383/CP-KTTS dated 23/11/1998)  Protection of human health 
& life 
NA* Left-hand steering vehicles (including its components and those 
repaired to right-hand driving ones before imported into Viet 
Nam), except for specializing left-hand steering vehicles operating in small areas such as cranes, channel excavators, 
dustbin lorries, road watering lorries, street cleaning lorries, road surfacing machines, airport passenger transportation cars, fork-
lifts at ware houses and ports Traffic safety 
NA* Asbestos products and materials under amphibole group  Protection of human health 
NA* Specializing coding machines and coding software subject to 
state secrets  Protection of national 
security 
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Table 2
 
 
Quota and licensing subject to elimination  
 
Notes:  N:   Not subject to elimination 
 3:  Will be phased out after 3 years from the date of accession 
 
HS Description of Products Quota Licence Notes 
2501  
 
(excluding 
2501.0010) Salt including table salt and denatured salt) and 
pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous 
solution or containing added anti-caking or free- 
flowing agents; sea water N N TRQ 
2523.1000 Clinker  3  
2523.2100 
2523.2900 
2523.2910 Cement   3 5  
2707.2000 Toluene  N  
2710 Petrol 6 N  
2711 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons  N  
2806 
2807 Hydrogen chloride; Sulfuric acid; oleum  3 
  
2809 Inorganic acids   4  
2814 Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution   4  
2815 
 Sodium hydroxide (Caustic soda); potassium 
hydroxide (Caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or 
potassium    3  
3105 Mineral or chemical fertilizers containing two or 
three of the fertilizing elements nitrogen, 
phosphorus and potassium ; goods of this Chapter 
in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross 
weight no exceeding 10 kg  3 3  
3208 
3209 
3210 Paints and varnishes   3 
  
3602-3603 Prepared explosives; safety fuses; detonating fuses; 
percussion or detonating caps; igniters; electric detonators   N  
3604.90.10 Fireworks, signalling flares, rain rockets, fog 
signals and other pyrotechnic articles  N  
4011 New pneumatic tires, of rubber  3 5  
4013 Inner tubes, of rubber  3 6  
4801 
4802 Newsprint, paper for writing, printing, in rolls or 
sheets; 4 4  
4804 Uncoated kraft paper and paperboard, in rolls or 
sheets, other than that of heading 4802 or 4803  4 4  
4823 Other paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and 
webs of cellulose fibers, cut to size or shape  5 5  
5007 Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste   4  
6904 
6905 Ceramic building bricks, flooring blocks, support or 
filler tiles and the like; Roofing tiles, chimney pots, 
cowls, chimney liners, architectural ornaments and other ceramic constructional goods  4 4   WT/ACC/VNM/25 
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 HS Description of Products Quota Licence Notes 
6907 Unglazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall 
tiles; unglazed ceramic mosaic cubes and the like   4  
6908 Glazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall 
tiles; glazed ceramic mosaic cubes and the like   4  
6910 Ceramic sinks, washbasins, washbasin pedestals, 
baths, bidets, water closet bowls, flush tanks, 
urinals and similar sanitary fixtures   4  
7003, 7004 
7005, 7016 Construction glass and glassware  5 5 
  
7208 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a 
width of 600 mm or more, hot-rolled, not clad, 
plated or coated 4 4  
7209 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a 
width of 600 mm or more, cold-rolled (cold- 
reduced), not clad, plated or coated  4 4  
7210 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a 
width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated  4 4  
7211 
 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a 
width of less than 600 mm, not clad, plated or 
coated  4 4  
7212 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a 
width of less than 600 mm, clad, plated or coated  4 4  
7213-7217 Bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound 
coils, of iron or non-alloy steel; Iron or non-alloy steel in sections of L, U, I, H, T; Wire of iron or 
non-alloy steel  4 4  
7303 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron  4 4  
7304 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron 
(other than cast iron) or steel  4 4  
7305-7306 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, open seamed or 
welded, riveted or similarly closed, of iron or steel  4 4  
7313 Barbed wire of iron or steel  4 4  
7314 
 
  
7314.19.00 
 7314.20.00 Cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and 
fencing, of iron or steel wire; expanded metal or 
iron steel  
Other 
 Grill, netting and fencing, welded at the 
intersection, of wire with a maximum cross-sectional dimension of 3 mm or more and having a 
mesh size of 100 cm2 or more 4 
 
  
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4  
8407 - 8408 Piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines) with 
capacity not exceeding 100 CV  5 5  
8702.10.10 
 
8702.10.90 
8702.90.10 
8702.90.90 Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more 
persons, including the driver 
 
 
In particular: 
-  Assembling components of motor vehicles of 
more fifteen persons  
-  Assembling components of motor vehicles of 
ten to fifteen persons 
-   Airport passenger transportation cars 5 6 
 
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  HS Description of Products Quota Licence Notes 
8703 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally 
designed for the transport of persons (other than 
those of heading 8702), including station wagons 
and racing cars 5 5  
8704 Motor vehicles for the transport of goods with a 
capacity not exceeding 5 tonnes  5 5 
  
8711.10.00 
8711.20.00 Motorcycles with reciprocating internal combustion 
piston engine of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 
175 cc In particular: 
- In the forms of CKD1, CKD2, IKD1, IKD2, 
IKD3 of heading 8711 6 
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N  
8712 Bicycles and other cycles (including delivery 
tricycles), not motorized   5  
8714 Parts and accessories of vehicles of headings from 
8711 to 8713  4  
8901 Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry boats, cargo 
ships, barges and similar vessels for the trans- port of persons or goods with capacity not exceeding 
5000 DWT  4 4 
  
8902 Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for 
processing or preserving fishery products   4  
9303 sporting, hunting shotguns and rifles   N  
9305 Parts and accessories of articles of headings 9301 to 
9304  N  
 
 
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