G/TBT/N/VNM/105  
 
28 August 2017  
(17-4566) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member : VIET NAM   
If applicable, name of local government involved  (Article 3.2 and 7.2) :  
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development  
Department of Cooperative Economy and Rural Development  
No. 2 Ngoc Ha street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Vietnam  
Tel: (+84 -24) 38437673  
Fax: (+84 -24) 38438791  
Website: http://dcrd.gov.vn/Home   
Name and address (including telephone and fax nu mbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification  shall be indicated if different from above :  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Sodium chloride salt ; 
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. (HS 
2501).  
5. Title, number of pages  and language(s)  of the notified document:  The draft Circular 
amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular No.34/201 4/TT-BNNPTNT 
Guiding quality inspection of imported salt (12 page(s), in Vietnamese)    
6. Description of content:  This Circular provides the contents of and procedures for the 
quality inspection of imported salt within the state management of the Ministry  of Agriculture 
and Rural Development.  
The import of salt in the following cases is not regulated by this Circular but must comply 
with current management regulations:  
a) Temporary import for re -export, border -gate transfer or transit;  
b) Import for expor t production or goods processing for foreign traders;  
c) Personal luggage, sample goods for testing or research, goods for exhibitions or fairs, 
refined salts (Pa) used as reagents in chemical analysis, salt in donations, and cosmetic salt, 
salt for feedin g aquarium.  
Articles to be amended and supplemented in this draft Circular includes:  
- Clause 2, Clause 3 and Clause 4 of Article 3  
- Clause 1 of Article 4  
- Clause 1 and Clause 2 of Article 6  G/TBT/N/VNM/105  
 
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  - Clause 2 and Clause 4 of Article 8  
- Clause 3 of Article 9  
- Amending some terms in Article 11, Article 15 and Article 16  
7. Objective and rationale , including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of animal or plant life or health  
8. Relevant documents:   
- Law on Food Safety 2010;  
- Law on Pr oduct and Goods Quality 2007;  
- Law on Standards and Technical Regulations 2006;  
- Decree No.132/2008/ND -CP, dated 31 December 2008 of the Government detailing the 
implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Product and Goods Quality.  
- Decree No. 38/2012/ND -CP dated 28/01/2012 of the Government detailing some articles 
of the Law on Food Safety;  
- Decree No.09/2016/ND -CP dated 28/01/206 of the Government regulating the 
fortification of food with micronutrients;  
- Decree No.40/2017/ND -CP dated 05/4/2 017 of the Government on management of salt 
production and trading.   
9. Proposed date of adoption: December 2017  
Proposed date of entry into force: January 2018  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National en quiry point  [X] or address, telephone and fax 
number s and e mail and website address es, if available , of other body:   
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development  
Department of Cooperative Economy and Rural Development  
No. 2 Ngoc Ha street, Ba Dinh Distric t, Hanoi, Vietnam  
Tel: (+84 -24) 38437673  
Fax: (+84 -24) 38438791  
Website: http://dcrd.gov.vn/Home   
 
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