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Procedure Details

Summary

Procedure Name
5.3. Inspection of exported and imported goods
Responsible agency
General Department of Vietnam Customs
ATR’s procedure categories
Analysis and inspection procedures

Detail

The inspection of imported, exported commodity is carried out applying risk management.

The unit requesting inspection shall judge the level of risk of the imported, exported commodity and assess the compliance level of the customs declarant to decide on the sampling required for inspection.

In case the Department of Inspection needs to focus on inspecting a number of key imported, exported commodity with high risk of fraud through the analysis and collection of information by topic, the Department should send an official letter to inform relevant operation units to organize the sampling for inspection.

 

Required documents

 

No

Name of documents

Note

1

Registration for inspection (Form No. 09/YCKD/2017 issued together with the Regulations on Analysis for Inspection of import, export commodity (Decision No. 2999/QD-TCHQ dated on September 6, 2017)

 

2

Record of physical inspection of commodity (if any) of the inspection officer (Form No. 06/PGKQKT/GSQL Appendix 5 to Circular 38/2015/TT-BTC) to have a basis for determining the original size of the commodity upon its import

 

3

Copies with stamps (on adjoining edges of pages) of existing documents in the customs dossier being kept at the Customs Department where the procedures are carried out (if any), such as commercial contracts (or commercial invoices), technical specifications of goods, certificate of origin (C/O), certificate of composition analysis (C/A), certificate of quality standard (C/Q)

 

4

Documents provided by the declarant as prescribed in specialized inspection documents of line ministries for each specific item.

 

 

Process steps

 

Step 1

Collecting samples of commodities.

There must be a representative of the unit requesting inspection and a representative of the customs declarant being present at the sampling. In case of complicated sampling with technical requirements, the unit unit requesting inspection shall notify the inspection unit to appoint technical staff to participate in the sampling.

The inspection unit receives the samples sent by the unit requesting inspection directly or through the courier post service, or delivered by the customs declarant under proper authorization.

Step 2

Receiving inspection documents

The inspection unit receives the documents and the samples for inspection; and requests additional documents in case the application is incomplete or the samples are unsatisfactory.

Step 3

Sending the inspection results

The inspection unit issues the Notice of Inspection Results according to Form No.11/KQKD/2017 issued together with the Regulations on Analysis for Inspection of import, export commodity (Decision No. 2999/QD-TCHQ dated on September 6th, 2017) to the unit requesting inspection, and at the same time, upload it to the Customslab system for the unit requesting inspection to search for and receive the results online.

 

Process map

 

 

Note

The timeline for promulgation of notification of inspection results shall be in accordance with regulations of specialized management ministries.

The inspection results are the basis for the unit requesting inspection to:

1. Compare the declared contents in the customs declaration related to HS codes, values, and origins.

2. Compare and re-examine specialized inspection results provided by other specialized management agencies at which the customs declarant registered for and had their commodities conducted specialized inspection procedures.