• Effective: Expired
  • Effective Date: 20/07/2006
  • Expiry Date: 15/02/2010
THE MINISTRY OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Number: 20/2006/QĐ-BBCVT
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
Ha Noi , June 30, 2006

DECISION

Promulgating the List of used information technology appliances banned from import

THE MINISTER OF POST AND TELEMATICS

Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 90/2002/ND-CP of November 11, 2002, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Post and Telematics Ministry;

Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 12/2006/ND-CP of January 23, 2006, detailing the implementation of the Commercial Law regarding activities of international goods sale and purchase, and goods sale and purchase agency, processing and transit with foreign parties;

At the proposal of the director of the Information Technology Industry Department,

DECIDES:

Article 1.- To promulgate together with this Decision the List of used information technology appliances banned from import."

Article 2.- This Decision takes effect 15 (fifteen) days after its publication in "CONG BAO."

Article 3.- The director of the Office, the chief inspector, the directors of the Departments, heads of bodies and units attached to the Post and Telematics Ministry, organizations and individuals manufacturing and/or trading in information technology and telecommunications appliances shall have to implement this Decision.

Minister of Post and Telematics
DO TRUNG TA

 

LIST OF USED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLIANCES BANNED FROM IMPORT

(Promulgated together with the Post and Telematics Minister's Decision No. 20/2006/QD-BBCVT of June 30, 2006

Chapter

Heading

Sub-heading

Description of goods

Chapter 84

    
 

8469

  

Typewriters other than printers of heading No. 8471; word-processing machines

    

- Automatic typewriters and word-processing machines:

 

8469

11

00

-- Word-processing machines [ITA1/A-002]

 

8469

12

00

-- Automatic typewriters

 

8469

20

00

- Other typewriters, electric

 

8469

30

00

- Other typewriters, non-electric

 

8470

  

Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions; accounting machines; franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers

 

8470

10

00

- Electronic calculator capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket-size data recording, producing and displaying machines with calculating functions [ITA1/A-003]

    

- Other electronic calculating machines

 

8470

21

00

-- Incorporating a printing device [ITA1/A-004]

 

8470

29

00

-- Other [ITA1/A-005]

 

8470

30

00

- Other calculators [ITA1/A-006]

 

8471

  

Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded forms and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included

 

8471

10

00

- Analogue or hybrid automatic data processing machines

 

8471

30

 

- Portable digital automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display [ITA1/A-011] [ITA1/A-191] [ITA1/A-194]:

 

8471

30

10

-- Palmtop computers

 

8471

30

20

-- Laptop computers

 

8471

30

90

-- Other

    

- Other digital automatic data processing machines:

 

8471

41

 

-- Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit, and an input and output unit, whether or not combined [ITA1/A-012] [other than ITA1/B-194] [ITA1/B-191]

 

8471

41

10

--- Personal computers other than laptop computers

 

8471

41

90

--- Other

 

8471

49

 

-- Other, presented in the form of systems [ITA/A-013] [ITA1/B-191] [other than ITA1/B-194] [other than ITA1/B-193] [ITA1/B-198] [ITA1/B-200] [other than ITA1/B-198] [other than ITA1/B-196]:

 

8471

49

10

--- Personal computers other than laptop computers

 

8471

49

90

--- Other

 

8471

60

 

- Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing [ITA1/A-015] [other than ITA/B-195]:

 

8471

60

11

-- Dot matrix printers

 

8471

60

12

-- Ink-jet printers

 

8471

60

13

-- Laser printers

 

8471

60

19

-- Other printers

 

8471

60

21

-- Computer terminals or monitors, color, other than closed circuit television monitors

 

8471

60

29

-- Other computer terminals or displays, color, other than closed circuit television monitors

 

8471

60

30

-- Computer keyboards

 

8471

60

40

-- X-Y coordinate input devices, including mouse, light pen, joystick, trackball and touch sensitive screens

 

8471

70

 

- Storage units: [ITA1/A-016] [other than ITA/B-194]

 

8471

70

10

-- Floppy disk drives

 

8471

70

20

-- Hard disk drives

 

8471

70

30

-- Cassette drives

 

8471

70

40

-- Optical disk drives, including CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and CD-R drives [ITA1/B-196]

 

8471

80

 

- Other units of automatic data processing machines: [ITA1/A-017]

 

8471

80

10

-- Control units [ITA1/B-194]

 

8471

80

20

-- Adapter units [ITA1/B-194]

 

8471

80

30

-- Gateways, including VoIP [ITA1/B-194]

 

8471

80

40

-- Automatic data routing apparatuses [ITA1/B-194]

 

8471

80

50

-- Wireless bridges and routing apparatuses [ITA1/B-194]

 

8471

80

60

-- Firewalls

 

8471

80

70

-- Sound cards [ITA1/B-202] and video cards

 

8471

80

90

-- Other [ITA1/A-018] [other than ITA1/B-194]

 

8471

90

 

- Other:

 

8471

90

20

-- Optical character readers, document or image scanners

Chapter 85

    
 

8517

  

Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunications apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital systems; videophones

    

- Telephone sets, videophones:

 

8517

11

00

- Line telephone sets with cordless handsets [ITA1/A-026]

 

8517

19

 

-- Other:

 

8517

19

10

--- Telephone sets

 

8517

19

20

--- Videophones

    

- Facsimile machines and teleprinters:

 

8517

21

00

-- Facsimile machines [ITA1/A-028]

 

8517

22

00

-- Teleprinters [ITA1/A-029]

 

8517

30

 

- Telephonic or telegraphic switching apparatus: [ITA1/A-030]

 

8517

30

10

-- Telephonic switching apparatus

 

8517

30

20

-- Telegraphic switching apparatus

 

8517

50

 

- Other apparatus, for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems [ITA1/A-031] [other than repeaters ITA1/B-192] [other than ITA1/B-194] [other than ITA/B-202]

 

8517

50

10

-- Combined modulators-demodulators (Modems)

 

8517

50

20

-- Concentrators, multiplexes

 

8517

50

30

-- Line-man test sets

 

8517

50

40

-- Settop boxes with a communication function [ITA1/B-203]

 

8517

50

50

-- Other apparatus for telephony

 

8517

50

90

-- Other

 

8517

80

 

- Other equipment: [ITA1/A-032] [other than repeaters ITA1/B-192]:

 

8517

80

10

-- Scrumblers, including speech inverters and online cipher equipment

 

8517

80

20

-- Data security equipment

 

8517

80

30

-- Encryption devices

 

8517

80

40

-- Public key infrastructure

 

8517

80

50

-- Digital subscriber line (DSL)

 

8517

80

60

-- Virtual private network (VPN)

 

8517

80

70

-- Computer-telephone integrated (CTI)

    

-- Other:

 

8517

80

91

--- For telephony

 

8517

80

92

--- For telegraphy

 

8517

80

99

--- Other

 

8525

  

Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders

 

8525

10

 

- Transmission apparatus:

 

8525

10

30

-- Data compression tools

 

8525

10

40

-- Settop boxes for television

 

8525

10

50

-- For radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy [ITA1/A-]

 

8525

20

 

- Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus: [ITA1/A-049] [other than ITA1/B-197]

 

8525

20

10

-- Wireless local-area networks (WLAN)

 

8525

20

20

-- Internet enabled handy phones

 

8525

20

30

-- Internet enabled cellular phones

 

8525

20

40

-- Internet video conferencing equipment

 

8525

20

50

-- Digital radio relay systems

 

8525

20

60

-- Mobile data networks

 

8525

20

70

-- Settop boxes for television

 

8525

20

80

-- Other cellular phones

 

8525

20

91

--- Other transmission apparatus for telephony and telegraphy

 

8525

40

 

- Still image video cameras and other video camera recorders, digital cameras:

 

8525

40

30

-- Digital cameras

 

8525

40

40

-- Other video cameras

 

8528

  

Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus; video monitors and video projectors

    

- Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:

 

8528

12

 

-- Color:

 

8528

12

10

--- Settop boxes for television

 

8528

12

90

--- Other

    

- Video monitors:

 

8528

21

 

-- Color:

 

8528

21

90

--- Other

 

8544

  

Insulated (including enameled or anodized) wire, cable (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors. Optical-fiber cables made of separately insulated fibers, whether or not fitted with electric conductors or connectors

    

- Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 80 V but not exceeding 1,000 V:

 

8544

51

 

-- Fitted with connectors

    

--- For telecommunications: [ITA1/A-098]

 

8544

51

12

---- Telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables, other than submarine cables

    

--- Other:

 

8544

51

94

---- Controlling cables

 

8544

59

 

-- Other:

    

--- For telecommunications:

 

8544

59

12

---- Telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables, other than submarine cables

    

--- Other:

 

8544

59

94

---- Controlling cables

    

- Other electric conductors, for a voltage exceeding 1,000 V:

    

-- Other:

 

8544

60

92

--- Telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables, other than undersea cables

 

8544

70

 

- Optical-fiber cables [ITA1/A-099]

 

8544

70

20

-- Optical-fiber cables (telephone, telegraph, radio relay cables, other than submarine cables)

* Notes:

- This List is drawn up on the basis of the List of goods and their HS codes in the Export and Import Tariff.

- Only goods items under 8-digit subheadings in this List are banned from import. The 4-digit headings and 6-digit subheadings in this List shall only help clarify information on banned goods under 8-digit subheadings.

- Used components and spare parts of goods on the List of used information technology appliances banned from import are also banned from import.

- This List shall not apply to used information technology goods imported in complete sets within special-use systems.-

Minister

(Signed)

 

Do Trung Ta

 
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