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2020 K-V Economic Cooperation Work Program
Disseminating Information on Used Machinery and
Equipment Import Regulations of Viet Nam for K-V Investment Promotion

G2 Regulated Entities

When Enterprise faces difficulties with the certification of used machinery export under

Decision 18, it is recommended to contact Designated Inspection Body from the stage of
identifying the difficulties.

* In this guidebook, the organizations, and enterprises are called Enterprise, and the inspection bodies
designated/accredited by MOST of Vietnam are called Designated Inspection Body.

iii. Definitions

Enterprise who wants to transfer facilities in its plant to Vietnam should identify whether the facilities
would be individual machinery or a technological line, the used machinery or not, and should under

stand the way of age calculation.

<Figure 9> Definitions of Major Terms

Article 3. Definitions

1. “machinery or equipment” means a complete structure comprised of parts, groups of parts, and components that
are interconnected to operate to serve the intended purposes.
2. “technological line” means a system of machinery, equipment, tools and/or devices that are installed or
interconnected on a fixed site according to a technological process or diagram to ensure synchronous operation
serving manufacturing.
3. “used machinery, equipment and technological lines” are machinery, equipment and technological lines that
have been assembled and put into operation after they are manufactured.
4. “age” means the period of time expressed as years from the year of manufacturing to the year of import of the
used machinery or equipment. Year of import is the year in which the goods arrive at a Vietnam’s port.

[Source] Ibid.

G3 Machinery and Equipment to Technological Line

According to Article 3, the used machinery is categorized as machinery or equipment and a
technological line.

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