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Equipment Import Regulations of Viet Nam for K-V Investment Promotion

c) Within 10 working days from the receipt of the written request from the Ministry of Science and Technology,
the requested ministries, ministerial agencies and/or specialists must give their opinions about the import of
machinery and equipment used in their managing fields, and about the enterprise's application for license to
import used machinery or equipment;
d) Within 03 working days from the receipt of written opinions from relevant ministries, ministerial agencies
and/or specialists, the Ministry of Science and Technology shall give written response to the enterprise. If
the enterprise’s application is refused, such written response must indicate reasons for refusal.

4. Import documents and procedures:
a) Import documents:
Apart from the import documents prescribed by the Law on customs, the enterprise is required to submit the
written approval for its import of used machinery or equipment given by the Ministry of Science and
Technology as regulated in Clause 3 of this Article;
b) Import procedures:
The enterprise shall submit import documents and the document mentioned in Point a of this Clause to the
customs authority where the customs declaration is registered for initiating customs clearance procedures as
regulated.

[Source] Ibid.

G9 Other Cases of Importing Used Machinery and Equipment

G9.1 The Case of Exceeding Age Limit

This article is for cases that exceed the age limit of 10 years, and do not belong to the
specific fields of the Appendix I attached to Decision 18.

In cases of used machinery under Article 9, the machinery should be inspected in the same
way as the technological line about the remaining capacity or performance and the
consumption level of energy or raw materials in addition to the requirement applied to
individual machinery.

As well as the inspection and document review at the site, Enterprise should take an application
process for an approval of import license to the Ministry of Science and Technology Vietnam
(hereinafter refer to as “MOST”)

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