Circular No. 40/2017/TT-BQP dated February 23, 2017 of the Ministry of National Defence on the List of goods banned from import and export under the management of Ministry of National Defence as prescribed Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP

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Subheading

Description

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3601

00

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Explosives (other than industrial explosives), propellant powders

36

3602

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Prepared explosives, other than propellant powders

36

3603

00

00

Propellants, explosives, safety fuses, detonating fuses, detonating tubes, detonating caps, primers, percussion caps, igniters, electric detonators, detonating cords, slow igniter cords, and explosive spare parts specialized in military sector.

HS CODES ARE UNAVAILABLE 

Electronic warfare equipment, jammers, devices used for preventing radio receipt and monitoring radio information and satellite information, etc. specialized in military sector:

- Electronic countermeasures and electronic counter-countermeasures or electronic protective measures (i.e. devices designed to trick or deceive or interfere in operations of radar or radio receivers, or cause obstruction to the receipt or operation, or weaken an enemy’s electronic devices, including countermeasures), including jamming devices and anti-jamming devices;

- Electronic equipment or systems designed to monitor or control electromagnetic spectrums used for intelligence and military security purposes or for coping with such monitoring or control;

- Underwater countermeasure devices, including senders of blind signals, jammers and devices designed to generate false or misleading signals diverting ultrasonic receivers;  

- Devices designed to secure, process, transmit and generate signals used in encryption and decryption activities so as to protect state secrets (excluding civil cryptography products);

- Devices used for identifying, verifying, creating and managing private keys, manufacturing and distributing cryptography products for protecting state secrets.      

- Guiding and steering devices used in military sector (such as missile guidance systems);

- Digital demodulators specially designed to receive signals intelligence.

- Military communication means and specialized military command and control systems of various kinds.

HS CODES ARE UNAVAILABLE  

Military vehicles

Relevant road transport vehicles and parts specially designed or modified for military purposes, including:

- Breakdown lorries, tractors, vehicles used for transporting military weapons and military hardware (excluding civilian vehicles or armored and explosion-resistant trucks used in transporting money, jewels or precious metals).

87

8710

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Tanks, amphibious vehicles and other armored fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles.

88

8802

Fighter aircrafts, helicopters of various kinds, and other aircrafts (only including the ones fitted with fighter equipment and weapons); Other airplanes and lighter-than-air transportation means(Balloons or spacecrafts operated by hot air or lighter-than-air gases such as helium or hydrogen)specially designed or modified to serve military purposes, including reconnaissance planes, fighter aircrafts, military trainer aircrafts, military cargo aircrafts and other aircrafts used for transporting military equipment, goods and ordnance, and their parts specially designed for military purposes.    

HS CODES IS UNAVAILABLE 

Personal parachutes or specialized parachutes for transporting ordnance or slowing down aircrafts specially designed to serve military purposes.

HS CODES IS UNAVAILABLE 

Military hats and caps, protective masks and relevant parts specially designed to serve military purposes; pressure sustaining devices for assisting with breathing and clothing used in fighter aircrafts; G-suits, converters of liquid oxygen into gas used for fighter aircrafts or missiles and ejection seats that propel the crew members out of the aircraft in emergency cases.

89

8906

10

00

Warships and vessels (surface vessels or submarines) specially designed or modified for defending or attacking, whether or not changed for serving demilitarized purposes, whatever they are in good operating conditions or repaired, and whether or not fitted with weapon launching systems, or armored parts and entire or partial hulls of such warships and vessels.

93

9301

Military weapons (other than the weapons of heading 8710.00.00 and heading 9302.00.00)

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Biological weapons, chemical weapons, atomic weapons, nuclear weapons, radiological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and technology lines for production of these weapons.

93

9301

10

00

Artillery weapons (for example, howitzers and mortars, etc.)

93

9301

20

00

Rocket launchers, flame-throwers, grenade launchers, torpedo tubes and similar projectors

93

9302

00

00

Revolvers and pistols (other than those of heading 93.03 or 93.04)

93

9305

10

00

Parts and accessories of the weapons of heading 9302.00.00

93

9305

91

00

Parts and accessories of the weapons of heading 9301

93

9306

Bombs, grenades, hand grenades, torpedoes, naval mines, mines, missiles, rockets and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads.

HS CODES ARE UNAVAILABLE 

High-energy laser weapon systems, experimental models or opposing equipment, or relevant devices and their parts specially designed to serve same military purposes:

+ Laser systems specially designed to destroy or revoke targeted kill orders;

+ Particle-beam generators capable of damaging the target or cancelling targeted kill orders;

+ High-energy radio frequency weapon systems capable of destroying the target or cancelling targeted kill orders;

+ Devices specially designed to serve detection or identification purposes, or to cope with detection or identification devices;

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Technology lines used in production or repair of weapons, ammunitions, military explosives and equipment.

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Specialized military radars (observation radars, watching radars, etc.)

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) reconnaissance hardware integrated with radioactive sources, various kinds of radioactive sources with an equivalent higher than the medical equivalent and a long half-life period used in military sector; Military hardware in support of river crossing or mine detection, optical hardware, and engineer hardware specially designed to serve military purposes.   

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Special military equipment of task forces, special forces, reconnaissance forces, intelligence forces and radiation, chemical and biological defence troops.

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Image-processing devices specially designed to serve military purposes, and their parts and accessories.

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Documentation, paper diagrams and drawings, etc. used in military sector.

HS CODES ARE UNAVAILABLE 

Software specially designed to serve:

+ Modeling, simulation or evaluation of military weapon systems;  

+ Development, supervision, maintenance or updating of software of military weapon systems;

+ Modeling or simulation of military marching scenarios;

+ Command, communications, control and intelligence applications, or command, communications, control, computer and intelligence applications specialized in military sector;

+ Software for verifying efficiency of biological weapons, chemical weapons, atomic weapons and conventional weapons;

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Parts and materials substitute for military weapons and hardware

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Body armor vests, helmets, respirators, clothing of special forces, and diving equipment used in military.

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Uniforms of armed forces (including common daily uniforms, outdoor clothing, dress uniforms, hats, and army badges and insignia), not applicable to production or export processing of uniforms for foreign armed forces (these cases shall be governed by the Circular No. 49/2015/TT-BCT dated December 21, 2015 by Ministry of Industry and Trade on production and export processing of uniforms for foreign armed forces).

HS CODE IS UNAVAILABLE 

Equipment in support of training and fighting operations (models of guns, ammunition, weapons, diversion or camouflage; special equipment used in training and simulation of military scenarios, simulation parts specially designed to serve fire-power and weapon training activities.