VietnameseCircular No. 41/2016/TT-BTTTT dated December 26, 2016 of the Ministry of Information and Communications on amending and supplementing a number of the Circular No. 16/2015/TT-BTTTT dated June 17, 2015 of the Minister of Information and Communications prescribing the implementation of the Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 on export and import of goods in printing and publication industries
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| Issuing body: | Ministry of Information and Communications | Effective date: | Known Please log in to a subscriber account to use this function. Don’t have an account? Register here |
| Official number: | 41/2016/TT-BTTTT | Signer: | Truong Minh Tuan |
| Type: | Circular | Expiry date: | Known Please log in to a subscriber account to use this function. Don’t have an account? Register here |
| Issuing date: | 26/12/2016 | Effect status: | Known Please log in to a subscriber account to use this function. Don’t have an account? Register here |
| Fields: | Export - Import , Information - Communications |
THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Circular No.41/2016/TT-BTTTT dated December 26, 2016 of the Ministry of Information and Communications on amending and supplementing a number of the Circular No. 16/2015/TT-BTTTT dated June 17, 2015 of the Minister of Information and Communications prescribing the implementation of the Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 on export and import of goods in printing and publication industries
Pursuant to the Law on Publishing dated November 20, 2012;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 132/2013/ND-CP dated October 16, 2013 defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Information and Communications;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013, detailing the implementation of the Commercial Law regarding international goods trading and goods purchase, sale, processing and transit agency activities with foreign countries;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 195/2013/ND-CP dated November 21, 2013 elaborating a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on publishing;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 60/2014/ND-CP dated June 19, 2014 providing for printing activities;
Pursuant to Decision No. 41/2005/QD-TTg dated March 02, 2005 by the Prime Minister introducing the Regulation on grant of import license;
At the request of Director of the Agency of Publication, Print and Release;
Minister of Information and Communications promulgates this Circular to provide amendment and supplementation to the Circular No. 16/2015/TT-BTTTT dated June 17, 2015 by Minister of Information and Communications elaborating the implementation of the Government’s Decree No.187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 on export and import of goods in printing and publication industries.
Article 1. To amend and supplement a number of articles of the Circular No. 16/2015/TT-BTTTT dated June 17, 2015 by Minister of Information and Communications elaborating the implementation of the Government’s Decree No.187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 on export and import of goods in printing and publication industries
1. To amend and supplement the Article 2:
“Article 2. Commodities in the printing and publication industries classified by the HS code
1. Printing commodities:
Commodities in printing industry, including equipment, apparatus, parts and components, which have been defined by the HS codes and description, and put under the authority of the Ministry of Information and Communications, shall be classified by headings with the following codes:
a) 84.40;
b) 84.41;
c) 84.42;
d) 84.43.
2. Publication commodities:
Commodities in publication industry are those whose form is prescribed in Clause 4 Article 4 of the Law on publishing and which have been defined by the HS codes and put under the authority of the Ministry of Information and Communications, including the following heading codes:
a) 49.01;
b) 4903.00.00;
c) 49.05;
d) 4910.00.00;
dd) 49.11.”
2. To amend and supplement the Article 5:
“Article 5. Imported printing commodities
Imported printing commodities include the commodities which are prescribed in Clause 1 Article 2 of this Circular, are defined by detailed description and must satisfy all of importing requirements laid down in the Appendix I enclosed herewith.”
Article 2. Appendixes
Two appendixes are enclosed herewith as substitutes for the Appendix I and the Appendix II enclosed with the Circular No. 16/2015/TT-BTTTT dated June 17, 2015 by Minister of Information and Communications elaborating the implementation of the Government’s Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 on export and import of goods in printing and publication industries. To be specific:
1. Appendix I: List of printing commodities, and import procedures and requirements attached therewith;
2. Appendix II: List of publication commodities, and import procedures attached therewith.
Article 3. Effect
1. This Circular shall take effect on March 01, 2017.
2. Chief of the Ministry s Office, Director of the Agency of Publication, Print and Release, heads of the Ministry’s affiliates and relevant organizations and individuals shall implement this Circular./.
The Minister
Truong Minh Tuan
APPENDIX I
LIST OF PRINTING COMMODITIES, AND IMPORT PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS ATTACHED THEREWITH
(Issued with the Circular No. 41/2016/TT-BTTTT dated December 26, 2016 by Minister of Information and Communications)
HS code | Description | Import procedures and requirements attached therewith | ||
Description as per the List of Vietnam s imports and exports | Specialized description in printing industry | For license | For commodities | |
84.40 | Book-binding machinery, including book-sewing machines. | Book-binding machinery (including book-sewing machines (steel binding machines or book stitching machines), book cover making machines, book folding machines, fully automatic book making machines, fully automatic making machines and other types) |
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8440.10 | - Machinery: |
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8440.10.10 | - - Electrically operated |
| Import license is required if importing book-binding machinery (including book-sewing machines (steel binding machines or book stitching machines), book cover making machines, book folding machines, fully automatic book making machines, fully automatic making machines), excluding other machinery types | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 25 years |
8440.10.20 | - - Not electrically operated |
| Import license is not required |
Not applicable
Not applicable |
8440.90 | - Parts: |
| Import license is not required | |
8440.90.10 | - - Of electrically operated machines |
| Import license is not required | |
8440.90.20 | - - Of non-electrically operated machines |
| Import license is not required | |
84.41 | Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds. |
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84.41.10 | - Cutting machines: |
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84.41.10.10 | - - Electrically operated | Paper or paperboard cutters | Import license | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 25 years |
84.41.10.20 | - - Not electrically operated |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
84.42 | Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machine-tools of headings 84.56 to 84.65) for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished). | Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machine-tools of headings 84.56 to 84.65) for preparing or making plates, tubes and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished). |
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8442.30 | - Machinery, apparatus and equipment: |
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8442.30.10 | - - Electrically operated |
| The import license is required if importing image setters, plate setters and plate making machines which are used in the printing progress, excluding other types | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 10 years |
8442.30.20 | - - Not electrically operated |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
8442.40 | - Parts of the foregoing machinery, apparatus or equipment: |
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8442.40.10 | - - Of electrically operated machines, apparatus or equipment |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
8442.40.20 | - - Of non-electrically operated machines, apparatus or equipment |
| Import license is not required | |
8442.50.00 | - Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished) |
| Import license is not required | |
84.43 | Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof. | Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, printing tubes and other printing components of heading 84.42; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof. |
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| - Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinder and other printing components of heading 84.42: | Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, tubes and other printing components of heading 84.42: |
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8443.11.00 | - - Offset printing machinery, reel-fed | Offset printing machinery, reel-fed | Import license | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 20 years |
8443.12.00 | - - Offset printing machinery, sheet-fed, office type (using sheets with one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state) | Offset printing machinery, sheet-fed | ||
8443.13.00 | - - Other offset printing machinery |
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8443.14.00 | - - Letterpress printing machinery, reel-fed, excluding flexographic printing | Letterpress printing machinery, reel-fed | ||
8443.15.00 | - - Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel-fed, excluding flexographic printing | Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel-fed | ||
8443.16.00 | - - Flexographic printing machinery | Flexographic printing machinery | ||
8443.17.00 | - - Gravure printing machinery | Copper pipe printing machinery | ||
8443.19.00 | - - Other | Other, excluding screen printing machinery | Import license is not required | Not applicable |
Screen printing machinery | Import license | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 20 years | ||
| - Other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined: |
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8443.31 | - - Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network: | Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network or in combination with other functions |
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8443.31.10 | - - - Printer-copiers, printing by the ink-jet process | Printer-copiers, printing by the ink-jet process with multi-colors or in combination with other functions | Import license is required if importing multi-color printer-copiers with print speed of more than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are more elongated than A3. | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 07 years |
Import license is required if importing multi-color printer-copiers with print speed of less than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are less elongated than A3 | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years | |||
8443.31.20 | - - - Printer-copiers, printing by the laser process | Printer-copiers, printing by the laser process with multi-colors or in combination with other functions | Import license is required if importing multi-color printer-copiers with print speed of more than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 07 years |
Import license is required if importing multi-color printer-copiers with print speed of less than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years | |||
8443.31.30 | - - - Combination printer-copier-facsimile machines | Combination printer—copier – scanning & facsimile machines with multi-colors or in combination with other functions | Import license is required if importing multi-color printer-copiers with print speed of more than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 07 years |
Import license is required if importing multi-color printer-copiers with print speed of less than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years | |||
8443.31.90 | - - - Other | Excluding used single-color machines (black and white) | Import license is not required | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years |
8443.32 | - - Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network: |
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8443.32.10 | - - - Dot matrix printers |
| Import license is not required | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years |
8443.32.20 | - - - Ink-jet printers |
| Import license is required if importing ink-jet printers with print speed of more than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are more elongated than A3 | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 07 years |
Import license is required if importing ink-jet printers with print speed of less than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are less elongated than A3 | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years | |||
8443.32.30 | - - - Laser printers |
| Import license is required if importing laser printers with print speed of more than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are more elongated than A3 | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 07 years |
Import license is required if importing laser printers with print speed of less than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are less elongated than A3 | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years | |||
8443.32.50 | - - - Screen printing machinery for the manufacture of printed circuit boards or printed wiring boards |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
8443.32.60 | - - - Plotters |
| Import license is not required | |
8443.32.90 | - - - Other |
| Import license is not required | |
8443.39 | - - Other: |
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| - - - Electrostatic photocopying apparatus operating by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process): |
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8443.39.11 | - - - - Color |
| Import license | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years |
8443.39.19 | - - - - Other |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
8443.39.20 | - - - Electrostatic photocopying apparatus, operating by reproducing the original image via an intermediate onto the copy (indirect process) |
| Import license is not required | |
8443.39.30 | - - - Other photocopying apparatus incorporating an optical system |
| Import license is not required | |
8443.39.40 | - - - Ink-jet printers |
| Import license is required if importing ink-jet printers with print speed of more than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are more elongated than A3 | The time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 07 years |
Import license is required if importing laser printers with print speed of less than 60 pages (A4 size)/ minute or those used for printing pages that are less elongated than A3 | Brand-new; the time span from the manufacturing year to the import year is not exceeding 03 years | |||
8443.39.90 | - - - Other |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
| - Parts and accessories: |
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8443.91.00 | - - Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42 |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
8443.99 | - - Other: |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
8443.99.10 | - - - Of screen printing machinery for the manufacture of printed circuit boards or printed wiring boards |
| Import license is not required | Not applicable |
APPENDIX II
LIST OF PUBLICATION COMMODITIES, AND IMPORT PROCEDURES ATTACHED THEREWITH
(Issued with the Circular No. 41/2016/TT-BTTTT dated December 26, 2016 by Minister of Information and Communications)
HS code | Description | Import procedures | ||
Description as per the List of Vietnam s imports and exports | Specialized description in publication industry | Publication products imported for business purposes | Publication products imported for non-business purposes | |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
49.01 | Printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, whether or not in single sheets. |
| Written certification of import registration | Import license |
4901.10.00 | - In single sheets, whether or not folded | In single sheets, whether or not folded, sheaves with embossed words (excluding scientific and technical types) | ||
| - Other: |
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4901.91.00 | - - Dictionaries and encyclopedias, and serial installments thereof |
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4901.99 | - - Other: |
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4901.99.10 | - - - - - - Educational, technical, scientific, historical or cultural books | Political, law, economic, cultural, social, educational, scientific, technological, literary, artistic, geographic, military, religious, historical books (including children’s books and electronic books in storage devices) | ||
4901.99.90 | - - - Other |
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4903.00.00 | Children’s picture, drawing or coloring books. |
| Written certification of import registration | Import license |
49.05 | Maps and hydrographic or similar charts of all kinds, including atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and globes, printed. |
| Written certification of import registration | Import license |
4905.10.00 | - Globes | Globes (with maps printed or enclosed with books, or illustrated to books) | ||
| - Other: |
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4905.91.00 | - - In book form | In book form | ||
4905.99.00 | - - Other | In single sheets, flyers | ||
4910.00.00 | Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar blocks. |
| Written certification of import registration | Import license |
49.11 | Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs. |
| Written certification of import registration | Import license |
4911.10 | - Trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like: | Trade advertising materials, commercial catalogues and the like (excluding scientific and technical types) | ||
4911.10.90 | - - Other |
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| - Other: |
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4911.91.29 | - - - - Other |
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| - - - Other printed pictures and photographs: |
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4911.91.39 | - - - - Other |
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4911.91.90 | - - - Other |
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4911.99 | - - Other: |
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4911.99.90 | - - - Other | Carved, printed, litho printed matter replacing books or used to illustrate to books (other than those of 9702.00.00) and other | ||
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