Official Dispatch No. 5569/BCT-XNK dated June 22, 2011 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the implementation of Announcement No. 197/TB-BCT and the Circular No. 20/2011/TT-BCT

SOME CONTENTS RELATING TO ATTORNEY PAPER

The Ministry of Industry and Trade issued the Official Dispatch No. 5569/BCT-XNK dated June 22, 2011 on the implementation of Announcement No. 197/TB-BCT and the Circular No. 20/2011/TT-BCT.

Attorney paper is the agreement among relevant paper. To unify the implementation of the Announcement No. 197/TB-BCT dated May 06, 2011 on import of wine, cosmetics and mobile phones and the Circular No. 20/2011/TT-BCT dated May 12, 2011 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade stipulating additional procedures for imported cars from 09 seats or less, the Ministry of Industry and Trade suggests the General Department of Customs to guide custom units directly under the General Department of Customs some relevant contents to attorney paper, appointed as importer, distributor.

However, contents of attorney paper should include some primary contents as Name, address of attorney trader; name, address of authorized trader; scope of attorney (import and distribute goods in Vietnam); name, brand of authorized goods; time of attorney.

Languages of attorney paper are Vietnamese, English, or bilingually Vietnamese and English. Attorney trader must be genuine production firm, legal ownership firm for trademark or foreign trader who has rights to distribute those goods in Vietnam in case that production firm, legal ownership firm for that trademark doesn’t directly authorize.