In order to prevent enterprises from illegally importing waste materials by fraudulent means, Vietnam issued a notice which further strengthens the monitoring and management of imported waste.
Recently, Vietnam’s import and sales volume of waste have increased significantly, as well as the risk of environment pollution. In fact, some enterprises used fraudulent means to regulate the import of waste, Vietnam said.
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In order to prevent this behavior, the General Department of Vietnam Customs instructed the following:
1. Manifest needs to provide full company detailed information (such as company name, tax code, company address, “Environmental permit for importing waste materials used as raw materials for production’s license number); full cargo detailed information (such as waste type, at least 4 digit’s HS code); general names will not be accepted (such as General cargo, freight of all kinds, FAK, said to contain, STC). If detailed information of import company and cargo are not provided, declaration will not be accepted.
2. After receiving the information on the e-manifest system, it is necessary to review and analyze the information within 4 working hours, as follows:
- If it is confirmed the transported goods are waste, it is necessary to inform the shipping lines and the port operating company immediately that they can not discharge those goods;
- If the vessel has not yet arrived Vietnam’s terminal or has just arrived but has not yet discharged the cargo and the e-manifest system declares that it is waste cargo, the consignee information in the manifest will be compared to enterprises who have obtained the Environmental certificate for importing waste materials;
- If the vessel has not yet arrived Vietnam’s terminal or has just arrived but has not yet discharged the cargo, it is reported as used goods in the manifest, not reported as waste but has waste’s feature and the consignee is not in the the list of Environmental certificate it will be listed as key control cargo and be cleared.
3. The customs department will check the the validity and the information of Environmental certificate for importing waste materials;
4. Customs department will check actually for all cargoes which declared as import waste.
For more information you can consult the PDF below