Procedures for granting licenses to import or temporarily import cars and motorcycles for non-commercial purposes

Procedure name Procedures for granting licenses to import or temporarily import cars and motorcycles for non-commercial purposes
Decision issued Decision 2628/QD-BTC dated December 9, 2016
How to perform Manually (submit paper documents according to regulations).
Resolution deadline 07 days from the date of receipt of complete documents.
Implementation object – Vietnamese people residing abroad are intellectuals, experts, and skilled workers who return home to work for a period of one year or more at the invitation of a Vietnamese State agency. – Foreign experts participating in the management and implementation of ODA programs and projects in Vietnam ensure conditions for temporary import of cars and motorbikes specified in Decision No. 119/2009/QD-TTg October 1, 2009 by the Prime Minister. – Organizations and individuals may import or temporarily import cars and motorbikes according to the provisions of international treaties that Vietnam has signed or acceded to. – Other subjects are allowed to import cars and motorbikes for non-commercial purposes according to relevant laws. – Customs authorities and customs officers carry out customs procedures and manage cars and motorbikes of subjects allowed to import or temporarily import for non-commercial purposes. – Vietnamese organizations and individuals receiving the transfer of temporarily imported cars and motorbikes, tax-free imports of subjects specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article and tax-free imported cars of Subjects specified in Clause 4 (hereinafter referred to as car buyers).
Implementing agencies – Authority with decision-making authority: Provincial and city Customs Department.

– Agency directly implementing administrative procedures: Provincial and city Customs Department

Result License to import or temporarily import vehicles.
Fees and charges No specified
Requires implementation conditions – For cars: comply with current legal regulations for used cars or unused cars. – For motorbikes: are unused vehicles, ensuring national technical regulations on technical safety quality and environmental protection for motorbikes and motorbikes (QCVN14: 2011/BGTVT) , of a type allowed to be registered and circulated in Vietnam (except for cases of import or temporary import without registration or circulation for modeling, display, product introduction, exhibition, research, and testing) . – Subjects specified in Clause 4, Article 2, if imported in the form of gifts or donations, within 01 (one) year, each Vietnamese organization or individual may only import 01 car and 01 motorbike. donated by foreign organizations and individuals.
Legal grounds – Customs Law No. 54/2014/QH13 dated June 23, 2014;

– Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP dated November 20, 2013 of the Government detailing the implementation of the Commercial Law on international goods purchase and sale activities and buying, selling and processing agency activities and transit of goods with foreign countries;

– Decree No. 08/2015/ND-CP dated January 21, 2015 of the Government detailing and implementing measures of the Customs Law on customs procedures, inspection, supervision and control.

– Circular No. 143/2015/TT-BTC dated September 11, 2015 of the Ministry of Finance regulating customs procedures and management of cars and motorbikes of subjects allowed to import or temporarily import without permission. for commercial purposes

– Circular No. 38/2015/TT-BTC dated March 25, 2015 of the Ministry of Finance regulating customs procedures; customs inspection and supervision; export tax, import tax and tax administration for exported and imported goods.

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