List of goods banned from import 2024
Follow Appendix I, "List of goods banned from import" issued together Decree No. 69/2018/ND-CP dated May 15, 2018 of the Government detailing a number of articles of the Law on Foreign Trade Management.
APPENDIX I
LIST OF GOODS PROHIBITED FROM IMPORT
(Attach Decree No. 69/2018/ND-CP May 15, 2018 of the Government)
This category applies to operations import commercial and non-commercial goods; importing goods in border areas; Government and non-Government aid goods.
| STT | Description of goods | Ministries and ministerial-level agencies with management authority |
| 1 | Weapons, ammunition, explosives (except industrial explosives), military technical equipment. | Department of Defense |
| 2 | Fireworks of all kinds (except marine safety flares according to instructions from the Ministry of Transport), sky lights, and devices that interfere with vehicle speedometers. | Police |
| 3 | a) Schedule 1 chemicals are specified in the Convention prohibiting the development, production, storage, use and destruction of chemical weapons and the Appendix issued with Decree No. 38/2014/ND-CP dated June 6 May 2014 of the Government on the management of chemicals controlled by the Convention prohibiting the development, production, storage, use and destruction of chemical weapons.
b) Chemicals on the List of banned chemicals specified in Appendix III issued with Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP dated October 9, 2017 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of Article of Chemical Law. |
Ministry of Industry and Trade |
| 4 | Consumer goods, medical equipment, and used vehicles, including the following product groups:
a) Textiles, shoes, clothes. b) Electronic goods. c) Refrigeration goods. d) Household electrical goods. d) Medical equipment. e) Interior decoration goods. g) Household goods made of ceramic, porcelain, glass, metal, plastic, rubber, plastic and other materials. h) Bicycles. i) Motorcycles and mopeds. |
Ministry of Industry and Trade |
| 5 | Types of cultural products that are banned from dissemination, circulation or have had decisions to suspend dissemination, circulation, recall, confiscation, or destruction in Vietnam. | Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism |
| 6 | Goods are used information technology products | Ministry of Information and Communications |
| 7 | a) Types of publications banned from dissemination and circulation in Vietnam.
b) Postage stamps are banned from trading, exchange, display and propaganda according to the provisions of the Postal Law. c) Radio equipment and radio wave application equipment do not comply with radio frequency plans and relevant technical regulations according to the provisions of the Radio Frequency Law. |
Ministry of Information and Communications |
| 8 | a) Right-hand drive vehicles (including disassembled forms and forms that have had their handlebars converted before being imported into Vietnam), except for specialized right-hand drive vehicles operating within the narrow and not participating in traffic including: cranes; canal digging machine; street sweeping and watering vehicles; Garbage and household waste trucks; road construction vehicles; Passenger vehicles in the airport; forklifts in warehouses and ports; concrete pump trucks; Vehicles can only move in golf courses and parks.b) Cars, four-wheeled vehicles with engines and assembled parts have their frame and engine numbers erased, edited, or re-engraved.
c) Types of trailers and semi-trailers with erased, chiseled, or re-stamped frame numbers. d) Types of motorbikes, specialized motorbikes, and motorbikes that have had their frame and engine numbers erased, edited, or re-engraved. |
The transportation |
| 9 | Used supplies and vehicles, including:
a) Engines, frames, tubes, tires, spare parts, engines of cars, trailers, semi-trailers, and four-wheeled motor vehicles. b) Chassis of cars and tractors with engines (including new chassis with used engines, used chassis with new engines), c) Cars whose structure has been changed to convert functions compared to the original design. d) Used cars, trailers, semi-trailers (except specialized trailers and semi-trailers), four-wheeled passenger vehicles with motors that are older than 5 years, calculated from the year production to year of import. d) Ambulance car. |
The transportation |
| 10 | Chemicals in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention. | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| 11 | Pesticides are banned from use in Vietnam. | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| 12 | a) Specimens of endangered, precious and rare wild animals and plants listed in CITES Appendix I originating from nature imported for commercial purposes.
b) Specimens and crafted products of species: white rhino (Ceratotherium simum), black rhino (Diceros bicomis), African elephant (Loxodonta africana). |
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| 13 | Scraps, waste, refrigeration equipment using CFC | Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment |
| 14 | Products and materials containing asbestos belong to the ammibole group. | Ministry of Construction |
