Declaration Service for Importing Chemical products.
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Consulting Procedures For Declaration Of Imported Chemicals
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Decrees, and guiding circulars, but the list of chemicals on the list of management is lengthy. Profiles and forms to fill in information are complicated. But with our 10 years of experience, it’s all simple and fast. We are committed to completing the chemical declaration within 02 working days.
List Of Chemicals To Be Declared
THE LIST OF CHEMICALS TO BE DECLARED IS ADDITIONAL AND ADDITIONAL
(Issued together with the Government’s Decree No. 26/2011/ND-CP dated April 8, 2011)
STT | Name of chemical | Customs Code | Hazardous chemicals must have a chemical safety sheet |
first. | Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength | 2207 20 | |
2. | Sulfur of all kinds, other than sublimated sulfur, precipitated sulfur and colloidal sulfur | 2503 | |
3. | Asbestos (Asbestos) | 2524 | * |
4. | Set of mica | 2525 20 | |
5. | Talk ground or powdered | 2526 20 | |
6. | Oils and other products of high temperature coal tar distillation; similar products, having a greater mass of aromatic components than non-aromatic components | 2707 | * |
– Benzene | 2707 10 | ||
– Toluene | 2707 20 | ||
– Xylene | 2707 30 | ||
– Naphthalene | 2707 40 | ||
– Phenols | 2707 60 | ||
– Creosote oil | 2707 91 | * | |
7. | Distillate (tar) and distillate coke, obtained from coal tar or other mineral tar | 2708 | |
8. | Substances containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs), or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) | 2710 91 | * |
9. | Petroleum gas and other hydrocarbon gases | 2711 | |
– Natural gas (Liquid form) | 2711 11 | ||
– Propane | 2711 12 | ||
– Butane | 2711 13 | ||
– Ethylene, propylene, butylene, and butadiene | 2711 14 | ||
– Natural gas (Gas form) | 2711 21 | ||
ten. | Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine | 2801 | * |
– Chlorine | 2801 10 | ||
– Iodine | 2801 20 | ||
– fluorine, bromine | 2801 30 | ||
11 | Sublimation or precipitation of sulfur; colloidal sulfur | 2802 | |
twelfth | Acetylene | 2803 00 | * |
13 | Hydrogen, noble gases, and other non-metals | 2804 | |
– Hydrogen | 2804 10 | ||
– Argon | 2804 21 | ||
– Others | 2804 29 | ||
– Nitrogen | 2804 30 | ||
– Oxy | 2804 40 | ||
– Bor; tellurium | 2804 50 | * | |
– Phosphorus | 2804 70 | * | |
– Arsenal | 2804 80 | * | |
– Selenium | 2804 90 | * | |
14. | Alkali or alkaline earth metals; rare earth metals, scandium, and yttrium, whether or not mixed or alloyed with each other; Mercury | 2805 | * |
– Sodium | 2805 11 | ||
– Calcium | 2805 12 | ||
– Potassium | 2805 19 | ||
– Rare earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not mixed or alloyed together | 2805 30 | ||
– Mercury | 2805 40 | ||
15 | Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); hydrochloric acid | 2806 | |
– Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) | 2806 10 | ||
Chlorsulfuric acid | 2806 20 | ||
16. | Sulfuric acid; fuming sulfuric acid (oleum) | 2807 | * |
17. | Nitric acid; sulfonitric acid | 2808 | |
18. | Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acid, whether or not chemically defined | 2809 | * |
– Diphosphorus pentaoxide | 2809 10 | ||
Phosphoric Acid and Polyphosphoric Acid: | 2809 20 | ||
19. | Boron oxide; boric acid | 2810 | * |
20. | Other inorganic acids and other oxygen-containing inorganic compounds of nonmetals | 2811 | * |
– Hydrogen fluoride (hydrofluoric acid) | 2811 11 | ||
– Arsenic acid | 2811 19 | ||
– Silicon Dioxide | 2811 22 | ||
– Sulfur dioxide | 2811 23 | ||
– Diasenic pentaoxide | 2811 29 | ||
21. | Halogenides and halide oxides of nonmetals | 2812 | |
– Chloride and chloride oxide | 2812 10 | * | |
– Others | 2812 90 | ||
22. | Sulfide of non-metals; Commercial Phosphorus Trisulfide | 2813 | * |
– Carbon disulfide | 2813 10 | ||
– Others | 2813 90 | ||
23. | Ammonia, anhydrous or aqueous solution | 2814 | * |
24. | Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); sodium peroxide or potassium peroxide | 2815 | * |
25. | Magnesium hydroxide and magnesium peroxide; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides of strontium or barium | 2816 | |
26. | Zinc peroxide | 2817 00 | * |
27. | Chromium oxide and hydroxide | 2819 | * |
28. | Manganese oxide | 2820 | * |
29. | Iron oxide and iron hydroxide; colorants from the soil with ferrous content of Fe2O3 accounting for 70% or more | 2821 | * |
30. | Cobalt oxide and cobalt hydroxide | 2822 | * |
– Cobalt oxide, Cobalt hydroxide | 2822 00 | ||
thirty first. | Titanium oxide | 2823 | |
32. | Lead oxide | 2824 | * |
– Lead monoxide (litharge, massicot) | 2824 10 | ||
– Lead tetraoxide | 2824 20 | ||
33. | Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; inorganic bases; other metal oxides, hydroxides, and peroxides | 2825 | |
34. | Fluoride; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts | 2826 | * |
35. | Chloride, chloride oxide, and chloride hydroxide; bromide and bromide oxide; iodine and iodine oxide | 2827 | |
36. | Hypochlorite; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorite; hypobromite | 2828 | * |
37. | Chlorates and perchlorates; bromate and pebromate; ioddate and peiodate | 2829 | * |
38. | Sulfide; polysulfide, whether or not chemically defined | 2830 | * |
39. | Dithionite and sulfosate | 2831 | * |
40. | Sulfites; thiosulfate | 2832 | |
41. | Chromium(II) sulfate | 2833 23 | * |
Nickel sulfate | 2833 24 | * | |
Copper sulfate | 2833 25 | * | |
Zinc sulfate | 2833 26 | * | |
42. | Nitrite; nitrate | 2834 | * |
43. | Phosphinate (hypophosphite), phosphonate (phosphite) and phosphate; polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined | 2835 | |
– Phosphinates (hypophosphites) and phosphonates (phosphites) | 2835 10 | * | |
– Phosphates of mono or | 2835 22 | * | |
– Phosphate of trinatri | 2835 23 | * | |
– Phosphate of potassium | 2835 24 | * | |
– Another calcium phosphate (except monocalcium phosphate) | 2835 26 | ||
– Sodium triphosphate (sodium tripolyphosphate) | 2835 31 | * | |
44. | Carbonate salts | 2836 | * |
Ammonium carbonate | 2836 10 | ||
Baricarbonate | 2836 60 | ||
Lead carbonate | 2836 70 | ||
45. | Cyanide, cyanide oxide, and complex cyanide | 2837 | * |
forty six. | Fulminant, cyanate and thiocyanate | 2838 | * |
47. | Sodium metasilicate | 2839 11 | * |
48. | Borat; peroxoborates (perborates) | 2840 | * |
49. | Salt of oxometalic acid or perxometalic acid | 2841 | |
– Aluminat | 2841 10 | ||
– Zinc or lead chromate | 2841 20 | * | |
– Sodium dichromate | 2841 30 | ||
– Other chromates and dichromates; peroxochromate | 2841 50 | * | |
– Manganit, manganese and permanganate: | |||
– Potassium permanganate | 2841 61 | ||
+ Other | 2841 69 | ||
+ Molybdate | 2841 70 | ||
+ Tungsten | 2841 80 | ||
50. | Sodium arsenite | 2842 90 | * |
51. | Colloidal precious metals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, whether or not chemically defined; amalgam of precious metals | 2843 | |
– Silver nitrate | 2843 21 | * | |
– Gold Compound | 2843 30 | * | |
– Other compounds; amalgamation | 2843 90 | ||
52. | Inorganic or organic compounds of rare earth metals, of cerium or of scandium, or of mixtures of these metals | 2846 | |
– Cerium compounds | 2846 10 | ||
– Others | 2846 90 | ||
53. | Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not urea-solidified | 2847 | * |
54. | Phosphorus, whether or not chemically defined, other than iron phosphide | 2848 | * |
55. | Carbide, whether or not chemically defined | 2849 | * |
56. | Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined | 2850 | * |
57. | Mercury sulfate | 2852 00 | * |
58. | Open-chain hydrocarbons | 2901 | |
59. | Cyclic hydrocarbons | 2902 | |
60. | Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons | 2903 | * |
– Saturated chlorinated derivatives of open-chain hydrocarbons: | |||
+ Clomethane (methyl chloride) and (ethyl chloroethane) | 2903 11 | ||
Dichloromethane (methylene chloride) | 2903 12 | ||
Chloroform (trichloromethane) | 2903 13 | ||
+ Carbon tetrachloride | 2903 14 | ||
+ 1,2-Dichloroethane (ethylene dichloride) | 2903 15 | ||
+ Other | 2903 19 | ||
– Unsaturated chlorinated derivatives of open-chain hydrocarbons | |||
+ Vinyl chloride (chlorethylene) | 2903 21 | ||
+ Trichloroethylene | 2903 22 | ||
+ Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene) | 2903 23 | ||
+ Other | 2903 29 | ||
– Fluorinated, brominated or iodized derivatives of open-chain hydrocarbons | 2903 30 | ||
+ 1,2-Dibromethane | 2903 31 | * | |
+ Methyl bromide | 2903 39 | * | |
+ Trichlorofluoromethane | 2903 41 | ||
+ Dichlorodifluoromethane | 2903 42 | ||
+ Trichlorotrifluoroethanes | 2903 43 | ||
+ Dichlorotetrafluoretans and chloropentafluoroethanes | 2903 44 | ||
+ Other derivatives completely halogenated with only fluorine and chlorine | 2903 45 | ||
+ Bromoclorodiflouromethane, bromotrifluoromethane, and dibromo tetrafluoromethane | 2903 46 | ||
+ Completely different halogenated derivatives | 2903 47 | ||
+ Other | 2903 49 | ||
– Halogenated derivatives of cyclanic, cyclonic or cycloterpenic hydrocarbons: | |||
+ 1,2,3,4,5,6 – hexachlorocyclohexane | 2903 51 | ||
+ Other | 2903 59 | ||
Halogenated derivatives of aromatic hydrocarbons: | |||
+ Chlorobenzene, o-dichlorobenzene and p-dichlorobenzene | 2903 61 | ||
+ Hexachlorobenzene and DDT (1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis (p-chlorophenyl) ethane) | 2903 62 | ||
+ Other | 2903 69 | ||
sixty one. | Sulfated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not halogenated | 2904 | |
62. | Open-chain alcohols and their halogenated, sulphated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2905 | |
63. | Phenols; phenol alcohol | 2907 | * |
sixty four. | Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of phenol or of alcohol-phenol | 2908 | * |
– Only halogenated derivatives, their salts | 2908 10 | ||
– Pentachlorophenol (ISO) | 2908 11 | * | |
– Only sulphonated derivatives, their salts and esters | 2908 20 | ||
– Others | 2908 90 | ||
65. | Ethers, alcohol-ethers, phenol-ethers, phenol-alcohols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, ketone peroxides, (whether or not chemically defined), and their halogenated, sulfonated, nitrated or nitrosation of the above substances | 2909 | |
66. | Epoxides, epoxy alcohols, epoxy phenols, epoxy ethers with a three-membered ring and their halogenated, sulphated, nitrated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives | 2910 | |
sixty seven. | Acetals and hemiacetals, whether or not with another oxygen function and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2911 | |
68. | Aldehydes, with or without other oxygen function; cyclic polymers of aldehydes; paraformaldehyde | 2912 | * |
69. | Ketones and quinones, with or without other oxygen function, their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives | 2914 | * |
70. | Monofunctional, saturated, open-chain carboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitriso derivatives of the foregoing | 2915 | |
Formic acid, its salts and esters: | |||
– Formic acid | 2915 11 | ||
– Salt of formic acid | 2915 12 | ||
– Esters of formic acid | 2915 13 | ||
– Acetic acid and its salts; acetic anhydride: | |||
– Acetic acid | 2915 21 | ||
+ Sodium acetate | 2915 22 | ||
+ Cobalt acetate | 2915 23 | * | |
– Acetic Alhydride | 2915 24 | ||
+ Other | 2915 29 | ||
– Acetic acid ester: | |||
+ Ethyl acetate | 2915 31 | * | |
+ Vinyl acetate | 2915 32 | ||
+ N-butyl acetate | 2915 33 | * | |
+ Isobutyl acetate | 2915 34 | * | |
+ 2 – Etoxyethyl acetate | 2915 35 | ||
+ Other | 2915 39 | ||
– Mono-, di- or trichloroacetic acids, their salts and esters | 2915 40 | * | |
– Propionic acids, their salts, and esters | 2915 50 | * | |
– Butanoic acid, pentanoic acid, salts, and their esters | 2915 60 | * | |
– Palmitic acid, stearic acid, salts, and their eate | 2915 70 | * | |
– Others | 2915 90 | ||
71. | Unsaturated open-chain monofunctional carboxylic acids, monocyclic carboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulfonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives | 2916 | |
– Acrylic acid and its salts | 2916 11 | ||
– Esters of acrylic acid | 2916 12 | ||
– Methacrylic acid and its salts | 2916 13 | ||
– Ester of methacrylic acid | 2916 14 | ||
– Oleic acid, linoleic acid or linolenic acid, its salts and esters | 2916 15 | ||
– Others | 2916 19 | ||
– Monofunctional, cyclanic, cyclenic or cycloterpenic carboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and derivatives thereof | 2916 20 | ||
– Aromatic monomeric carboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and derivatives thereof: | |||
+ Benzoic acid, its salts and esters | 2916 31 | ||
+ Benzoyl peroxide and benzoyl chloride | 2916 32 | ||
Phenylacetic acid and its salts | 2916 34 | ||
+ Ester of phenylacetic acid | 2916 35 | ||
+ Binapacryl | 2916 36 | ||
2,4-Dichlorophenyl acetic acid and their salts and esters | 2916 39 | ||
72. | Multifunctional carboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of the foregoing | 2917 | |
– Open-chain monocyclic polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids, derivatives of the above: | |||
+ Oxalic acid, its salts and esters | 2917 11 | ||
+ Adipic acid, its salts and esters | 2917 12 | ||
+ Azelaic acid, sebacic acid, their salts and esters | 2917 13 | ||
+ Maleic Alhydride | 2917 14 | ||
+ Other | 2917 19 | ||
+ Cyclic, cyclenic or cycloterpenic polycyclic carboxlic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids and their derivatives | 2917 20 | ||
– Polyfunctional aromatic carboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids and their derivatives: | |||
+ Dibutyl orthophthalates | 2917 31 | * | |
+ Dioctyl orthophthalates | 2917 32 | * | |
+ Dinonyl or didecyl orthophthalates | 2917 33 | * | |
Other esters of acids orthophthalates | 2917 34 | * | |
+ Alhydride phthalic | 2917 35 | * | |
+ Terephthalic acid and its salts | 2917 36 | * | |
+ Dimethyl terephthalate | 2917 37 | * | |
+ Other | 2917 39 | ||
seventy three. | Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of the foregoing | 2918 | |
– Lactic acid, its salts and esters | 2918 11 | ||
– Salts and esters of tactaric acid | 2918 13 | ||
– citric acid | 2918 14 | ||
– Salts and esters of citric acid | 2918 15 | ||
– Gluconic acid, its salts and esters | 2918 16 | ||
– Others | 2918 19 | ||
– Carboxylic acids with phenol function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids and their derivatives: | |||
+ Salicylic acid and its salts and esters | 2918 21 | ||
+ O-acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters | 2918 22 | ||
+ Other esters of salicylic acid and its salts | 2918 23 | ||
+ Other | 2918 29 | ||
– Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids and their derivatives | 2918 30 | ||
74. | Tri(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate | 2919 10 | * |
75. | Other inorganic acid esters of nonmetals (other than esters of hydrogen halides) and their salts; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of the foregoing | 2920 | |
76. | Amino functional compounds | 2921 | |
77. | Oxygen functional amino compounds (except Lysine; tryptophane; threonine) | 2922 | |
78. | Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithin and other phosphoaminolipids, whether or not chemically defined. | 2923 | |
– Choline and its salt | 2923 10 | ||
Lecithin and other phosphoaminolipids | 2923 20 | ||
79. | Functional compound carboxamide; amide functional compounds of carbonic acid | 2924 | |
80. | Compounds containing carboxyimides (including saccharides and their salts) and imine functional compounds | 2925 | |
81. | Nitrile functional compound | 2926 | * |
82. | Diazo, azo or azoxy compounds | 2927 | |
83. | Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine | 2928 | |
84. | Other nitrogen functional compounds | 2929 | |
85. | Sulfur compounds – organic (except methionine) | 2930 | |
eighty six. | Other organic-inorganic compounds | 2931 | |
eighty seven. | Heterocyclic compounds containing only oxygen heteroatomic(s) | 2932 | |
88. | Heterocyclic compounds containing only nitrogen(s) | 2933 | |
89. | Propulsion set | 3601 | * |
90. | Prepared explosives, except propellants | 3602 | * |
91. | Cerium-iron alloys and other flammable, combustible alloys in any form; products made of combustible materials as noted in note 2 to this chapter | 3606 | * |
– Liquid fuel or liquefied petroleum gas in a tank used for pumping or refilling cigarette lighter gas, with a capacity not exceeding 300 cm3. | 3606 10 | ||
– Others | 3606 90 | ||
92. | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than substances of heading 27.07 or of heading 29.02 | 3817 00 | * |
ninety three. | Petroleum resins, curmaron resins, indens or curmaron-indens resins and polyterpenes | 3911 10 | * |
Dossier For Registration Of Declaration Of Imported Chemicals
The declaring organization or individual shall make 01 (one) set of documents, including the following documents:
- Chemical declaration;
- Invoice for sale of chemicals. If an organization or individual does not have a chemical purchase and sale invoice, the application file for a Certificate may submit a chemical purchase and sale contract and an estimated invoice. The official chemical purchase and sale invoice, stamped and signed by the business leader, shall be submitted at the time of receipt of the Certification. For a chemical purchase and sale contract used for multiple imports, from the next import of the contract, the organization or individual is responsible for submitting an official chemical purchase and sale invoice stamped, signed, and stamped. the name of the business leader and a copy of the certificate of the first shipment under the same contract;
- Other documents (if any).
For chemicals that are hazardous chemicals on the List of chemicals subject to declaration, the declaration dossier must be accompanied by a chemical safety sheet in Vietnamese according to the form prescribed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the English version in case it is necessary to compare. , compare.
If the chemical has been previously declared at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the organization or individual importing dangerous chemicals is not required to return the chemical safety sheet when the chemical composition remains unchanged. This regulation does not apply to organizations and individuals declaring imported chemicals online;
Before chemical clearance, organizations and individuals importing chemicals are responsible for declaring chemicals to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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