THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Official Dispatch No. 1767/BTC-TCHQ dated February 11, 2014 of the Ministry of Finance on enhancing management to prevent violations in taking advantage of e-customs
Respectfully to: Directors of provincial/municipal Customs Departments
Recently, the implementation of e-customs procedures has satisfied basically requirements of management and facilitate for export and import activities. However, through review and assessment of process applied in e-customs procedures, there are some shortcomings affecting to the state management in customs for export and import goods. Aiming to limit the aforesaid shortcomings, the Ministry of Finance guides some contents as follows:
1. On declaration and submission of customs declarations for export goods:
a. Customs declarers shall declare and submit customs declarations for export goods after having gathered export goods at locations under regulations and notified the customs agencies about the tentative time for containerization, loading goods on means of transport. Locations for gathering goods include: Border-gate areas, sea ports, international airports; ICD, bonded warehouses, CFS warehouses; locations for checking concentrated goods, locations for checking export goods at frontier; warehouses, yards for gathering export goods of enterprises already recognized to be eligible for Customs supervision by customs agencies (warehouses, yards for gathering export goods must have fences, gates, doors for locking, sealing and have camera for monitoring).
b. Declaration on locations for gathering goods: To declare locations for gathering export goods at box 29 (box of other) on customs declaration for export.
