Hon Gai Customs offers many utility products

Hon Gai Customs ensures smooth customs clearance

Customs workat Hon Gai Seaport Customs Branch (QuangNinh Customs Department). Photo: Q.H

Search anytime and anywhere

Recently, the bilingual import-export tariff, integrating the tariffs and the policy of reference goods according to the HS code implemented by customs officers of Hon Gai Seaport Customs Branch (QuangNinh Customs Department) have been appreciated and shared widely in and outside the customs sector. Users are not only customs officers and thebusiness community but also students, trainee, lecturers, researchers and economists. The Vietnam import and export tariff file 2020 integrates 19 tariffs and more than 50 tax policies of the Government, ministries and sectors to refer commodity codes and assess nearly 200,000 people and thousands of likes and shares, comments

The leaders of Hon Gai Seaport Customs Branch said users can easily look up anytime, anywhere and by any device, ensuring speed and accuracy. Users only need type the key word Import and Export Tariff 2020 in Google or Facebook, millions of results will display, including the import-export tariff file summarized by Hon Gai Customs Seaport Customs Branch. VCCI’s WTO Centrehas published to share with businesses.

Besides bilingual import-export tariff, Customs officers of Hon Gai Customs Seaport Customs Branch continue to develop and put into use the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes 2017- (HS 2017), the Supplementary Explanatory Notes (SEN) and the Compendium of Classification Opinions.

The Vietnam Import-Export Classification Nomenclature, General Rules and import-export tariff, the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes, the Supplementary Explanatory Notes (SEN), and Compendium of classification Opinions are important materials forclassifying import-export goods and necessary not only for Customs officials but as well asfor businesses.

However, these materials are issued inlimited quantities, Customs officers of Hon Gai Customs came up with the idea of ​​implementing the project of digitising WCO’s materials including the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes the Compendium of classification Opinions to share with Customs officials and the business community.

The digitalized materials have solved problems on the lack of supply and met the demand of users.

The Facebook page of Hon Gai Customs Seaport Customs Branch has attracted thousands of likes and more than 50,000 followers. The searching on digitised materials with character recognition is faster than looking up in printed materials and saving working space. In particular, each set of printed materials costs several million VND, while digitised materials are shared completely free of charge, so thousands of users will save a lot of costs.

Merging new documents

On April 20, 2018, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular 39/2018/TT-BTC amending and supplementing Circular 38/2015/TT-BTC regulating customs procedures, inspection and supervision, tax and tax administration for import-export goods. This circular plays an important role and covers all customs operation and is closely related to Customs agencies as well as import and export enterprises. Many parts of Circular 39 wererevised compared to Circular 38, so monitoring and searching between the twocirculars faces a lot of difficulties.

From this fact, customs officials of Hon Gai Customs Seaport Branch havemerged contents of the two circulars and created chapters, sections and clauses to facilitate enterprises and customs officers in searching and performing.

In addition, performance of intellectual property rights is one of contents focused on deploying by the Customs sector. According to statistics, nearly 500 trademarks are registered for intellectual property rights sent to the General Department of Vietnam Customs. Inspection and identification of trademarks registered for intellectual property rights is a difficult problem for customs officials checking dossiers and conducting physical inspections, especially under high pressure.

To support customs officials in performing, the branch has developed a utility to support in checking the name of goods containing trademarks registered intellectual property rights, effectively support customs officials in performing their work.