Imported cars have their origin tightened

The General Department of Customs has just issued a document requesting the Customs Departments of provinces and cities to strengthen the inspection of origin of imported automobiles.

The General Department of Customs has just issued a document requesting the Customs Departments of provinces and cities to strengthen the inspection of origin of imported automobiles from ASEAN and India to apply special preferential tax rates within the framework of the free trade agreements that Vietnam is implementing.

Specifically, the General Department of Customs requires that when carrying out customs procedures for imported automobiles from ASEAN and India applying special preferential tax rates, customs units strengthen the work of checking the origin in accordance with the provisions of Circular 38/2015/TT-BTC; Circulars of the Ministry of Industry and Trade guiding on C/O enjoying special preferential tax rates; the process of checking and determining the origin issued with Decision 4286/QD-TCHQ of the General Department of Customs and guiding documents of the Ministry of Finance.

Imported car models will be tightened in terms of origin.

In particular, units should pay attention to checking the compliance with origin criteria applied to imported cars.

In case of any doubt regarding the validity of the C/O, the information declared on the C/O or the actual origin of the imported goods, the Customs Departments of provinces and cities must send reports and related documents to the General Department of Customs for verification. While waiting for the verification results, the imported goods will not be subject to special preferential tax rates but will be subject to the MFN preferential tax rates.

Signs that need to be noted regarding the validity of C/O include: Signs of forged signatures, C/O seals, inconsistencies between information about goods declared on C/O and documents in the customs dossier, doubts about the origin criteria on C/O or through actual inspection (if any) discovering that the origin shown on the goods is different from the declaration, regulations on direct transportation, etc.

Previously, from the beginning of 2017, the import tax on cars from ASEAN to Vietnam was reduced to 30% instead of 40% as before. At the same time, implementing the commitment of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), from 2018, imported cars from ASEAN countries will be 0%. This has caused the number of cars from markets in the ASEAN region imported to Vietnam to increase. Of which, the two largest countries are Thailand and Indonesia.

In addition, the number of cars imported from the Indian market also increased in the first months of 2017. This is also the reason why the General Department of Customs requested to strengthen the inspection of the origin of imported cars./.

According to VOV