List of Waste Temporarily Suspended from Business Activities of Temporary Import, Re-export, and Transshipment of Goods

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has just issued Circular No. 18/2024/TT-BCT stipulating the list of waste temporarily suspended from business activities of temporary import, re-export, and transshipment of goods

Accordingly, the waste products temporarily suspended for temporary import, re-export, and transshipment of goods include:

Chapter	HS Code			Item Description
Chapter 25	2520			Gypsum; dry plaster; plaster plaster (including calcined gypsum or calcined calcium sulphate), whether or not stained, with or without the addition of a small amount of catalyst or inhibitor.
Chapter 26	2618	00	00	Granular slag (sand slag) from the iron or steel smelting industry.
	2619	00	00	Slag, metallurgical slag (except particle slag), slag chips and other wastes from the iron or steel smelting industry.
	2620			Slag, ash and residue (except those obtained from the production of iron or steel), containing metals, arsenic, or their compounds.
Chapter 38	3818	00	00	Chemical elements that have been stirred up for use in electronics, in the form of disks, thin sheets or similar forms; chemical compounds that have been activated for use in electronics.
Chapter 39	3919			Sheets, slabs, films, leaves, tapes, strips and other flat shapes are self-adhesive, plastic, with or without rolls.
	3920			Sheets, slabs, films, foils and other strips, made of plastic, non-porous and unreinforced, unlaminated, unreinforced or similarly combined with other materials.
	3921			Sheets, slabs, films, leaves and other strips, made of plastic.
	3923			Products used in transporting or packaging goods, made of plastic; buttons, caps, valve caps and other types of stoppers, made of plastic.
				– Bags and pouches (including cone-shaped types):
	3923	21		– – From polymers from ethylene:
				– – – Aluminum foil reinforced sterile bags (except for retort bottom bags):
	3923	21	11	– – – – Width of 315 mm or more and length of 410 mm or more, attached with a sealed seal cover.
	3923	21	19	– – – – Other types.
	3923	29		– – From other plastics:
	3923	29	10	– – – Sterile bags with or without aluminum foil reinforcement (except for retort bottom bags), width of 315 mm or more and length of 410 mm or more, attached with a sealed seal cover.
	3923	29	90	– – – Other types.
Chapter 47	4707			Recycled paper or cardboard (scrap and debris).
Chapter 50	5003	00	00	Waste silk (including cocoons not suitable for spinning silk, scrap fibers and recycled fibers).
Chapter 51	5103			Fine or coarse fleece or animal wool scraps, including yarn scrap but other than recycled wool.
	5104	00	00	Recycled fine or coarse fleece or animal hair.
Chapter 52	5202			Cotton scrap (including yarn scrap and recycled cotton).
Chapter 55	5505			Scrap (including fiber scrap, fiber scrap and recycled materials) from man-made fibers.
Chapter 63	6310			Used or new scrap fabrics, scraps of rope, cordage, ropes and cables, and scraps from scrap fabrics, ropes, cordages, ropes or cables, from woven materials.
Chapter 70	7001	00	00	Broken glass and other scrap glass and debris, except glass from cathode lamp tubes or other activated glass of heading 85.49; glass in the form of blocks.
Chapter 72	7204			Scrap and iron scrap; scrap casting ingots recooked from iron or steel.
Chapter 74	7404	00	00	Scrap and debris of copper.
Chapter 75	7503	00	00	Nickel scrap and debris.
Chapter 76	7602	00	00	Aluminum scrap and debris.
Chapter 79	7902	00	00	Zinc scrap and debris.
Chapter 80	8002	00	00	Scrap and tin debris.
Chapter 81	8101			Tungsten and tungsten-based products, including scrap and debris.
	8101	97	00	– – Scrap and debris
	8102			Molybdenum and molybdenum products, including scrap and debris.
	8102	97	00	– – Scrap and debris.
	8104			Magnesium and magnesium products, including scrap and debris.
	8104	20	00	– Scrap and debris.
	8108			Titanium and titanium-based products, including scrap and debris.
	8108	30	00	– Scrap and debris.
	8109			Zircon and zircon-based products, including scrap and debris.
				– Scrap and debris.
	8109	31	00	– – Contains hafnium content in zircon less than 1/500 by mass.
	8109	39	00	– – Others
	8110			Antimony and antimony-based products, including scrap and debris.
	8110	20	00	– Scrap and debris.
	8111			Manganese and manganese-based products, including scrap and debris.
	8111	00	10	– Scrap and debris.
	8112			Beryllium, chromium, hafinium, renium, taluene, cadmium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, indium and niobium (columbium), and products from these metals, including scrap and scrap.
				-Chromium:
	8112	22	00	– – Scrap and debris.

Products with HS codes 3919, 3920, 3921, 3923.21, and 3923.29 only apply to used goods.

The temporary suspension of transshipment of goods under this Circular does not apply to cases where goods are directly transported from the exporting country to the importing country without passing through Vietnamese border gates.

Circular 18/2024/TT-BCT is a continuation of Circular 27/2019/TT-BCT. Compared to Circular 27/2019/TT-BCT, the list of waste products temporarily suspended from business activities of temporary import, re-export, and transshipment of goods is more detailed, with clear HS codes and product descriptions.

Circular 18/2024/TT-BCT will take effect from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2029.

(According to Circular 18/2024/TT-BCT issued on October 8, 2024)

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