On November 1, 2024, the General Department of Customs issued Decision No. 2537/QD-TCHQ, guiding enterprises to carry out customs procedures for goods when the VNACCS/VCIS system encountered a complete breakdown.
Key points of Decision No. 2537/QD-TCHQ and its procedures include:
Applicability:
- When the VNACCS/VCIS system has a complete breakdown, it is impossible to carry out e-customs procedures.
- Other professional support systems are still operating normally.
Temporary paper-based customs procedures:
- Customs procedures for exports and imports.
- Customs procedures for goods in transit, transshipment, export, import, or transfer to another customs location under independent transportation procedures.
Principles of handling system failures:
- For declarations already registered and assigned a number on the VNACCS system: The customs authority will print two copies of the declaration from the auxiliary system (V5) to proceed with customs clearance under this procedure.
- After the VNACCS/VCIS system is restored, the assigned customs officer will update the processing results into the system.
- For declarations that have not been registered and issued numbers on the VNACCS system, enterprises declare customs on paper declarations.
- For goods transported independently, enterprises declare the use of the form “transport list”, number 21a/BKVC/GSQL in Appendix V of Circular 39/2018/TT-BTC.
- For other information that needs to be additionally declared but is not on the paper declaration (for example, anti-dumping duty), the customs authority will guide the declaration in the blank criteria and clearly state the contents.
Other contents are also detailed in this document:
- General principles, channeling principles.
- Detailed procedures for customs clearance of exported goods.
- Specific steps for customs clearance procedures for exported, imported goods, and goods transferred under independent transportation procedures.
Details of the decision: see here.
Effective Date:
- The decision takes effect upon notification from the General Department of Customs about a VNACCS/VCIS system failure.
- The General Department of Customs will announce the cessation of this decision once the VNACCS/VCIS system is restored.
(According to Decision 2537/QD-TCHQ dated November 01, 2024)
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