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Decree on trading in duty-free goods

VGP – The Government has issued a Decree on trading in duty-free goods, stipulating eligible persons and conditions for purchase of duty-free goods.

January 20, 2017 3:28 PM GMT+7

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1 – Duty-free goods are sold to passengers on exit and transit after completing exit and transit procedures, on international flights from Viet Nam or waiting departures.

Passengers on exit or transit through international border gates, stations, harbors and passengers on international flights from Viet Nam can purchase duty-free goods.

Foreigners, overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese awaiting departures shall have to show their valid passports and air tickets with registered date of departure when registering to buy goods. The goods shall be delivered to the passengers at the exit checkpoints upon the completion of the exit procedures.

2 - Passengers on international flights to Viet Nam can buy duty-free goods on airplanes launching international flights to Viet Nam.

3 - Persons on entry shall be entitled to buy goods according to the quantity limits prescribed in the regulations on duty-free luggage limits for entry passengers.

4 - Subjects enjoying diplomatic privileges and immunity shall have to provide goods-buying books together with their passports or identity cards issued by Viet Nam's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, if they buy goods for personal use; or the goods-buying books together with diplomatic notes or their agencies' introduction papers if they buy goods for their agencies.

5 – Subjects are sailors working on vessels on international routes (including foreign vessels and Vietnamese vessels on international routes) may purchase duty-free goods at harbors type 1 and duty-free shops serving for personal demands while the vessels anchor at Viet Nam's seaports and outside Viet Nam’s waters after the ships depart.

By Thuy Dung