4 January 2022
On 17 December 2021, the General Department of Customs issued Official Letter No. 5951/TCHQ-GSQL on the labeling of goods with the following contents:
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Goods labels of exports shall be presented according to the law of the importing country.
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In case the exported goods are produced from many different sources of raw materials, the origin of which cannot be determined, on the goods and packaging of the exported goods, write the country in which the last stage of finishing the goods is performed. It shall be presented by one of the phrases or a combination of phrases in order to present the finishing stage of goods as follows: “assembled in”, “bottled in”, “blended in”, “completed in”, “packed in”, “labeled in” followed by the country's name or region in which the last stage of finishing the goods is performed.
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Compulsory contents must be shown in a foreign language or Vietnamese on the original label of imported goods when carrying out customs clearance procedures.
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