Circular No. 11/2026/TT-BXD
Circular providing the list, specifications, and technical criteria of minerals used as construction materials permitted for export
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Unofficial English translation for reference only — the Vietnamese original is the legally authoritative text.
Contents
- Article 1. Scope of regulation and subjects of application
- Article 2. List, specifications, technical criteria, origin, and dossiers for minerals used as construction materials for export
- Article 3. Responsibility for implementation and organization of enforcement
- Article 4. Transitional provisions
- Article 5. Effect
- APPENDIX I
MINISTRY OF CONSTRUCTION
No.: 11/2026/TT-BXD
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
Hanoi, March 31, 2026
CIRCULAR
PROVIDING THE LIST, SPECIFICATIONS, AND TECHNICAL CRITERIA OF MINERALS USED AS CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PERMITTED FOR EXPORT
Pursuant to Decree No. 21/2026/NĐ-CP dated January 16, 2026 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 193/2025/NĐ-CP dated July 2, 2025 of the Government detailing a number of articles and measures for implementation of the Law on Geology and Minerals and detailing the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Geology and Minerals;
Pursuant to Decree No. 33/2025/NĐ-CP dated February 25, 2025 of the Government defining the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Construction;
At the proposal of the Director General of the Department of Science, Technology, Environment and Construction Materials;
The Minister of Construction promulgates the Circular providing the list, specifications, and technical criteria of minerals used as construction materials permitted for export.
Article 1. Scope of regulation and subjects of application
1. Scope of regulation
This Circular provides the list, specifications, and technical criteria of Group II and Group III minerals used as construction materials permitted for export as prescribed in Clause 38, Article 1 of Decree No. 21/2026/NĐ-CP dated January 16, 2026 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 193/2025/NĐ-CP dated July 2, 2025 detailing a number of articles and measures for implementation of the Law on Geology and Minerals and detailing the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Geology and Minerals.
2. Subjects of application
This Circular applies to state management agencies and domestic and foreign organizations and individuals engaged in activities related to the export of minerals used as construction materials in Vietnam.
Article 2. List, specifications, technical criteria, origin, and dossiers for minerals used as construction materials for export
1. The list, specifications, and technical criteria of the types of minerals used as construction materials permitted for export are provided in Appendix I issued together with this Circular.
2. Minerals used as construction materials for export must have a lawful origin, including minerals mined, recovered, traded, or transported within the territory of Vietnam on the basis of a Mineral Mining License or a certificate of registration for mineral recovery issued by a competent state agency in accordance with the law on geology and minerals.
3. Dossiers for the export of minerals used as construction materials shall be carried out in accordance with the law on customs and the law on foreign trade management.
Article 3. Responsibility for implementation and organization of enforcement
1. Relevant ministries, sectors, and localities shall coordinate with the Ministry of Construction to organize periodic or unscheduled inspections of compliance with the law in export activities of minerals used as construction materials in localities.
2. The customs authority shall take the lead in inspecting exported goods that are minerals used as construction materials in accordance with the law on customs; shall coordinate with the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, and provincial-level People's Committees where it is necessary to clearly determine the list, specifications, technical criteria, and origin of minerals used as construction materials for export; and shall coordinate in providing information and data on the export of minerals used as construction materials through border checkpoints to the Ministry of Construction and provincial-level People's Committees upon request.
3. Provincial-level People's Committees shall coordinate with the Ministry of Construction in performing the function of state management and directing relevant agencies to conduct periodic or unscheduled inspections of export activities of minerals used as construction materials within their localities. On an annual periodic basis (or on an unscheduled basis upon request of a competent authority), they shall report on the situation of mineral exports using Form No. 01 issued together with this Circular before January 30 each year, for the Ministry of Construction to consolidate and report to the Prime Minister.
4. Exporting enterprises shall be responsible before the law for minerals used as construction materials for export, ensuring lawful origin and compliance with the list, specifications, and technical criteria for minerals used as construction materials for export prescribed in this Circular; and shall retain and provide, upon request of a competent authority, dossiers proving the lawful origin and the specifications and technical criteria of the exported minerals (including: the lawful Mineral Mining License; the mineral purchase-sale contract; invoices; the technical criteria analysis report issued by a testing organization; the export contract; and other related documents); and shall prepare annual periodic reports (or unscheduled reports upon request of a competent authority) to be sent to the provincial-level People's Committee (where the enterprise carries out export activities) using Form No. 02 issued together with this Circular before January 15 each year.
Article 4. Transitional provisions
Dossiers for the export of minerals used as construction materials for which the customs declaration was registered before the effective date of this Circular shall continue to be processed in accordance with the regulations in force at the time of registration of the declaration; where a new customs declaration is registered after the effective date of this Circular, this Circular shall apply.
Article 5. Effect
1. This Circular takes effect from June 1, 2026.
2. Circular No. 04/2021/TT-BXD dated June 30, 2021 of the Minister of Construction guiding the export of minerals used as construction materials ceases to be effective from the effective date of this Circular./.
Recipients:
- The Secretariat of the Party Central Committee;
- The Prime Minister;
- The Deputy Prime Ministers;
- The Office of the National Assembly;
- The Office of the President;
- The Government Office;
- The Ethnic Council and Committees of the National Assembly;
- Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Government-attached agencies;
- The Supreme People's Procuracy;
- The Supreme People's Court;
- The State Auditor General;
- The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front;
- Ministry of Construction: the Minister, Deputy Ministers, affiliated and attached units;
- People's Councils and People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities;
- Departments of Construction of provinces and centrally run cities;
- The Department for Legal Document Inspection and Law Enforcement Organization (Ministry of Justice);
- The Official Gazette; the Government Web Portal; the Web Portal of the Ministry of Construction;
- Filed at: the Administration Department, Department of Science, Technology, Environment and Construction Materials.
FOR THE MINISTER
DEPUTY MINISTER
Nguyễn Văn Sinh
APPENDIX I
LIST, SPECIFICATIONS, AND TECHNICAL CRITERIA OF MINERALS USED AS CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR EXPORT (Issued together with Circular No. 11/2026/TT-BXD dated March 31, 2026 of the Minister of Construction providing the list, specifications, and technical criteria of minerals used as construction materials permitted for export)
| HS code | List of minerals | Specifications, technical criteria |
| I | Silica sand for glass making and construction glass or other purposes | |
| 2505.10.00.10 | Fine and ultra-fine silicon oxide powder | Processed (beneficiated, washed, dried, ground, particle size classified) SiO2 content ≥ 97.7%, Fe2O3 ≤ 0.03% Particle size ≤ 96 µm |
| 2505.10.00.20 | Fine silicon oxide powder | Processed (beneficiated, washed, dried, ground, particle size classified) SiO2 content ≥ 99.3%, Fe2O3 ≤ 0.01% Particle size ≤ 500 µm |
| 2505.10.00.90 | White silica sand, yellow silica sand | Processed (beneficiated, washed, particle size classified) SiO2 content ≥ 95% Particle size ≤ 2.5 mm |
| 2505.90.00 | Other silica sand used for foundry moulds and construction materials | Processed (beneficiated, washed, particle size classified) SiO2 content ≥ 85% Particle size ≤ 2.5 mm |
| 2506.10.00 | Sand crushed from quartz rock | Processed (crushed, ground, sieved and particle size classified) SiO2 content ≥ 95% Particle size ≤ 2.5 mm |
| II | Natural stone for facing/paving stone, ornamental stone | |
| 2506.10.00 | Quartz | Roughly trimmed, sawn, cut or otherwise into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 300 mm or into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 |
| 2506.20.00 | Quartzite | Roughly trimmed, sawn, cut or otherwise into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 300 mm or into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 |
| 2514.00.00 | Slate | Roughly trimmed, sawn, cut or otherwise into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 50 mm |
| 2515.12.10.10 | White marble in blocks | Sawn, cut or otherwise into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 |
| 2515.12.10.90 | Other marble in blocks | Sawn, cut or otherwise into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 |
| 2515.12.20 | Marble (including white marble) | Sawn, cut or otherwise into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 300 mm |
| 2515.20.00.10 | - - White limestone in blocks | Sawn, cut or otherwise into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 |
| 2515.20.00.90 | Dolomitic limestone, other limestone | Sawn, cut or otherwise into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 300 mm |
| 2516.12.10 | Granite in blocks | Sawn, cut or otherwise into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 |
| 2516.12.20 | Granite | Sawn, cut or otherwise into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 300 mm |
| 2516.20.20 | Sandstone | Sawn, cut or otherwise into blocks with a volume ≥ 0.1 m3 or into rectangular (including square) slabs of a thickness ≤ 300 mm |
| 2516.90.00 | Gabbro, basalt, porphyry and other stone | Roughly trimmed or merely cut, sawn or otherwise worked, for monumental or building stone |
| III | Stone used as ordinary construction material or other purposes | |
| 2517.10.00.10 | Pebbles, gravel; broken or crushed stone; other ballast stone | Processed by crushing, grinding or otherwise; size ≤ 400 mm |
| 2517.10.00.90 | Pebbles, gravel; broken or crushed stone; other ballast stone | Processed by crushing, grinding or otherwise; size > 400 mm |
| 2517.49.00.10 | Calcium carbonate powder processed from limestone of heading 2515 | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying; size ≤ 0.125 mm |
| 2517.49.00.20 | Calcium carbonate powder processed from limestone of heading 2515 | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying; size: from > 0.125 mm to 1.0 mm |
| 2517.49.00.30 | Calcium carbonate powder processed from limestone of heading 2515 | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying; size: from > 1.0 mm to 400 mm |
| IV | Other minerals | |
| 2518.10.00 | Dolomite used for producing calcined dolomite or other construction materials | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying MgO content ≥ 18% Particle size ≤ 100 mm |
| 2521.00.00 | Limestone used for producing lime or other construction materials | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying CaCO3 content ≥ 85% Particle size ≤ 100 mm |
| 2507.00.00 | Kaolin used for manufacturing of tiles, sanitary ware or other construction materials | Processed by crushing, grinding, beneficiating, drying, sieving and classifying Al2O3 content ≥ 28%, Fe2O3 ≤ 1% Particle size ≤ 0.2 mm |
| 2507.00.00 | Pyrophyllite kaolin used for manufacturing of tiles, sanitary ware or other construction materials | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying Particle size ≤ 100 mm |
| 2508.30.00 | Refractory clay used for producing refractory materials or other construction materials | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying Al2O3 content ≥ 23% Particle size ≤ 0.2 mm |
| 2529.10.10 | Feldspar used for manufacturing wall/floor tiles, sanitary ware, construction glass or other construction materials | Processed by crushing, grinding, sieving and classifying (K2O+Na2O) content ≥ 7% Particle size ≤ 100 mm |
| Minerals used as construction materials sent abroad for analysis, research, technology testing | Weight and type of minerals suitable for research and testing purposes |
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