Appendix II — Preferential import tariff

Attached to Decree No. 26/2023/ND-CP

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Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Photographic negatives or positives on film (Chapter 37);

(b) Maps, plans or globes, in relief, whether or not printed (heading 90.23);

(c) Playing cards or other goods of Chapter 95; or

(d) Original engravings, prints and lithographs (heading 97.02), postage or revenue stamps, stamp-postmarks, first-day covers, postal stationery or the like of heading 97.04, antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years or other articles of Chapter 97.

2. For the purposes of Chapter 49, the term "printed" also means reproduced by means of a duplicating machine, produced under the control of an automatic data processing machine, embossed, photographed, photocopied, thermocopied or typewritten.

3. Newspapers, journals and periodicals which are bound otherwise than in paper, and sets of newspapers, journals or periodicals comprising more than one number under a single cover are to be classified in heading 49.01, whether or not containing advertising material.

4. Heading 49.01 also covers:

(a) A collection of printed reproductions, for example, of works of art or drawings, with a relevant text, put up with numbered pages in a form suitable for binding into one or more volumes;

(b) A pictorial supplement accompanying, and subsidiary to, a bound volume; and

(c) Printed parts of books or booklets, in the form of assembled or separate sheets or signatures, constituting the whole or a part of a complete work and designed for binding.

However, printed pictures or illustrations not bearing a text, whether in the form of signatures or separate sheets, are to be classified in heading 49.11.

5. Subject to Note 3 to this Chapter, heading 49.01 does not cover publications which are essentially devoted to advertising (for example, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, yearbooks published by trade associations, tourist propaganda). Such publications are to be classified in heading 49.11.

6. For the purposes of heading 49.03, the expression "children's picture books" means books for children in which the pictures form the principal interest and the text is subsidiary.

(*): For the purposes of heading 49.07, the term "legal tender" means an instrument of payment issued by a bank recognised as such by law

Chapter 49 — Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

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Commodity codeDescription of goodsDuty rate (%)
49.01Printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, whether or not in single sheets
4901.10.00- In single sheets, whether or not folded0
- Other:
4901.91.00- - Dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and serial instalments thereof0
4901.99- - Other:
4901.99.10- - - Educational, technical, scientific, historical or cultural books0
4901.99.90- - - Other5
49.02Newspapers, journals and periodicals, whether or not illustrated or containing advertising material
4902.10.00- Appearing at least four times a week0
4902.90- Other:
4902.90.10- - Educational, technical, scientific, historical or cultural journals and periodicals0
4902.90.90- - Other0
4903.00.00Children’s picture, drawing or colouring books0
4904.00.00Music, printed or in manuscript, whether or not bound or illustrated5
49.05Maps and hydrographic or similar charts of all kinds, including atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and globes, printed
4905.20.00- In book form0
4905.90.00- Other0
4906.00.00Plans and drawings for architectural, engineering, industrial, commercial, topographical or similar purposes, being originals drawn by hand; hand-written texts; photographic reproductions on sensitised paper and carbon copies of the foregoing0
49.07Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title
4907.00.10- Banknotes, being legal tender0
- Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps:
4907.00.21- - Postage stamps20
4907.00.29- - Other0
4907.00.50- Cheque forms0
4907.00.60- Stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title0
4907.00.90- Other20
49.08Transfers (decalcomanias)
4908.10.00- Transfers (decalcomanias), vitrifiable5
4908.90.00- Other15
4909.00.00Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards bearing personal greetings, messages or announcements, whether or not illustrated, with or without envelopes or trimmings20
4910.00.00Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar blocks20
49.11Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs
4911.10- Trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like:
4911.10.10- - Catalogues listing only educational, technical, scientific, historical or cultural books and publications20
4911.10.90- - Other20
- Other:
4911.91- - Pictures, designs and photographs:
4911.91.10- - - Designs10
- - - Other, of a kind to be mounted for instructional purposes:
4911.91.21- - - - Anatomical and botanical10
4911.91.29- - - - Other20
- - - Other:
4911.91.91- - - - Anatomical and botanical10
4911.91.99- - - - Other20
4911.99- - Other:
4911.99.10- - - Printed cards for jewellery or for small objects of personal adornment or articles of personal use normally carried in the pocket, handbag or on the person20
4911.99.20- - - Printed labels for explosives other than those of heading 48.2120
4911.99.30- - - Educational, technical, scientific, historical or cultural material printed on a set of cards20
4911.99.40- - - Printed matter which grants the right to access, install, reproduce or otherwise use software (including games), data, internet content (including in-game or in-application content) or services, or telecommunications services (including mobile services)20
4911.99.90- - - Other20

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