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goldenbrown wrote:

I'm going to order a new labtop from either dell or hp it will
be delivered from america

Good question.
I randomly selected a Dell G3, midrange gaming laptop, available at ,聽 big computer store in Saigon.
Price: 24,890.000 vnd or US$1068. That is with tax included, you can pick it up today.

At the Dell website, I found this 聽 and has specs that look the same to me.
Price: $775
I don't see where international shipping is available on the Dell US website though, looks like domestic US only.
Let's say you _can_ get it shipped from Dell. Or, you order from a retailer like Newegg that will ship here. (Well not Newegg, they ship to 49 countries but not Vietnam.)
Guess air shipping is $100 for a
And guess you are not paying local US tax (which would be about $70 in Calif).

Then ask, what is the value to me to buy today in Saigon, vs placing an online order that could get messed up, will take at least several days enroute, or may get stuck in customs for awhile. There is also the risk it will be broken and will require return shipping. What is that convenience value? $100?

Then hope that customs would charge no more that $100 duty on your electronics item. Otherwise a local purchase would have been better.
Curious to know your experience was, please post back!

Andy Passenger wrote:

Use this link:


It's not so easy to find the right item in the data base.
It could help if you know the right HS Code for the desired item.

The
"Questions and Answers" ... looks like that, which I mean. This time, I gonna safe that link

great result

Andy Passenger wrote:

Use this link:


It's not so easy to find the right item in the data base.
It could help if you know the right HS Code for the desired item.

Ok a breakthrough! A 'like' for Andy.
Continuing with my example, I entered "laptop" on that customs page.
Looks like HS code 84713020
Clicking that link, a page with duty percentages.
I don't know. Two lines have Vietnam, Vietnam-Chile, Vietnam-Japan.

Anyway, two different tariffs: 0% and 1%.
So worst case is 1% tariff, or $8 for a $775 laptop.

Feeling skeptical about this answer.
We need the schedule for Vietnam-US, not just Asean.
For 1%, we would be hearing about people pulling in containers of computers from Amazon.聽

gobot wrote:

Andy Passenger wrote:

Use this link:


It's not so easy to find the right item in the data base.
It could help if you know the right HS Code for the desired item.

Ok a breakthrough! A 'like' for Andy.
Continuing with my example, I entered "laptop" on that customs page.
Looks like HS code 84713020
Clicking that link, a page with duty percentages.
I don't know. Two lines have Vietnam, Vietnam-Chile, Vietnam-Japan.

Anyway, two different tariffs: 0% and 1%.
So worst case is 1% tariff, or $8 for a $775 laptop.

Feeling skeptical about this answer.
We need the schedule for Vietnam-US, not just Asean.
For 1%, we would be hearing about people pulling in containers of computers from Amazon.聽

When I enter 84713020 then I get the search result:
Favour聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/01/2018聽 聽 125/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
FTAs:聽 聽聽
ASEAN聽 (ATIGA) 聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/01/2018聽 聽 156/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
ASEAN - China聽 (ACFTA) 聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/01/2018聽 聽 153/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
ASEAN - Korea聽 (AKFTA) 聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/01/2018聽 聽 157/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
ASEAN - Japan聽 (AJCEP) 聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/04/2018聽 聽 160/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
Vietnam - Japan聽 (VJEPA) 聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/04/2018聽 聽 155/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
ASEAN - Australia - New Zealand聽 (AANZFTA) 聽 聽 0聽 聽 01/01/2018聽 聽 158/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
ASEAN - India聽 (AIFTA) 聽 聽 3聽 聽 01/01/2018聽 聽 159/2017/N膼-CP聽 聽 View
Vietnam - Chile聽 (VCFTA)

The FTA lists the countries with which Vietnam has a free trade agreement.
And I have assumed that "Favour" means all other countries.

I have already ordered goods from Japan and Taiwan.
All have been shipped with DHL.
The HS codes are also listed in the customs declaration from the Vietnamese customs.
After I received the goods, I compared everything with these HS codes in the customs tariff database (link I already posted) and it all matched.
The Japanese goods under FTA Japan and the Taiwanese goods under "Favour".

The laptop is displayed under "Favour" with 0% tax.
As far as I know you can also import a laptop tax-free in Malaysia.

By the way, for most articles you still have to pay 10% VAT (this can also be seen in the customs declaration).

d.borough wrote:

...... Has anyone ever heard of anyone querying their tax decisions? Is there even any way to contact them?

Thanks to any responses.

Yes, you can try out their forum. links are inside the above posts