Vietnam: Amended preferential import tax rates
Decree 73/2025/ND-CP modifies the tax rates concerning export tariff, preferential import tariff, and goods subject to various tax rates
The government issued Decree 73/2025/ND-CP (dated March 31, 2025) amending and supplementing preferential import tax rates for various items in the preferential import tariff. This decree modifies the tax rates concerning the export tariff, preferential import tariff, and the list of goods subject to various tax rates.
The decree specifically reduces the preferential import tax rate for automobiles with HS codes 8703.23.63 and 8703.23.57 from 64% to 50%, and for automobiles with HS code 8703.24.51 from 45% to 32%. The preferential import tax rate for ethanol products is reduced from 10% to 5%.
Further reductions include frozen chicken thighs, unshelled pistachios, almonds, fresh apples, sweet cherries, raisins, corn kernels, soybean meal, wood and wood products, and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Additionally, ethylene products with HS code 2711.19.00 are added to chapter 98 with a preferential import tax rate of 0%.
The decree took effect immediately upon signing and promulgation on March 31, 2025.
Read an April 2025 report prepared by the KPMG member firm in Vietnam