MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY

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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

Independence - Freedom Happiness
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No.: 01/2006/TT-BCN

Hanoi, April 11, 2006

CIRCULAR
GUIDING MANAGEMENT OF EXPORT AND IMPORT OF TOXIC CHEMICALS AND PRODUCTS
WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS, PRE-SUBSTANCE OF DRUGS AND CHEMICALS ACCORDING TO
TECHNICAL STANDARDS SUBJECT TO SPECIALIZED MANAGEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF
INDUSTRY
Pursuant to the Decree No.55/2003/ND-CP of May 28, 2003 of the Government regulating
functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of Ministry of Industry;
Pursuant to the Decree No.12/2006/ND-CP dated January 23, 2006 of the Government detailing
the implementation of the Commercial Law regarding international purchase and sale of goods and
activities of purchase and sale agents, processing and transit of goods with foreign parties;
Pursuant to the Decree No.100/2005/ND-CP dated August 03, 2005 of the Government on
implementation of the Convention on prohibition of the development of production, storage, use
and destruction of chemical weapons;
Pursuant to the Decree No.68/2005/ND-CP of May 20, 2005 of the Government on Chemical
Safety;
Pursuant to the Law on Prevention and Fighting against Drugs and its guiding documents;
The Ministry of Industry guides the management of export and import of chemicals of Table 1
under the Convention on the Prohibition of development of production, storage, use and
destruction of chemical weapons; toxic chemicals and products with toxic chemicals, presubstance of drugs and chemicals imported according to technical standards subject to specialized
management of the Ministry of Industry as follows:
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. The export and import of chemicals of Table 1 of the Convention on the Prohibition of
development of production, storage, use and destruction of chemical weapons in the special cases
for the purpose of research, health, pharmaceutical products or security protection, shall comply
with the Decree No.100/2005/ND-CP of August 03, 2005 by the Government on implementation of
the Convention and the Decision No.05/2006/QD-BCN dated April 07, 2006 of the Ministry of
Industry.
2. Goods that are hazardous chemicals, products with hazardous chemicals in transit, temporarily
imported for re-export shall comply with the provisions of the Trade Ministry.
3. The assurance of safety for export, import of chemicals of Table 1 under the Convention on the
Prohibition of development of production, storage, use and destruction of chemical weapons; toxic
chemicals and products with toxic chemicals, pre-substance of drugs and chemicals imported
according to technical standards subject to specialized management of the Ministry of Industry
shall comply with the provisions of the Decree No.68/2005/ND-CP of May 20, 2005 by the
Government on Safety for chemicals.
4. Exporters, importers are responsible for the accuracy of the data declared upon export, import;
management and use of imported chemicals for the right purposes and under the relevant
regulations; if committing acts of violations, they will be handled according to law provisions.
II. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
1. Traders who have certificates of business registration and registration for importer and exporter
code at the Customs Departments of provinces and cities directly under the Central Government,
are allowed to export and import chemicals for direct service for production, research and business
by the needs and the ability to do business (other than chemicals as precursor substances used in
industrial sector in Appendix 1).
The export and import of chemicals as precursor substances used in the industrial sector under
Appendix 1 shall comply with the Law on Prevention and Anti-Drugs dated December 09, 2000;

Management Regulation of Pre-substances used in the industrial sector issued together with the
Decision No.134/2003/QD-BCN dated August 25, 2003 and No.04/2004/QD-BCN dated January
07, 2004 of Ministry of Industry and the provisions of this Circular.
2. The export and import of chemicals of Table 2 and chemicals of Table 3 of Appendix 2 shall
comply with the Decree No.100/2005/ND-CP dated August 03, 2005 by the Government on
implementation of the Convention on prohibition of production development, storage, use and
destruction of chemical weapons and the provisions of this Circular.
3. Traders who import hazardous chemicals and products containing toxic chemicals on the list of
conditional imports of Appendix 3 to do business, are required to have certificates of eligibility for
environmental protection in the chemical business issued by the Departments of Natural
Resources and Environment of provinces and cities under central authority under the provisions of
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
4. When importing chemicals listed in Appendix 4 of this Circular, the traders must fully declare the
standards of quality and corresponding technical standards for the customs offices to check and
compare. Where there are questions on the false standards of quality and technical standards,
customs offices decide to request expertise, customs clearance under the current regulations. The
import of the chemicals in direct service for production with lower standards prescribed in this
Appendix is required to be agreed in writing by the Ministry of Industry.
III. IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
This Circular takes effect from May 01, 2006. The previous regulations on management guidance
of export, import of toxic chemicals; toxic chemicals and products containing toxic chemicals,
precursor substance of drugs; chemicals imported under the technical standards under the
specialized management of the Ministry of Industry contrary to this Circular are hereby annulled.
During the execution, if any difficulties and obstacles arise, the branches, the localities, units report
to the Ministry of Industry for timely amending and supplementing accordingly./.
FOR MINISTER
DEPUTY MINISTER

Nguyen Xuan Thuy

APPENDIX 1
LIST PRE-SUBSTANCES USED IN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR
(Issued together with the Circular No.: 01/2006/TT-BCN dated April 11, 2006 of the Ministry of
Industry)
No.

Names of chemicals

Molecular formula

Acetic anhydride

(CH3CO)2O

Acetone

CH3COCH3

Anthranilic acid

Diethyl ether

Hydrochloric acid

Methyl ethyl ketone

C4H8O

Phenylacetic acid

C8H8O2

Piperidine

C5H11N

Potassium permanganate

KMnO4

10

Sulphuric acid

H2SO4

NH2C6H4COOH
(C2H5)2O
HCl

11

Toluene

C6H5CH3

12

Methylamine

CH3NH2

13

Nitroethane

CH3CH2NO2

14

Tartaric acid

HO2CCH(OH)CH(OH)CO2H

15

Formic acid

HCOOH

16

Formamide

HCONH2

17

Ethylene diacetate

18

Diethylamine

19

Benzyl cyanide

C6H5CH2CN

20

Benzaldehyde

C6H5CHO

21

Ammonium formate

HCO2NH4

22

Acetic acid

CH3COOH

CH3CO2CH2CH2O2CCH3
(C2H5)2NH

APPENDIX 2
(Issued together with the Circular No.: 01/2006/TT-BCN dated April 11, 2006 of the Ministry of
Industry)
Chemicals of Table 2 (of the Convention on the Prohibition of production development, storage,
use and destruction of chemical weapons)
No.

Names of chemicals

CAS
registration
Number

HS
code

Toxic chemicals

Amiton: O, O Diethyl S [2 (diethylamino) ethyl]

phosphorothiolate and corresponding alkylated or protonated
salts

78-53-5

2930.90

PFIB: 1,1,3,3,3-Pentafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)-1-propene

382-21-8

2903.30

BZ: 3- Quinuclidinyl benzilate (*)

6581-06-2

2933.90

Pre-substances

Chemicals except for chemicals listed in Table 1 containing a

phosphorus atom linked to a group of methyl, ethyl or propyl
(nocmal or iso) rather than the other carbon atom
For example. Methylphosphonyl dichloride
dimethyl methylphosphonate
Exception: O ethyl S-phenyl ethylphosphonothiolothionate

676-97-1
756-79-6
944-22-9
2931.00

N,N-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphoramidic dihalides

Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) N, N-dialkyl

2929.90

(Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-phosphoramidates

2929.90

Arsenic trichloride

7784-34-1

2812.10

2,2-diphenyl-2-hydroxyacetic acid

76-93-7

2918.19

Quinuclidin-3-ol

10

N, N dialkyl (Me, Et, n Pr or i Pr) aminoethyl-2- chloride

and corresponding protonated salts

11

1619-34-7

N, N dialkyl (Me, Et, n Pr or i Pr) aminoethane-2-ol

and corresponding protonated salts
Exception: N, N dimethylaminoethanol
and corresponding protonated salts
N, N diethylaminoethanol
and corresponding protonated salts

2933.39
2921.19
2922.19

108-01-0
100-37-8

12

N,N-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethane-2-thiols

and corresponding protonated salts

2930.90

13

Thiodiglycol: Bis(2-hydroxyethyl) sulfide

111-48-8

2930.90

14

Pinacolyl alcohol: 3,3-Dimethylbutan-2-ol

464-07-3

2905.14

Chemicals of Table 3 (of the Convention on the Prohibition of production development, storage,
use and destruction of chemical weapons)
No.

Names of chemicals

CAS
registration
Number

HS code

Toxic chemicals

Phosgene: Carbonyl dichloride

75-44-5

2812.10

Cyanogen chloride

506-77-4

2851.00

Hydrogen cyanide

74-90-8

2811.19

Chloropicrin: Trichloronitromethane

76-06-2

2904.90

Pre-substances

Phosphorus oxychloride

10025-87-3

2812.10

Phosphorus trichloride

7719-12-2

2812.10

Phosphorus pentachloride

10026-13-8

2812.10

Trimethyl phosphite

121-45-9

2920.90

Triethyl phosphite

122-52-1

2920.90

10

Dimethyl phosphite

868-85-9

2921.19

11

Diethyl phosphite

762-04-9

2920.90

12

Sulfur monochloride

10025-67-9

2812.10

13

Sulfur dichloride

10545-99-0

2812.10

14

Thionyl chloride

7719-09-7

2812.10

15

Ethyldiethanolamine

139-87-7

2922.19

16

Methyldiethanolamine

105-59-9

2922.19

17

Triethanolamine

102-71-6

2922.13

APPENDIX 3
THE LIST OF TOXIC CHEMICALS AND THEIRS PRODUCTS
(Issued together with the Circular No.: 01/2006/TT-BCN dated April 11, 2006 of the Ministry of
Industry)
No.

Names of chemicals

Molecular formula

Acetonitril

CH3CN

Pechloric Acid

HClO4

Acrolein

Arsenide hydro

Aldehydes acetic

Asbestos materials

Ammonia; ammonium hydroxide

NH3; NH4OH

Anhydride arsenic (arsenic trioxid and arsenic pentoxid)

As2O3, As2O5

Aniline

10

Antimony

Sb

11

Nitric acid

HNO3

12

Phosphoric acid

H3PO4

13

Picric acid

14

Barium and soluble compounds of barium

15

Barium oxide contains 10% SiO2 free

BaO

16

Benzene

C6H6

17

Benzidin

C12H12N2

18

Bichromat potassium

K2Cr2O7

19

Brom

20

Bromoform

CHBr3

21

Bromo - methane Bromo - methan

CH3Br

22
23

The original sodium cyanide (CN), except for cyanogen

chloride
Calcium chloride

CaCl2

24

Carbon tetrachloride

CCl4

25

Cadmium and its compounds

26

carbon oxide

27

Lead and inorganic compounds of lead

28

Chloroform

29

Chlor

30

Chlorobenzene

C6H5Cl

31

1- Chloronaphthalene

C10H7Cl

CH2=CHCHO
AsH3
CH3CHO

C6H5NH2

C6H3O7N3
Ba; Soluble compounds

Br

CO

CHCl3
Cl2

32

0-[2-chloro-1-(2,5-dichlorophenyl)-vinyl]-0-0- diethyl
phosphorothioate

33

Mercury Chloride

HgCl 2

34

Chloroprene

C4H5Cl

35

Copper Chloride I v ng II

36

Dichlorobenzene

37

Carbon dioxide

38

Dimethylamin

39

N,N - dimethylformamide

40

Dinitrobenzene

41

Dinitrochlorbenzene

42

Dinitrotoluen

43

Chlorine dioxide

44

Ethylene oxide

(CH2)2O

45

Ethyl chloride

C2H5Cl

46

Ethylene glycol

47

Ethyl mercuric phosphate

47

Fluorosilicat soluble and insoluble metal

49

Fluorine hydride

50

Formaldehyde

51

Furfurol

52

Mixtures of tetra and pentan aphtalin of high level

53

Hydrazine and its derivatives

54

Isopropalin

55

Isopropyl nitrate

56

Fluoride mixed iron oxide and compounds of manganese

FeO, Fe2O3

57

Metaldehyde

(CH3CHO)n

58

Methyl alcohol

59

Fluorhydric acid salts

60

n - Hexane

61

n-Butanol

C4H9OH

62

Nicotine

C10H14N2

63

Nitrobenzene

C6H5NO2

64

2-Nitro-1-hydroxybenzen-4-arsonic acid

65

Nitrogen dioxide

66

Nitrotoluen

67

Nitrid metal

CuCl ; CuCl2
C6H4Cl2
CO2
(CH3)2NH
HCON(CH3)2
C6H4(NO2)2
C6H3(NO2)2Cl
CH3C6H3(NO2)2
ClO2

CH2OH-CH2OH

HF
HCHO
C4H3OCHO

H2NNH2
C15H23N3O4
C3H7NO3

CH3OH

C6H14

NO2
CH3C6H4NO2

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nickel oxide

NiO

69

Chromium oxide

CrO3

70

Oxynitrogen (NOx)

71

Ozone

72

Paranitrophenyl

73

PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) and PCB-containing

compounds

74

Parathion

75

Phenol

76

Phosphor

77

Phosphin

PH3

78

Phosphor metal

79

Pyridine

80

Selenium and its compounds

Se

81

Sulfur carbon

SC2

82

Lead sulfide

PbS

83

Hydrogen sulfide

H2S

84

Talium

85

Tetranitromethane

C(NO2)4

86

Tetrachloroheptane

C7H12Cl4

87

Tetraethyl thiuram disulfide

(C2H5)4N2S4

88

Tetraethyl lead

89

Mercury

90

Mercury compounds

91

Trichlorobenzene

C6H3Cl3

92

Trichloroethylene

CHCl -CCl2

93

Trinitrobenzene

C6H3(NO2)3

94

Trinitro compounds

95

Xylene

N2O, NO, NO2, N2O3, N2O5

O3
C6H4(NO2)2

(C2H5O)2PSO-C6H4NO2
C6H5OH

C5H5N

Tl

Pb(C2H5)4
Hg

C6H4(CH3)2

APPENDIX 4
THE LIST AND TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR IMPORTED CHEMICALS
(Issued together with the Circular No.: 01/2006/TT-BCN dated April 11, 2006 of the Ministry of
Industry)
No.
1

Named of chemicals
Sodium hydroxide (liquid)
(NaOH)

Standards of quality, content

(%)

Technical
standards

TCVN 3793-83
NaOH

> 31%

NaCl
2

hydrochloric acid
(HCl)

Technical sulfuric acid

(H2SO4)

2807.00.00
Pure sulfuric acid (H2SO4)

TCVN 1556-86 & 52-99

HCl

> 32%

Fe

< 0.01%

Cl2 free

< 0.015%

SO4

< 0.03%

As

0.0001% Max

TCVN 5719-92
H2SO4

> 97%

Fe

0.010 Max

Content of residue after heating

0.020 Max

TCVN 138-64
H2SO4
+

Technical phosphoric acid

(H3PO4)

Single alum from aluminum

hydroxide

0.004% Max

> 97.2%

Cl

0.00002% Max

NH4

0.0002% Max

TCN 101-1997
H3PO4

> 85%

Fe

0.002% Max

As

0.008% Max

64 TCN 45-88
Fe2O3

0.015% Max

Free acid

0.1% Max