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The United States Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Advance Ruling program is intended to provide the international trade community with a transparent and efficient means of understanding how CBP will treat a particular import once it arrives in the United States. This event will provide an introduction to the Advance Rulings process and also explain how VCCI and AmCham will help firms in Vietnam request an Advance Ruling.

What is an Advance Ruling? A U.S. CBP Advance Ruling is a written decision in the form of a letter issued by the CBP Office of Regulations and Rulings pursuant to 19 CFR Part 177 that tells the requester how CBP will treat a good or conveyance when it is imported into or arrives in the United States. In other words, the ruling letter may discuss the appropriate tariff classification, country of origin marking of the good, the country of origin for purposes of determining the duty rate of a good, etc. In order to distinguish rulings from the other types of decisions CBP issues, we often refer to these as prospective rulings. The purpose of a prospective ruling letter is to enable the trade to make business decisions that are dependent on how their goods will be treated on importation. Once issued, a prospective ruling is something on which you as a member of the trade can rely and depend on wherever your goods are imported in the United States. It is an important trade facilitation measure. In fact, the United States, together with a number of its trading partners, has proposed that all World Trade Organization (WTO) members commit to issuing advance rulings.

Learn all about U.S. and Vietnamese Advance Rulings at this workshop.

Vietnam is just beginning to establish an Advance Rulings system, one of the commitments in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. In addition to expediting customs clearance, the legally binding advance rulings can provide you with certainty in the “Post-Clearance Audit” process. HCMC Customs Department Officials will explain the procedures, assisted by Nestor Scherbey, a licensed U.S. CustomsHouse Broker.

Agenda

08:00 – 08:30	Registration of Participants
08:30 – 08:45	Welcome Remarks by
	VCCI Representative
	AmCham Representative
	HCMC Customs Representative
8:45- 9:00	Prologue: U.S. Trade Policy re China: Background, status, outlook
	USG Representative (U.S. CBP Attaché or Economic Officer)
09:00 – 09:30	Session 1: Vietnam’s Advance Ruling System
09:00 – 09:10	Vietnam’s  Advance Rulings by HCMC Customs Representative
09:10 – 09:20	AmCham Representative Recommendations for improvement
09:20 – 09:30	Q&A – Discussion (Nestor and HCMC Customs Representative)
09:30 – 10:30	Session 2 VCCI Certificates of Origin for Exports System
09:30 – 09:45	VCCI Representative re C/O
09:45 – 10:00	Q&A, Discussion
10:00 – 10:15	Nestor Scherbey: “Made in Vietnam – is it Really?”
	Avoid civil or chriminal penalties from “false declaration of origin”
10:15 – 10:30	Q&A, Discussion (Nestor)
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 – 11:15	Session 3 VCCI’s NEW “AR (Advance Ruling) Service”
	How to obtain U.S. CBP Advance Rulings re classification, origin, valuation
10:45 – 11:00	VCCI Representative
11:00 – 11:15	Q&A, Discussion (Nestor, VCCI Representative)
11:15 – 11:25	PostLog
11:15 – 11:25	WTO TFA Benefits for Vietnam in General, Customs Bond Pilot Project
	Nestor Scherbey, Senior Trade Advisor, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation
11:25 – 11:40	Closing Remarks
	HCMC Customs Representative
	AmCham Representative
	VCCI-HCMC Representative
11:40	Event Ends

Cost

VND 200,000 / person

Sponsorship Opportunities

Gold Sponsor – VND 15,000,000

• 10 complimentary tickets
• Company Logo on backdrop and on website for the event as a Gold Sponsor
• Company will receive a full list of participants and photo link after the event
• 3 months Networking Online (advertising) on AmCham website

Silver Sponsor – VND 10,000,000

• 8 complimentary tickets
• Company Logo on backdrop and on website for the event as a Silver Sponsor
• Company will receive a full list of participants and photo link after the event
• 2 months Networking Online (advertising) on AmCham website

Bronze Sponsor – VND 5,000,000

• 6 complimentary tickets
• Company Logo on backdrop and on website for the event as a Bronze Sponsor

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