Our country’s footwear exports are growing very strongly, our country’s footwear export turnover has increased by 14.8%, the highest among the top 10 exporting countries despite the growth rate of footwear exports. Global growth has slowed down to only 0.6% per year.
Documents that need to be prepared to export shoes and sandals include:
- Commercial Invoice (Commercial Invoice)
- Packing List (Goods packing slip)
- Sales contract (Commercial contract)
- Bill of lading (Sea bill of lading)
- Certificate of original (C/O form E, C/O form AK, C/O form D,…
HS code of shoes and sandals
Determining the detailed HS code of an item must be based on the nature, composition, etc. of the actual exported goods. According to current regulations, the basis for applying HS codes is on actual exported goods at the time of export, based on catalogs, technical documents (if any) or/and inspection at the Customs Inspection Department. . The actual inspection results of customs and the results of the Customs Inspection Department determine the legal basis for applying codes to exported goods.
You can refer to some HS codes as follows:
6401: Waterproof shoes and sandals with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastic, uppers not attached or assembled to the sole by sewing, riveting, screwing, plugging or similar means.
6402: Other shoes and sandals with outer soles and uppers made of rubber or plastic…
Some notes when exporting shoes and sandals
For genuine leather shoes and sandals, it is necessary to determine what animal leather it is and whether it belongs to the CITIES 2017 list of wildlife species or not? If it belongs to the Cities category, it will be difficult to export to the country you want to import, especially it may be subject to goods banned from import by the other country.
For processed goods, it is necessary to declare the processing contract to customs.
Customs procedures for importing footwear are carried out like other normal goods.
For processed goods, a processing contract needs to be added to declare to customs.
