Penalty for importing Lamborghini Huracan cars that do not meet emission standards

The General Department of Customs guides the Da Nang Customs Department with the handling plan for car shipments as gifts and re-exports.

On March 14, 2022, the General Department of Customs sent a document to the Da Nang Customs Department, instructing how to handle shipments of cars imported as gifts and re-exported.

Vehicles imported to Vietnam as gifts, if they do not meet emission standards at level 5, the importing unit will be administratively sanctioned. Illustration

Specifically, according to the Government’s regulations on the roadmap for applying emission standards, from January 1, 2022, new imported cars must apply emission standards at level 5.

“In case it is determined that the imported car shipments do not meet the prescribed emission standards, the customs authority shall base on Decree 128/2020 (Clause 1, Clause 3, Article 18) to consider handling violations of the regulations. official authority”, quoted Document No. 830/TCHQ-PC.

Previously, on December 27, 2021, Da Nang Port Customs Branch issued a notice to find owners of backlogged goods at Tien Sa port (Da Nang).

In the backlog, there is a Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4 Spyder supercar that is transported by SITC Shenzen ship (belonging to SITC shipping lines).

The date the ship docked at Tien Sa port and unloaded in a container is July 22, 2021.

According to the notice, the consignor is a company in Hong Kong, the party receiving the notice is a trading company based in Viet Yen district (Bac Giang province).

According to regulations, the time limit to receive goods is 60 days from the date the customs issues the notice (from December 27, 2021).

On January 11, 2022, a representative of the Customs Department of Ho Chi Minh City. Da Nang said, the owner is super Lamborghini car The abandoned Huracan LP610-4 Spyder came to work, declaring that this was a car imported from abroad as a gift.

At the meeting, the customs office announced the tax rate that the goods owner must pay in order for the vehicle to be cleared.

However, for the reason that there is no money to pay taxes, the receiver of the car proposed to carry out the procedures to re-export the aforementioned supercar to Hong Kong.

Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4 Spyder version is a rare supercar with a list price of about 270,000 USD in foreign markets.