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Telephone sets – Vietnam

Official title

Draft National technical regulation on electromagnetic compatibility for mobile terminals and ancillary equipment of digital cellular telecommunication systems

Vietnam notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 14 October 2025. The comment period closed on 13 December 2025.

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At a glance

Products

Mobile terminals and ancillary equipment of digital cellular telecommunication systems. HS: 8517.13.00; 8517.14.00; 8517.62.59

HS codes
  • 85 · Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, parts and accessories of such articles
    • 851713 Smartphones for wireless networks
    • 851714 Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks (excl. line telephone sets with cordless handsets, and smartphones)
    • 851762 Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, incl. switching and routing apparatus (excl. telephone…
Notifying member
Vietnam(Viet Nam)
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 14 October 2025. Check WTO ePing or Vietnam for its current status.
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
  • Quality requirements
  • Other
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/VNM/368

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 13 December 2025
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The comment period closed on 13 December 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/VNM/368; it can take them up with Vietnam.

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What the notification says

This draft National technical regulation (NTR) will replace the current NTR namely 'QCVN 86:2019/BTTTT: National technical regulation on electromagnetic compatibility for terminal and ancillary equipment of digital cellular telecommunication systems' This draft NTR stipulates the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements for mobile terminals and ancillary equipment of digital cellular telecommunication systems (GSM, UTRA, E-UTRA, LTE, 5G NR). This draft NTR shall apply only to public terrestrial mobile information terminals listed in the List of products and goods that are potentially unsafe and under the management responsibility of the Ministry of Science and Technology. It applies to organizations and individuals involved in the production, assembly, import, and trading of mobile terminals and ancillary equipment of digital cellular telecommunication systems in Vietnam. The HS code for mobile terminals and ancillary equipment of digital cellular telecommunication systems are 8517.13.00; 8517.14.00; 8517.62.59 (Annex C), as prescribed in Circular No. 31/2022/TT-BTC dated June 8, 2022 of the Minister of Finance promulgating the List of Vietnam's export and import goods. Other technical specifications related to antenna ports and emissions from the housing ports of radio equipment, which are not covered by this draft NTR, shall be specified in the relevant NTR and product standards for effective use of radio frequency spectrum.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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