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Circular 18/2024/TT-BCT does not ban scrap imports outright — it suspends three specific trade modes: temporary import (tạm nhập), re-export (tái xuất), and transit (chuyển khẩu). Those modes let a trader bring goods into Vietnam's customs territory without them being consumed domestically, then move them onward — historically a route used to reroute scrap shipments around other countries' import controls or dispose of low-grade/contaminated scrap that wouldn't clear as a genuine domestic-use import. The covered material list is defined by cross-reference to the Vietnam Export-Import Commodity List (Circular 31/2022/TT-BTC, Ministry of Finance) rather than enumerated in the circular itself; GTA records the intervention as covering 114 products across 11 sectors, gated behind its subscription database at filing time — the exact HS-code list is not independently confirmed here and target_materials is left empty accordingly rather than guessed.
The five-year window (2025-2029) and framing (anti-fraud, environmental, anti-dumping-ground) mark this as a customs-integrity measure rather than a resource-nationalism or supply-chain-leverage action, which is why severity is set low (2) despite the long duration and Red GTA rating.
Vietnam; traders relying on tạm nhập-tái xuất routing for scrap need alternative ports.
unaffected, limiting the measure's reach.
worth re-confirming against the Circular 31/2022/TT-BTC-linked appendix if a specific tracked material (e.g., copper, steel) needs to be added to target_materials.