The import of second-hand information technology (IT) products will be prohibited from December 15.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has issued Circular No 31/2015/TT-BTTTT, stipulating the ban for products such as laptops, tablets and mobile phones, along with speakers, flash disk drives, as well as liquid-crystal display and light emitting diode screens, digital cameras.

The ban will also apply to used components and accessories of these products.

Customers shop for second-hand mobile phones at a shop in Ha Noi

The circular provides guidelines for the implementation of Decree No 187/2013/ND-CP, which was issued in November 2013 on enforcing the law of commerce with regard to the international trade of goods.

It replaces Circular No 11/2012/TT-BTTTT.

(Source: VNA)