Goods that are not labeled

Lawyer Ho Thu Trang, YouMe Law Company Limited answers:

Article 35 of Decree No. 37/2026/ND-CP detailing a number of articles and measures to organize and guide the implementation of the Law on Product and Goods Quality (effective from January 23, 2026) stipulates the scope of application and exclusion of goods labeling as follows:

1. Regulations on content, recording methods and state management of labels for goods circulating in Vietnam, exported and imported goods.

2. The following types of goods are not subject to goods labeling according to the provisions of this Decree:

a) Real estate;

b) Temporary import for re-export goods; transit goods, transshipped goods; transit goods; imported goods sent to bonded warehouses for export to third countries;

c) Luggage of people entering and leaving the country; moving assets;

d) Goods brought with people entering for personal consumption, gifts, and gifts within the import tax exemption quota; imported goods subject to diplomatic preferences and exemptions under international treaties to which Vietnam is a member;

e) Goods confiscated for auction;

e) Goods that are fresh, raw, processed food without packaging and sold directly to consumers;

g) Goods that are fuel, raw materials (agricultural products, seafood, minerals), scrap (in production, business), building materials without packaging and sold directly to consumers;

h) Used goods;

i) Goods that are radioactive substances, electricity, goods used in emergency situations to overcome natural disasters and epidemics; railway, waterway, and airway vehicles.

3. Goods are loose form, liquid, gas, without merchandise packaging in cargo boxes, cargo holds, tankers that do not need to label goods but must have dossiers and accompanying documents fully showing the mandatory contents in Vietnamese according to the provisions of this Decree and relevant legal regulations to replace the goods label.

In case the accompanying documents are in a language other than Vietnamese, there must be a Vietnamese translation attached.

4. In case specialized laws, international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member have regulations different from the provisions of this Decree, the provisions of that specialized law, international treaty shall be applied.

Thus, from January 23, 2026, goods that do not need to be labeled include groups of goods according to the above regulations.