Can you bring meat or dairy products to Vietnam?

• Meat & dairy

  depends on specifics

  Fresh or animal-origin products brought in without a veterinary quarantine certificate from the country of export risk confiscation and destruction on arrival.

  Administrative penalties for quarantine-registration and declaration violations run under Decree No. 204/2026/ND-CP (Vietnam's current veterinary administrative-penalty decree), broadly VND 1–50 million depending on the severity of the violation, with mandatory re-quarantine or destruction of the goods as a remedial measure. Found via a search-snippet quote of the decree, not a full direct fetch — treat the exact penalty figures as approximate.

  Also covers: meat, dairy, cheese, milk, pork, beef

  Checked 2026-09-16 — Source: Decree No. 204/2026/ND-CP on administrative penalties in veterinary medicine, via LuatVietnam

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