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HS 8523.49

Vietnam export market report Recorded optical discs

  • Foreign buyers ranked by value, with country and buying frequency
  • Unit price by market, the common P25-P75 range and the season
  • Vietnamese competitors on the same code, share and price segment

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What is HS code 8523.49?

Optical discs recorded with sound, video, software or data, read by laser. Blank discs are in 8523.41.

  • CD
  • DVD
  • music CD
  • software disc

11 eight-digit lines: Discs for laser reading systemsOther

Tariff description and 8-digit lines
Chapter 85
Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
Heading 8523
Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, “smart cards” and other media for the recording of sound or of other phenomena, whether or not recorded, including matrices and masters for the production of discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37
Subheading 8523.49
Optical media: other

Vietnam's import and export nomenclature, Circular 31/2022/TT-BTC.

Vietnam's 8-digit tariff lines (11)

  • 8523.49.11Discs for laser reading systems: of a kind used for reproducing phenomena other than sound or image
  • 8523.49.12Discs for laser reading systems: of a kind used for reproducing sound only: educational, technical, scientific, historical or cultural discs
  • 8523.49.13Discs for laser reading systems: of a kind used for reproducing sound only: other
  • 8523.49.14Discs for laser reading systems: other, of a kind used for reproducing representations of instructions, data, sound and image, recorded in a machine readable binary form, and capable of being manipulated or providing interactivity to a user, by means of an automatic data processing machine; proprietary format storage (recorded) media
  • 8523.49.15Discs for laser reading systems: other, containing cinematographic movies other than newsreels, travelogues, technical, scientific movies, and other documentary movies
  • 8523.49.16Discs for laser reading systems: other, of a kind suitable for cinematography
  • 8523.49.19Discs for laser reading systems: other
  • 8523.49.91Other: of a kind used for reproducing phenomena other than sound or image
  • 8523.49.92Other: of a kind used for reproducing sound only
  • 8523.49.93Other: other, of a kind used for reproducing representations of instructions, data, sound and image, recorded in a machine readable binary form, and capable of being manipulated or providing interactivity to a user, by means of an automatic data processing machine; proprietary format storage (recorded) media
  • 8523.49.99Other: other

A report covers the 6-digit code, every 8-digit line under it included.

Vietnam's electronics, computers and components exports in 2025 were 2.1 times the 2021 level

Value, bn USD; change on the year before

  1. 202150.83
  2. 202255.54+9.3%
  3. 202357.34+3.2%
  4. 202472.58+26.6%
  5. 2025107.75+48.4%
Whole electronics, computers and components sector, not code 8523.49 alone. Source: General Statistics Office of Vietnam; 2025 preliminary, updated 25/03/2026.

Where export decisions go wrong

  • 85%

    of Vietnamese exporters are not ready for the US market

    A good product is not enough: market research, sales channels and buyer knowledge are missing.

  • 77.3%

    name market research as their biggest gap

    Who buys, at what price, how often: unknown before the first quote.

  • 76%

    lack a marketing strategy and sales channels

    New buyers come mostly from fairs and B2B platforms, at high cost and low reply rates.

Source: survey of Vietnamese exporters to the US, VISIA and Ready2US, 09/2026.

The cost of exporting without market data

  • Quotes off the market level: orders lost when high, margin lost when low.
  • Fair and platform budgets spent before knowing which markets buy this code.
  • Buyers already shopping in Vietnam go to competitors who reached them first.
  • Target markets picked from news and hearsay, not from shipment records.
  • Excel files bought from Zalo groups, with no stated period.
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Report HS 8523.49

A product’s whole market in one report. One 6-digit code, export or import, for a period of 1 to 12 months.

19
sections of analysis
PDF + Excel
every shipment line
5,612
6-digit HS codes
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Report overview

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Contents

  1. 01Overview figures
  2. 02Key findings
  3. 03Monthly trend
  4. 04Season and shipping rhythm
  5. 05Price analysis
  6. 06Markets
  7. 07Vietnamese companies
  8. 08Competition
  9. 09Buyers or suppliers
  10. 10Buying frequency
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19 sections · PDF and Excel

Period: 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, your choice

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Which problems does the report solve?

In the report

Partners ranked by value, with their buying cycle and how many Vietnamese companies already supply each one.

#PartnerValue (USD)Buying cycleBuys from
1USABC Trading Inc.
2USXYZ Imports LLC
3JPDEF Co., Ltd.
4USGHI Supply Co.
5CNJKL Trading Co.
6KRMNO Co., Ltd.

01

Find and reach foreign buyers

  • Buyers ranked by valueEvery buyer of the code with country, value and share.
  • Buying frequency and cycleHow often each buyer orders and when it last did.
  • Who they buy fromThe Vietnamese supplier each buyer works with today.
In the report

Unit price by market against the code average, plus the common price band and the peak months.

Unit price by market

United States
Japan
South Korea
China
United Kingdom

Line: the code average

Common price band

P25-P75 shaded

Season by month

Peak month highlighted

02

Price the quote against the market

  • Unit price by marketAverage price each market pays against the code average.
  • Common price rangeP25-P75 and P10-P90 of every priced line.
  • Season by monthMonths of high and low volume, to time the offer.
In the report

Vietnamese companies on the same code ranked by share, with unit price, price segment and market concentration.

#SupplierShareUnit priceSegment, main market
1ABC Co., Ltd.Binh DuongMid price US
2XYZ JSCDong NaiLow price US
3DEF Co., Ltd.Binh DinhMid price CN
4GHI Co., Ltd.Binh DuongMid price US
5JKL JSCHo Chi Minh CityLow price US

Concentration

Fragmented, moderate or concentrated

03

Size up Vietnamese competitors

  • Exporters ranked by valueEvery Vietnamese company on the code, with tax code.
  • Share and price segmentWhere each competitor sits on price and volume.
  • Market concentrationHHI for buyers and for exporters.
In the report

Loading ports, destinations, Incoterms and payment terms, each weighted by value.

Loading ports

Cat Lai, HCMC
Cai Mep, BR-VT
Hai Phong

Destinations

Los Angeles, US
Savannah, US
Long Beach, US

Incoterms and payment

Incoterms

FOBCIF

CFR · EXW

Payment

TTR

L/C · D/P

Product variants

Specification A, standard pack
Specification B, export grade
Specification C, mixed lot

04

Prepare shipping and terms

  • Ports and destinationsLoading ports and where the goods land.
  • Incoterms and paymentThe trade terms and payment methods buyers accept.
  • Product variantsSpecifications actually shipped, with share and price.

Each team uses the report its own way

Management

  • Choose priority markets on shipment value
  • Approve the trade-promotion budget
  • Track competitive position on the code

Export sales

  • A buyer list to contact first
  • A quote price for each market
  • The right moment from each buyer’s cycle
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Planning and production

  • Volume by month to plan capacity
  • Specifications each market buys
  • Ports and terms to plan logistics

Marketing

  • Markets and fairs chosen on real trade value
  • Buyer profiles by country
  • Competitors’ main markets
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Why the VNGlobalTrade report

  • A profile of every partner

    Name, country and address of every buyer; Vietnamese suppliers with their tax ID.

  • Down to every shipment

    The Excel file lists every shipment line: date, unit price, quantity, port, Incoterms.

  • A conclusion for each decision

    19 sections that end in key findings and what they mean: which market pays more, where to set the quote.

Price by report period

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Price by report period

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Related codes

Other codes in heading 8523

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Are buyer and company names included?
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