| GOVERMENT |
SOCIAL REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness |
| Number: 31 / 2021 / ND-CP | Hanoi, date 26 month 3 year 2021 |
APPENDIX I
LIST OF INDUSTRIES AND PROFESSIONS WITH RESTRICTED MARKET ACCESS FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS
(Attached to Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP dated June 26, 2021 of the Government)
A. SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES THAT ARE NOT YET ACCESSIBLE TO FOREIGN INVESTORS
1. Trading in goods and services included in the list of goods and services subject to state monopoly in the commercial sector.
2. Journalistic activities and news gathering activities in all forms.
3. Fishing or harvesting marine resources.
4. Investigation and security services.
5. Judicial administrative services, including forensic examination services, bailiff services, property auction services, notarization services, and services of insolvency administrators.
6. Services for sending workers abroad under contract.
7. Invest in the construction of cemetery and burial ground infrastructure for the purpose of transferring land use rights associated with the infrastructure.
8. Direct waste collection service from households.
9. Public opinion polling services (public opinion surveys).
10. Blasting services.
11. Manufacturing and trading of weapons, explosives, and supporting tools.
12. Importing and dismantling used ships.
13. Public postal services.
14. Import and export business.
15. Temporary import and re-export business.
16. Exercising export rights, import rights, and distribution rights for goods included in the List of goods that foreign investors and economic organizations with foreign investment capital are not allowed to export, import, or distribute.
17. Collection, procurement, and disposal of public assets at units belonging to the armed forces.
18. Manufacturing military materials or equipment; trading in military uniforms and supplies for the armed forces, military weapons, equipment, technology, specialized military and police vehicles, components, parts, spare parts, supplies and specialized equipment, and specialized technology for manufacturing them;
19. Business activities include providing industrial property representation services and intellectual property assessment services.
20. Services for establishing, operating, maintaining, and servicing maritime navigation aids, water areas, public waterways, and shipping routes; services for surveying water areas, public waterways, and shipping routes for the purpose of publishing Maritime Notices; services for surveying, constructing, and publishing nautical charts of water areas, seaports, waterways, and shipping routes; and constructing and publishing maritime safety documents and publications.
21. Maritime safety regulation services in public waters, zones, and navigation channels; maritime electronic information services.
22. Inspection services (testing, certification) for transport vehicles (including systems, assemblies, equipment, and components of vehicles); inspection services and certification of technical safety and environmental protection for specialized vehicles, equipment, containers, and packaging equipment for hazardous goods used in transport; inspection services and certification of technical safety and environmental protection for vehicles and equipment for oil and gas exploration, exploitation, and transportation at sea; technical safety inspection services for machinery and equipment with strict occupational safety requirements installed on transport vehicles and vehicles and equipment for oil and gas exploration, exploitation, and transportation at sea; fishing vessel registration services.
23. Services for investigation, assessment and exploitation of natural forests (including logging and hunting, trapping of rare wild animals, management of gene pools of crops, livestock and microorganisms used in agriculture).
24. Research or use of new animal genetic resources before they have been assessed and evaluated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
25. Business of travel services, excluding international travel services for international tourists visiting Vietnam.
B. SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES WITH CONDITIONAL MARKET ACCESS FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS
1. Production and distribution of cultural products, including video recordings.
2. Production, distribution, and screening of television programs and musical, theatrical, and cinematic works.
3. Providing radio and television broadcasting services.
4. Insurance; banking; securities trading and other services related to insurance, banking, and securities trading.
5. Postal and telecommunications services.
6. Advertising services.
7. Printing services, publishing and distribution services.
8. Surveying and mapping services.
9. Aerial photography service.
10. Educational services.
11. Exploration, extraction and processing of natural resources, minerals, oil and gas.
12. Hydroelectric power, offshore wind power, and nuclear energy.
13. Transportation of goods and passengers by rail, air, road, river, sea, and pipeline.
14. Aquaculture.
15. Forestry and hunting.
16. Betting and casino business.
17. Security services.
18. Construction, operation and management of river ports, seaports and airports.
19. Real estate business.
20. Legal services.
21. Veterinary services.
22. Activities involving the buying and selling of goods and activities directly related to the buying and selling of goods by foreign service providers in Vietnam.
23. Technical inspection and analysis services.
24. Tourism services.
25. Health services and social services.
26. Sports and entertainment services.
27. Paper manufacturing.
28. Manufacturing of transport vehicles with more than 29 seats.
29. Developing and operating traditional markets.
30. Commodity Exchange Operations.
31. Domestic less-than-container load (LCL) cargo consolidation service.
32. Auditing, accounting, bookkeeping, and tax services.
33. Valuation services; consulting on determining the value of enterprises for equitization.
34. Services related to agriculture, forestry, and fisheries.
35. Aircraft manufacturing and production.
36. Manufacturing and fabrication of railway locomotives and carriages.
37. Manufacturing and trading of tobacco products, tobacco raw materials, machinery, and equipment related to the tobacco industry.
38. Publishing house operations.
39. Shipbuilding and ship repair.
40. Waste collection services, environmental monitoring services.
41. Commercial arbitration services, arbitration mediation.
42. Logistics services business.
43. Coastal shipping.
44. Cultivating, producing, or processing rare crops; breeding rare wild animals; and processing or handling these animals or crops, including live animals and products derived from them;
45. Manufacture of building materials.
46. Construction and related engineering services.
47. Assembling a motorcycle.
48. Services related to sports, fine arts, performing arts, fashion shows, beauty and modeling contests, and other recreational activities.
49. Air transport support services; ground engineering services at airports; in-flight catering services; navigation and monitoring services; aviation meteorological services.
50. Ship agency services; ship towing services.
51. Services related to cultural heritage, copyright and related rights, photography, video recording, sound recording, art exhibitions, festivals, libraries, museums;
52. Services related to tourism promotion and marketing.
53. Representation services, recruitment and scheduling agency, and management for artists and athletes.
54. Services related to family.
55. E-commerce activities.
56. Cemetery business, cemetery services and burial services.
57. Seed sowing and chemical spraying services using aircraft.
58. Maritime pilotage services;
59. Sectors and professions subject to investment under pilot mechanisms of the National Assembly, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government, and the Prime Minister.