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List of conditional business sectors according to the 2020 Investment Law

CONGRESS SOCIAL REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
Law No.: 61/2020/QH14 Hanoi, date 17 month 6 year 2020

Appendix IV

LIST OF BUSINESS SECTORS AND ACTIVITIES SUBJECT TO CONDITIONAL INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS

STT

INDUSTRY, PROFESSION

1

Seal manufacturing

2

Business of providing support tools (including repair services)

3

Trading in all types of fireworks, excluding firecrackers.

4

Business in equipment and software used for covert recording, video recording, and location tracking.

5

Paintball gun business

6

Trading in military uniforms and equipment for the armed forces, military weapons, equipment, technology, military hardware, specialized military and police vehicles; components, parts, spare parts, materials and specialized equipment, and specialized technologies for manufacturing them.

7

Pawnshop business

8

Massage service business

9

Businesses selling signal transmitting devices for priority vehicles are entitled to priority.

10

Security services business

11

Business of providing fire prevention and firefighting services.

12

Practicing law

13

Practicing notarization

14

Practicing forensic expertise in the fields of finance, banking, construction, antiques, artifacts, and copyright.

15

The profession of auctioning assets

16

Practicing the profession of bailiff

17

Practicing asset management and liquidation for businesses and cooperatives during bankruptcy proceedings.

18

Accounting services business

19

Business audit services

20

Business providing tax filing services

21

Business of providing customs clearance services.

22

Sales of duty-free goods

23

Bonded warehouse business, consolidation point for less-than-container-load (LCL) cargo.

24

Business activities include operating locations for customs clearance, consolidation, inspection, and customs supervision.

25

Securities trading

26

The Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation engages in the business of securities registration, custody, clearing, and settlement services, and organizes the trading market for listed securities and other types of securities.

27

Insurance Business

28

Reinsurance business

29

Insurance brokerage, insurance ancillary activities

30

Insurance agent

31

Business of providing valuation services

32

Lottery business

33

Business of electronic games with prizes for foreigners.

34

Credit rating services business

35

Casino business

36

Betting business

37

Business of providing voluntary pension fund management services.

38

Petroleum business

39

Gas business

40

Commercial inspection services business

41

Trading in industrial explosives (including disposal activities)

42

Trading in explosive precursors.

43

Businesses operating in industries or professions that utilize industrial explosives and explosive precursors.

44

Blasting services business

45

Trading in chemicals, excluding chemicals prohibited under the International Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, Use and Destruction of Chemical Weapons.

46

Wine business

47

Trading in tobacco products, tobacco raw materials, machinery, and equipment related to the tobacco industry.

48

Food business falls under the specialized management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

49

Commodity Exchange Operations

50

Activities include power generation, transmission, distribution, wholesale, retail, and specialized consulting in the power sector.

51

Rice export

52

Business of temporary import and re-export of goods subject to excise tax.

53

Temporary import and re-export of frozen food products.

54

Trading in the temporary import and re-export of goods included in the list of used goods.

55

Mineral trading

56

Trading in industrial precursors

57

The buying and selling of goods and activities directly related to the buying and selling of goods by foreign service providers in Vietnam.

58

Multi-level marketing business

59

E-commerce activities

60

Oil and gas operations

61

Energy audit

62

Vocational education activities

63

Quality assurance of vocational education

64

Business of providing vocational skills assessment services.

65

Business of providing technical safety inspection services for labor

66

Business of providing occupational safety and health training services.

67

Employment services business

68

Business of providing services for sending workers to work abroad.

69

Business activities include providing voluntary drug addiction treatment, tobacco addiction treatment, HIV/AIDS treatment, and care for the elderly, people with disabilities, and children.

70

Labor leasing services business

71

Road transport business

72

Business of providing warranty and maintenance services for automobiles.

73

Manufacturing, assembling, and importing automobiles.

74

Motor vehicle inspection services business

75

Business of providing car driving training services.

76

Business of providing training services for traffic safety inspectors.

77

Business of providing driver's license testing services.

78

Business of providing traffic safety inspection services.

79

Water transport business

80

Business activities include building, modifying, repairing, and restoring inland waterway vessels.

81

Business of providing training services for crew members and operators of inland waterway vessels.

82

Training and instructing maritime crew members, and organizing the recruitment and supply of maritime crew members.

83

Maritime safety services business

84

Maritime transport business

85

Business of providing tugboat services

86

Importing and dismantling used ships.

87

Business activities include shipbuilding, conversion, and repair services.

88

Seaport operation and management business

89

Business air transport

90

Business activities include the design, manufacture, maintenance, and testing of aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and aircraft equipment and accessories in Vietnam.

91

Business airports and airports

92

Providing aviation services at airports.

93

Business of providing air traffic control services.

94

Business of providing training and professional development services for aviation personnel.

95

Railway transport business

96

Railway infrastructure business

97

Urban rail business

98

Multimodal transport services business

99

Business of transporting hazardous goods

100

Pipeline transportation business

101

Real estate business

102

Business in supplying clean water (for domestic use)

103

Architectural services business

104

Business of providing consulting services for construction investment project management.

105

Construction survey services business

106

Business in providing design and design review services for construction projects.

107

Business of providing construction supervision and consulting services.

108

Business of providing construction services.

109

Construction activities of foreign contractors

110

Business of providing construction investment cost management services.

111

Business of providing construction inspection services.

112

Business of providing specialized construction testing services.

113

Business of providing apartment building management and operation services.

114

Business of providing management and operation services for crematoriums.

115

Business of providing construction planning and design services.

116

Trading in white asbestos products belonging to the Serpentine group.

117

Postal services business

118

Telecommunications services business

119

Business of providing digital signature authentication services.

120

Publishing house operations

121

Printing services business, excluding packaging printing.

122

Business of publishing and distribution services

123

Social media services business

124

Online gaming business via telecommunications and the Internet.

125

Business of providing paid radio and television services.

126

Business of providing services for setting up comprehensive electronic information websites.

127

Services for processing, recycling, repairing, and refurbishing used information technology products included in the list of prohibited imported used information technology products for foreign partners.

128

Business of providing information content services on mobile telecommunication networks and the Internet.

129

Business of providing domain name registration and maintenance services.

130

Data center services business

131

Business of providing electronic identification and authentication services.

132

Business in cybersecurity products and services.

133

Business of importing and distributing newspapers and magazines.

134

Business in civilian cryptographic products and services.

135

Trading in devices that jam or disrupt mobile communication signals.

136

Activities of preschool education institutions

137

Activities of general education institutions

138

Activities of higher education institutions

139

Activities of foreign-invested educational institutions, foreign educational representative offices in Vietnam, and branches of foreign-invested educational institutions.

140

Activities of continuing education institutions

141

Activities of special schools

142

Training collaboration activities with foreign countries

143

Education quality Accreditation

144

Business of providing study abroad consulting services.

145

Fisheries

146

Seafood business

147

Trading in aquatic feed and animal feed.

148

Business of providing testing services for aquatic feed and animal feed.

149

Trading in biological products, microorganisms, chemicals, and environmental treatment substances used in aquaculture and livestock farming.

150

Business of building and modifying fishing vessels.

151

Inspection of fishing vessels

152

Training and developing crew members for fishing vessels.

153

Cultivating and raising wild plant and animal species listed in the Appendices of the CITES Convention and the list of endangered, rare, and precious forest plants, animals, and aquatic species.

154

Raising common wild animals

155

Export, import, re-export, transit, and domestic trade of specimens from nature of species listed in the Appendices of the CITES Convention and the list of endangered, rare, and precious forest plants, animals, and aquatic species.

156

Export, import, and re-export of specimens of bred, raised, and artificially cultivated species listed in the Appendices of the CITES Convention and the list of endangered, rare, and precious forest plants, animals, and aquatic species.

157

Processing, trading, transporting, advertising, displaying, and storing specimens of plant and animal species listed in the Appendices of the CITES Convention and the list of endangered, rare, and precious forest plants, animals, and aquatic species.

158

Pesticide business

159

Business of providing services for handling objects subject to plant quarantine.

160

Business of providing pesticide testing services.

161

Plant protection services business

162

Trading in veterinary medicines, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, and chemicals used in veterinary medicine.

163

Providing technical services in veterinary medicine.

164

Business of providing animal testing and surgery services.

165

Business services include vaccination, disease diagnosis, prescription, treatment, and animal health care.

166

Business activities include providing testing and evaluation services for veterinary drugs (including veterinary drugs, aquatic veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, and chemicals used in veterinary and aquatic veterinary medicine).

167

Farm animal husbandry business

168

Livestock and poultry slaughtering business

169

The food business falls under the specialized management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

170

Business of providing quarantine and isolation services for animals and animal products.

171

Trading in fertilizers

172

Fertilizer testing services business

173

Trading in plant and animal breeds.

174

Aquaculture seed business

175

Business of providing testing services for plant and animal breeds.

176

Business of providing testing services for aquatic animal breeds.

177

Business activities include providing testing and evaluation services for biological products, microorganisms, chemicals, and environmental treatment substances used in aquaculture and livestock farming.

178

Trading in genetically modified products.

179

Business of providing medical examination and treatment services.

180

Business of providing cosmetic surgery services

181

Pharmaceutical business

182

Cosmetics manufacturing

183

Trading in chemicals and insecticides/bactericides used in the household and medical fields.

184

Medical equipment business

185

Business activities include providing intellectual property assessment services (including assessment of copyright and related rights, industrial property assessment, and assessment of plant variety rights).

186

Business providing radiation services

187

Business of providing support services for the application of atomic energy.

188

Business of providing conformity assessment services

189

Business activities include providing inspection, calibration, and testing services for measuring instruments and measurement standards.

190

Business in providing technology assessment, valuation, and inspection services.

191

Business of providing intellectual property representation services (including industrial property representation services and plant variety rights representation services)

192

Business of film distribution and exhibition services.

193

Business of providing antique appraisal services.

194

Business services include project planning, construction organization, and construction supervision for the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historical relics.

195

Karaoke and nightclub businesses.

196

Travel and tour services business

197

Business activities related to sports operations by sports enterprises and professional sports clubs.

198

Business activities include providing performing arts services, fashion shows, and organizing beauty and model contests.

199

Business of audio and video recordings of music, dance, and theatrical performances.

200

Accommodation business

201

Buying and selling relics, antiques, and national treasures.

202

Exporting relics and antiques not owned by the state or political organizations; importing cultural goods subject to specialized management by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

203

Museum services business

204

Business of electronic games (excluding the business of electronic games with prizes for foreigners and the business of online electronic games with prizes)

205

Business of providing consulting services for land survey and assessment.

206

Business services related to land use planning and plan development.

207

Business activities include providing services for the construction of information technology infrastructure and the development of software for land information systems.

208

Business of providing land database construction services.

209

Business of providing land valuation services.

210

Business of surveying and mapping services

211

Business of providing meteorological and hydrological forecasting and warning services.

212

Business services related to groundwater drilling and groundwater exploration.

213

Business activities involving the exploitation and use of water resources, and the discharge of wastewater into water sources.

214

Business activities include providing basic survey services, consulting on planning, projects, and reports on water resources.

215

Mineral exploration services business

216

Mineral extraction

217

Business of providing transportation and treatment services for hazardous waste.

218

Importing scrap metal

219

Environmental monitoring services business

220

Commercial bank business operations

221

Business operations of non-bank credit institutions

222

Business activities of cooperative banks, people's credit funds, and microfinance institutions.

223

Providing payment intermediary services, providing payment services that do not go through the customer's payment account.

224

Provide credit information services

225

Foreign exchange business and service provision activities of organizations other than credit institutions.

226

Gold trading

227

The activity of printing and minting money.

 

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