| CONGRESS --- |
SOCIAL REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness |
| Law No.: 24/2026/QH16 | Hanoi, date 24 month 8 year 2026 |
Appendix IV
LIST OF BUSINESS SECTORS AND ACTIVITIES SUBJECT TO CONDITIONAL INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS
(Issued together with the Investment Law No. 143/2025/QH15, which has been amended and supplemented by Law No. 24/2026/QH16)
⚠️ Note: Law No. 24/2026/QH16 takes effect from the date 01/03/2027.
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STT |
INDUSTRY, PROFESSION |
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1 |
Seal manufacturing |
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2 |
Business of providing support tools (including repair services) |
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3 |
Trading in all types of fireworks, excluding firecrackers. |
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4 |
Business activities include trading in equipment and software used for recording audio and video, location tracking, and devices for jamming and disrupting mobile communication signals. |
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5 |
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. |
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6 |
Pawnshop business |
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7 |
Massage service business |
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8 |
Security services business |
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9 |
Practicing law |
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10 |
Practicing notarization |
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11 |
Practicing forensic expertise |
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12 |
Business audit services |
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13 |
Bonded warehouse business, consolidation point for less-than-container-load (LCL) cargo. |
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14 |
Business of operating a customs assembly, inspection, and supervision location. |
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15 |
Securities trading |
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16 |
Business activities include securities registration, custody, clearing and settlement services; and support services for trading on domestic carbon exchanges. |
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17 |
Insurance business activities (excluding insurance ancillary services) |
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18 |
Business of providing valuation services |
|
19 |
Lottery business |
|
20 |
Business of gambling (including electronic gambling games for foreigners, casinos and betting) |
|
21 |
Credit rating services business |
|
22 |
Business of providing supplementary pension insurance fund management services. |
|
23 |
Petroleum business |
|
24 |
Trading in industrial explosives (including disposal activities) |
|
25 |
Trading in explosive precursors. |
|
26 |
Businesses operating in industries or professions that utilize industrial explosives and explosive precursors. |
|
27 |
Blasting services business |
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28 |
Production and trading of chemicals, excluding chemicals on the list of prohibited chemicals and minerals specified in Appendix II issued with the Investment Law No. 143/2025/QH15; chemical storage services; specialized chemical consulting activities. |
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29 |
Trading in tobacco products, tobacco raw materials, machinery, and equipment related to the tobacco industry, excluding e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. |
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30 |
The food business falls under the specialized management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, and the Ministry of Health. |
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31 |
Commodity Exchange Operations |
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32 |
Electricity generation, transmission, distribution, wholesale and retail sales. |
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33 |
Rice export |
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34 |
Trading in industrial precursors |
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35 |
Multi-level marketing business |
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36 |
E-commerce activities: managing and operating intermediary e-commerce platforms, e-commerce social networks, integrated e-commerce platforms; authenticating electronic contracts in commerce. |
|
37 |
Vocational education activities |
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38 |
Business of providing vocational skills assessment services. |
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39 |
Business of providing technical safety inspection services for labor |
|
40 |
Business of providing services for sending workers to work abroad. |
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41 |
Business of providing voluntary drug addiction treatment services. |
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42 |
Road transport business |
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43 |
Manufacturing, assembling, and importing automobiles. |
|
44 |
Motor vehicle inspection services business |
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45 |
Business of providing car driving training services. |
|
46 |
Business of providing driver's license testing services. |
|
47 |
Business of providing traffic safety inspection services. |
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48 |
Business of providing training services for crew members and operators of inland waterway vessels. |
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49 |
Training and instructing maritime crew members, and organizing the recruitment and supply of maritime crew members. |
|
50 |
Business air transport |
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51 |
Business activities include the design, manufacture, maintenance, and testing of aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and aircraft equipment in Vietnam. |
|
52 |
Business activities include: importing, temporary import for re-export, temporary export for re-import, testing, repairing, and maintaining unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), other flying vehicles, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and equipment and devices for UAVs and other flying vehicles. |
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53 |
Airport business |
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54 |
Providing aviation services at the airport. |
|
55 |
Business of providing training and professional development services for aviation personnel. |
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56 |
Railway transport business |
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57 |
Railway infrastructure business |
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58 |
Business of transporting hazardous goods |
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59 |
Real estate business |
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60 |
Practicing as a construction investment project manager and site manager. |
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61 |
Construction surveying profession |
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62 |
Practicing design and design review in construction |
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63 |
Practicing construction supervision and consulting services. |
|
64 |
Business of providing specialized construction testing services. |
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65 |
Practicing urban and rural planning consultancy |
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66 |
Postal services business |
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67 |
Telecommunications services business |
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68 |
Reliable service business |
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69 |
Publishing house operations |
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70 |
Printing services business, excluding printing of packaging without product labels. |
|
71 |
Social media services business |
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72 |
Online gaming business via telecommunications and the Internet. |
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73 |
Business of providing paid radio and television services. |
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74 |
Business of providing services for setting up comprehensive electronic information websites. |
|
75 |
Processing and repair services for used information technology products prohibited from import for foreign traders for consumption abroad. |
|
76 |
Electronic authentication services business |
|
77 |
Business in cybersecurity products and services (excluding business in civilian cryptography products and services) |
|
78 |
Business of importing and distributing newspapers and magazines. |
|
79 |
Business in civilian cryptographic products and services. |
|
80 |
Activities in preschool education, general education, higher education, and continuing education. |
|
81 |
Activities of foreign educational institutions and branches of foreign educational institutions |
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82 |
Fisheries |
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83 |
Seafood business |
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84 |
Production of aquatic feed, aquaculture environmental treatment products, animal feed production, and livestock waste treatment products. |
|
85 |
Inspection of fishing vessels |
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86 |
Pesticide business |
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87 |
Business of providing services for handling objects subject to plant quarantine. |
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88 |
Business of providing pesticide testing services. |
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89 |
Trading in veterinary medicines, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, and chemicals used in veterinary medicine. |
|
90 |
Business of providing animal testing and surgery services. |
|
91 |
Business services include vaccination, disease diagnosis, prescription, treatment, and animal health care. |
|
92 |
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). |
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93 |
Farm animal husbandry business |
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94 |
Livestock and poultry slaughtering business |
|
95 |
Fertilizer production |
|
96 |
Fertilizer testing services business |
|
97 |
Animal breeding business, plant seed production |
|
98 |
Production and breeding of aquatic species |
|
99 |
Trading in genetically modified products. |
|
100 |
Business of providing medical examination and treatment services. |
|
101 |
Pharmaceutical business |
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102 |
Cosmetics manufacturing |
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103 |
Medical equipment business |
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104 |
Business providing radiation services |
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105 |
Business of providing support services for the application of atomic energy. |
|
106 |
Business of providing conformity assessment services |
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107 |
Business in providing technology assessment, valuation, and inspection services. |
|
108 |
Business of providing intellectual property representation services (including representation services for copyright, related rights, industrial property, and plant variety rights). |
|
109 |
Film distribution service business |
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110 |
Business of providing authentication services for relics and antiques. |
|
111 |
Business activities include providing services for planning, project development, design, construction organization, and construction supervision consulting for projects related to the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of historical relics. |
|
112 |
Karaoke and nightclub businesses. |
|
113 |
Travel and tour services business |
|
114 |
Business activities related to sports operations by sports enterprises and professional sports clubs. |
|
115 |
Accommodation business |
|
116 |
Trading in relics and antiques, excluding the export of relics and antiques; trading in services for preservation, restoration, digitization, and database construction of relics and antiques. |
|
117 |
Importation of cultural goods is subject to specialized management by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. |
|
118 |
Business of surveying and mapping services |
|
119 |
Business of providing meteorological and hydrological forecasting and warning services. |
|
120 |
Business services related to groundwater drilling and groundwater exploration. |
|
121 |
Business of water resource exploitation services |
|
122 |
Mineral exploration services business |
|
123 |
Mineral extraction |
|
124 |
Business of providing transportation and treatment services for hazardous waste. |
|
125 |
Importing scrap metal |
|
126 |
Environmental monitoring services business |
|
127 |
Commercial bank business operations |
|
128 |
Business operations of non-bank credit institutions |
|
129 |
Business activities of cooperative banks, people's credit funds, and microfinance institutions. |
|
130 |
Providing payment intermediary services, providing payment services that do not go through the customer's payment account; providing mobile money services. |
|
131 |
Provide credit information services |
|
132 |
Trading in gold, excluding gold jewelry and handicrafts. |
|
133 |
Business in the provision of intermediary products and services, data analysis and synthesis. |
|
134 |
Data exchange service business |
|
135 |
Activities involving the provision of services related to crypto assets. |
|
136 |
Personal data processing services |
|
137 |
Visa support services provided by authorized businesses. |