Industries and trades that have not yet been able to access the market for foreign investors

28/11/2022

Pursuant to the contents specified in Section A, Appendix I to Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP on industries and trades that are not yet accessible to the market for foreign investors, there are currently 25 industries that are not yet accessible to the market. Foreign investors have not been able to access the Vietnamese market.

  1. Trading in goods and services on the list of goods and services subject to state monopoly in the field of commerce.
  2. Press activities and news gathering activities in all forms.
  3. Fishing or fishing.
  4. Investigation and security services.
  5. Judicial administrative services, including judicial expertise services, bailiff services, property auction services, notary services, and services of asset administrators.
  6. Service of sending workers to work abroad under contract.
  7. Invest in building infrastructure for cemeteries and graveyards to transfer land use rights associated with infrastructure.
  8. Garbage collection service directly from households.
  9. Public opinion polling service (opinion poll).
  10. Blasting service.
  11. Producing and trading in weapons, explosives and supporting tools.
  12. Import and dismantle used ships.
  13. Public postal service.
  14. Trading in border-gate transfer of goods.
  15. Trading in temporary imports for re-export.
  16. Exercising the right to export, the right to import and the right to distribute with respect to goods on the list of goods that foreign investors and foreign-invested economic organizations are not allowed to exercise the right to export, right import and distribution rights.
  17. Collection, purchase and disposal of public property at units of the armed forces.
  18. Manufacture of military materials or equipment; trading in military equipment, military equipment for the armed forces, military weapons, equipment, techniques, weapons, specialized military and police vehicles, components, parts, spare parts, supplies and special equipment, specialized technology to manufacture them;
  19. Industrial property representation service business and intellectual property assessment service.
  20. Services for setting up, operating, maintaining and maintaining navigational signals, water zones, water areas, public navigational channels and navigational routes; surveying services of water areas, water areas, public navigational channels and navigational routes serving the publication of maritime notices; surveying services, building and publishing charts of water areas, seaports, navigational channels and routes; develop and publish maritime safety documents and publications.
  21. Regulatory services to ensure maritime safety in water zones, waters and public navigational channels; maritime electronic information service.
  22. Inspection services (inspection, testing) and issuance of certificates for means of transport (including systems, components, equipment and components of vehicles); inspection services and grant of certificates of technical safety and environmental protection for vehicles, specialized equipment, containers, equipment for packing dangerous goods used in transportation; inspection services and grant of certificates of technical safety and environmental protection for means and equipment for oil and gas exploration, exploitation and transportation at sea; technical inspection service for occupational safety for machines and equipment with strict requirements on occupational safety installed on means of transport and vehicles, exploration and mining equipment and transporting oil and gas at sea; fishing vessel registration service.
  23. Services of investigation, assessment and exploitation of natural forests (including logging and hunting, trapping of rare and precious wild animals, management of genetic funds of plants, animals and microorganisms used in the forest). Agriculture).
  24. Research or use genetic resources of new livestock breeds before being appraised and evaluated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
  25. Business travel services, except international travel services serving international tourists to Vietnam.

Therefore, before investing, foreign investors need to check and trace the industry they intend to invest in to have a basis for development and business in the Vietnamese market.