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This article summarizes the List of sectors and trades subject to conditional business investment currently applicable from July 1, 2026 under the latest regulations.
No. | Sectors and trades |
1 | Making seals |
2 | Trading in supporting tools (including also repair thereof) |
3 | Trading in assorted fireworks, except firecrackers |
4 | Trading in camouflage equipment and software used for sound recording, image recording and positioning, information interference devices and mobile communication jamming devices |
5 | Trading in military uniforms and military equipment for armed forces, military weapons, equipment and devices, techniques, materiel and vehicles exclusively used for military and public security forces; components, parts, spare parts, supplies and special-type equipment, and specialized technologies for manufacture thereof |
6 | Provision of pawn services |
7 | Provision of massage services |
8 | Provision of security services |
9 | Law practice |
10 | Notarial practice |
11 | Judicial assessment practice |
12 | Provision of auditing services |
13 | Commercial operation of bonded warehouses and container freight stations |
14 | Commercial operation of places for customs clearance, goods gathering and customs inspection and supervision |
15 | Securities trading |
16 | Provision of securities registration, depository, clearing and payment services; or support services for transactions on the domestic carbon trading exchange |
17 | Insurance business activities (excluding insurance auxiliary services) |
18 | Provision of price appraisal services |
19 | Lottery business |
20 | Prize-winning game business (including prize-winning electronic games for foreigners, casino business and betting business) |
21 | Provision of credit rating services |
22 | Provision of voluntary pension fund management services |
23 | Petrol and oil trading |
24 | Trading in industrial explosives (including also destruction thereof) |
25 | Trading in explosive precursors |
26 | Dealing in sectors and trades involving the use of industrial explosives and explosive precursors |
27 | Provision of blasting services |
28 | Trading in chemicals, except those in the List of banned chemicals and minerals prescribed in Appendix II to the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15; chemical storage services; specialized chemical consultancy activities |
29 | Trading in tobacco products, tobacco materials, machinery and equipment specialized for the tobacco industry, excluding electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products |
30 | Trading in food subject to specialized management by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, and the Ministry of Health |
31 | Operation of goods exchanges |
32 | Electricity generation, electricity transmission, electricity distribution, electricity wholesale and electricity retail activities |
33 | Rice export |
34 | Trading in industrial precursors |
35 | Goods purchase and sale activities and related activities of foreign service providers in Vietnam |
36 | Multi-level marketing |
37 | E-commerce activities: management and operation of intermediary e-commerce platforms, social media platforms engaged in e-commerce, integrated digital platforms; authentication of electronic contracts in commerce |
38 | Petroleum activities |
39 | Vocational education activities |
40 | Provision of occupational skill assessment services |
41 | Provision of occupational safety-related technical inspection services |
42 | Provision of the service of sending guest workers |
43 | Voluntary drug rehabilitation service provision |
44 | Road transport business |
45 | Manufacture, assembly and import of automobiles |
46 | Provision of motor vehicle inspection services |
47 | Automobile driver training service provision |
48 | Driver testing service provision |
49 | Provision of traffic safety inspection services |
50 | Provision of inland waterway craft crewmember and operator training services |
51 | Maritime crewmember training, recruitment and supply |
52 | Air transport business |
53 | Provision of services of designing, manufacturing, maintaining and testing aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers and aircraft equipment in Vietnam |
54 | Import, temporary import for re-export, temporary export for re-import of unmanned aerial vehicles, other aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and equipment and devices of unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft |
55 | Research, manufacture, testing, repair, and maintenance of unmanned aerial vehicles, other aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and equipment and devices of unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft |
56 | Commercial operation of airports |
57 | Provision of aviation services at airports |
58 | Provision of aviation staff training services |
59 | Railway transport business |
60 | Commercial operation of railway infrastructure facilities |
61 | Provision of hazardous cargo transport services |
62 | Real estate business |
63 | Practice of construction investment project management and practice of construction site chief commander |
64 | Construction survey practice |
65 | Construction design and construction design verification practice |
66 | Construction work construction supervision consultancy practice |
67 | Provision of specialized construction testing services |
68 | Urban and rural planning consultancy practice |
69 | Provision of postal services |
70 | Provision of telecommunications services |
71 | Trust service business |
72 | Operation of publishing houses |
73 | Provision of printing services, except printing of packings without commodity labels |
74 | Provision of social networking services |
75 | Gaming services in telecommunications networks and the Internet |
76 | Provision of pay radio and television services |
77 | Provision of website development services |
78 | Provision of processing and repair services for goods falling under the List of used information technology products banned from import, provided to foreign traders for overseas consumption |
79 | Provision of electronic authentication services |
80 | Trading in cyber security products and services (excluding trade in civil cryptography products and services) |
81 | Provision of imported press distribution services |
82 | Trading in or provision of civil cryptography products and services |
83 | Preschool education activities |
84 | General education activities |
85 | Higher education activities |
86 | Activities of foreign educational institutions and branches of foreign educational institutions |
87 | Continuing education activities |
88 | Fishing |
89 | Trading in aquatic products |
90 | Production of aquaculture feed and aquaculture environmental treatment products; production of livestock feed and livestock waste treatment products |
91 | Fishing ship registration and inspection |
92 | Trading in pesticides |
93 | Provision of the service of treatment of objects subject to plant quarantine |
94 | Provision of pesticide testing services |
95 | Trading in veterinary drugs, vaccines, bio-preparations, microorganisms and chemicals for use in animal health |
96 | Provision of animal testing and surgery services |
97 | Provision of vaccination, diagnosis, prescription, cure and heathcare services for animals |
98 | Provision of experiment and testing services for veterinary drugs (including veterinary drugs, veterinary drugs for aquatic animals, vaccines, bio-preparations, microorganisms and chemicals for use in animal health and aquatic animal health) |
99 | Trading in farm-based animal husbandry |
100 | Trading in cattle and poultry slaughtering |
101 | Fertilizer production |
102 | Provision of fertilizer testing services |
103 | Livestock breed business and crop variety production |
104 | Production and rearing of aquatic breeds |
105 | Trading in genetically modified products |
106 | Provision of medical examination and treatment services |
107 | Pharmaceutical business |
108 | Cosmetic production |
109 | Trading in medical equipment |
110 | Provision of the service of performance of radiation jobs |
111 | Provision of atomic energy application support services |
112 | Provision of conformity assessment services |
113 | Provision of technology assessment, price appraisal and assessment services |
114 | Provision of intellectual property rights representation services (including industrial property representation services and representation services of rights to plant varieties) |
115 | Provision of film dissemination services |
116 | Provision of relic and antique assessment services |
117 | Provision of services of formulation of master plans, projects, design and construction organization and supervision for, projects on preservation, embellishment and restoration of relics |
118 | Provision of karaoke or discotheque services |
119 | Provision of travel services |
120 | Dealing in sports activities of sports enterprises and professional sports clubs |
121 | Provision of accommodation services |
122 | Trading in relics and antiques, excluding trading in export of relics and antiques; provision of services for preservation, restoration, digitization, and database development of relics and antiques |
123 | Import of cultural goods subject to specialized management by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism |
124 | Provision of survey and mapping services |
125 | Provision of hydrometeorological forecasting and warning services |
126 | Provision of groundwater drilling and exploration services |
127 | Provision of services of exploiting water resources |
128 | Provision of mineral exploration services |
129 | Mineral mining |
130 | Provision of hazardous waste transport and treatment services |
131 | Scrap import |
132 | Provision of environmental monitoring services |
133 | Business operations of commercial banks |
134 | Business operations of non-bank credit institutions |
135 | Business operations of cooperative banks, people’s credit funds and microfinance institutions |
136 | Provision of intermediary payment services and payment services without using customers’ payment accounts; provision of mobile money services |
137 | Credit information service provision |
138 | Gold trading, excluding gold jewelry and art crafts |
139 | Provision of data intermediary, analysis and aggregation products and services |
140 | Provision of data exchange platform service |
141 | Activities of providing services related to crypto assets |
142 | Personal data processing services |
