Is it permissible for the Chinese company to place its name in their language on a sign in Vietnam?
Is it permissible for the Chinese company to place its name in their language on a sign in Vietnam? Does the representative office in Vietnam perform business functions?
Hello, may I ask if I am working at a Chinese investment company in Vietnam, the company is allowed to put the business name in Chinese on the company sign? Please advice. Thankyou.
Is it permissible for the Chinese company to place its name in their language on a sign in Vietnam?
In Article 39 of the Law on Enterprises 2020, there are provisions on the issue of business names in foreign languages and their initials as follows:
1. The enterprise’s name in a foreign language is the name translated from the Vietnamese name into one of the Latin-based languages. The proper name of the enterprise’s may be kept unchanged or translated into the foreign language.
2. In case an enterprise’s name is in a foreign language, the text size of the foreign name shall be smaller than the Vietnamese name displayed at the enterprise’s headquarters, branches, representative offices and business locations and on the enterprise’s transaction documents, records and materials published by the enterprise.
3. The abbreviated name of an enterprise may be abbreviation of its Vietnamese name or foreign language name.
Thus, based on the current regulations, the Chinese company is allowed to put its name in Chinese on the sign. However, they must be printed or written with a smaller letter size than the business' Vietnamese name.
Does the representative office in Vietnam perform business functions?
In Article 44 of the Law on Enterprises 2020, there are provisions on branches, representative offices and business locations of enterprises as follows:
1. A branch of an enterprise is its dependent unit which has some or all functions of the enterprise, including authorized representative. The business lines of a branch shall match those of the enterprise.
2. A representative office of an enterprise is its dependent unit which acts as the enterprise’s authorized representative, represents and protect the enterprise’s interests. A representative office shall not do business.
3. A business location of an enterprise is the place at which specific business operations are carried out.
According to this Article, the representative office does not perform the business function of the enterprise in Vietnam.
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