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18 business lines that foreign investors are not allowed to do business in Vietnam

11:20, 13/10/2020

In the current era of economic development, Vietnam has more and more open policies for foreign investors to participate in business. However, the law also limits the scope of this subject's activities in a number of specific areas. Below are 18 business lines that foreign investors are not allowed to do business in Vietnam.

đầu tư nước ngoài

No.	Business line	Legal basis
1	Judicial expertise service	Article 7, Article 15 of the Law on Judicial Expertise of Vietnam
2	Industrial property appraisal service	Article 201 of the Law on Intellectual Property of Vietnam, Circular No. 01/2008/TT-BKHCN, Circular No. 04/2012/TT-BKHCN of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam
3	Industrial property representation service	Article 155 of the Law on Intellectual Property
4	Trading of industrial explosives	Point a Clause 3 Article 37 of the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Combat Gears of Vietnam
5	Provision of installation, operation and maintenance services of aids to navigation, waters, public navigational channels and sea lanes	Article 5 of Decree No. 70/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 1 Article 2 of Decree No. 147/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
6	Provision of survey service of waters, public navigational channels and sea lanes to serve the announcement of Notice to mariners	Article 7 of Decree No. 70/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 3 Article 2 of Decree No. 147/2018/NĐ-CP
7	Survey, preparation and issuance of nautical charts of seaport waters, navigational channels and sea lanes; formation and issuance of maritime safety publications and documents	Article 13 of Decree No. 70/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 8 Article 2 of Decree No. 147/2018/NĐ-CP
8	Electronic maritime information service	Article 15 of Decree No. 70/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 10 Article 2 of Decree No. 147/2018/NĐ-CP
9	Activities of transmission, national electric system regulation, construction and operation of big power plants of particularly important socio-economic, defense or security significance	Clause 2 Article 4 of the Electricity Law of Vietnam
10	Production of gold bars, export gold material and import gold material for production of gold bars	Clause 3 Article 4 of Decree No. 24/2012/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
11	Services for sending workers to work abroad	Clause 2 Article 6 of Decree No. 38/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
12	Petrol and oil trading	Decree No. 83/2014/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
13	Bailiff service	Article 6 of Decree No. 08/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
14	Notices to mariners service providers	Article 10 of Decree No. 70/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 5 Article 2 of Decree No. 147/2018/NĐ-CP
15	Provision of regulatory service for assuring maritime safety within waters and public navigational channels	Article 11 of Decree No. 70/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 6 Article 2 of Decree No. 147/2018/NĐ-CP
16	Air traffic and aeronautical information, search and rescue services	Article 23 of Decree No. 92/2016/NĐ-CP amended and supplemented by Clause 19 Article 1 of Decree No. 89/2019/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
17	Lottery business	Clause 1 Article 23 of Decree No. 30/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government
18	Notarization service	Clause 8 Article 22 of the Law on Notarization of Vietnam

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