Conditional business investment sectors and trades applicable from July 1, 2026

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