APPENDIX IV
LIST OF CONDITIONAL BUSINESS LINES FOR INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS
(Issued together with the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15, as amended and supplemented by the Law No. 24/2026/QH16)
|
No. |
Conditional Business Investment Sector |
|
1 |
Manufacture of seals |
|
2 |
Trading in law-enforcement support devices (including repair) |
|
3 |
Trading in fireworks, other than exploding firecrackers |
|
4 |
Trading in disguised equipment/software used for audio recording, video recording, positioning; devices for jamming or blocking mobile communication signals |
|
5 |
Trading in military uniforms and equipment for the armed forces, military weapons, specialized military/police technical equipment, gear and vehicles; components, parts, accessories, materials, and specialized equipment and technology used to manufacture them |
|
6 |
Pawnbroking services |
|
7 |
Massage services |
|
8 |
Security guard services |
|
9 |
Practice of law |
|
10 |
Notary practice |
|
11 |
Judicial (forensic) expert examination practice |
|
12 |
Auditing services |
|
13 |
Operation of bonded warehouses and less-than-container-load (LCL) cargo consolidation points |
|
14 |
Operation of customs cargo collection, inspection and supervision locations |
|
15 |
Securities trading |
|
16 |
Securities registration, depository, clearing and settlement services; services supporting trading on the domestic carbon exchange |
|
17 |
Insurance business (excluding insurance auxiliary services) |
|
18 |
Valuation (appraisal) services |
|
19 |
Lottery business |
|
20 |
Prize-winning games (including electronic gaming machines with prizes for foreigners, casinos, and betting) |
|
21 |
Credit rating services |
|
22 |
Management of supplementary voluntary pension insurance funds |
|
23 |
Petroleum trading |
|
24 |
Trading in industrial explosive materials (including destruction/disposal activities) |
|
25 |
Trading in explosive precursors |
|
26 |
Business lines using industrial explosive materials and explosive precursors |
|
27 |
Blasting services |
|
28 |
Manufacture and trading of chemicals, except chemicals on the list of banned chemicals and minerals under Appendix II of Investment Law No. 143/2025/QH15; chemical storage services; specialized chemical consultancy activities |
|
29 |
Trading in tobacco products, tobacco materials, and machinery/equipment specific to the tobacco industry, excluding e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products |
|
30 |
Food trading under the specialized management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, and the Ministry of Health |
|
31 |
Operation of Commodity Exchanges |
|
32 |
Power generation, transmission, distribution, wholesale and retail |
|
33 |
Rice export |
|
34 |
Trading in industrial precursors |
|
35 |
Multi-level marketing business |
|
36 |
E-commerce activities: management and operation of intermediary e-commerce platforms, social networks conducting e-commerce activities, and integrated e-commerce platforms; certification of electronic contracts in commerce |
|
37 |
Vocational education activities |
|
38 |
Occupational skills assessment services |
|
39 |
Occupational safety technical inspection services |
|
40 |
Overseas labor placement services |
|
41 |
Voluntary drug rehabilitation services |
|
42 |
Road transport business |
|
43 |
Manufacture, assembly and import of automobiles |
|
44 |
Motor vehicle inspection services |
|
45 |
Automobile driving training services |
|
46 |
Driving test (examination) services |
|
47 |
Traffic safety audit services |
|
48 |
Training services for crew members and operators of inland waterway vessels |
|
49 |
Training of seafarers and organization of recruitment and supply of seafarers |
|
50 |
Air transport business |
|
51 |
Design, manufacture, maintenance and testing services for aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers and aircraft equipment in Vietnam |
|
52 |
Trading, importing, temporary import for re-export, temporary export for re-import, testing, repair and maintenance of unmanned aircraft and other aerial vehicles, aircraft engines, propellers, and equipment therefor |
|
53 |
Airport operation |
|
54 |
Aviation services at airports |
|
55 |
Training services for aviation personnel |
|
56 |
Rail transport business |
|
57 |
Railway infrastructure business |
|
58 |
Dangerous goods transport services |
|
59 |
Real estate business |
|
60 |
Practice of construction investment project management and site (chief) supervision |
|
61 |
Construction survey practice |
|
62 |
Construction design and design appraisal practice |
|
63 |
Construction works supervision consultancy practice |
|
64 |
Specialized construction testing services |
|
65 |
Urban and rural planning consultancy practice |
|
66 |
Postal services |
|
67 |
Telecommunications services |
|
68 |
Trust services |
|
69 |
Publishing house operations |
|
70 |
Printing services, except packaging printing that does not bear a trademark |
|
71 |
Social network services |
|
72 |
Online games on telecommunications networks and the Internet |
|
73 |
Pay radio and television services |
|
74 |
Establishment of general (aggregator) information websites |
|
75 |
Processing and repair services, for foreign traders and for consumption abroad, of used information technology products on the list of goods banned from import |
|
76 |
Electronic authentication services |
|
77 |
Trading in cybersecurity products and services (excluding civil cryptography products and services) |
|
78 |
Distribution of imported press publications |
|
79 |
Trading in civil cryptography products and services |
|
80 |
Preschool, general (K-12), higher, and continuing education activities |
|
81 |
Operation of foreign educational institutions and their branch campuses |
|
82 |
Fisheries exploitation (fishing) |
|
83 |
Trading in aquatic (fisheries) products |
|
84 |
Manufacture of aquaculture feed and aquaculture-environment treatment products; manufacture of livestock feed and livestock-waste treatment products |
|
85 |
Fishing vessel registration and inspection |
|
86 |
Trading in plant protection products (pesticides) |
|
87 |
Treatment services for objects subject to plant quarantine |
|
88 |
Testing services for plant protection products |
|
89 |
Trading in veterinary medicines, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms and chemicals used in veterinary medicine |
|
90 |
Animal testing and surgery services |
|
91 |
Vaccination, disease diagnosis, prescription, treatment and animal healthcare services |
|
92 |
Testing services for veterinary medicines (including veterinary drugs, aquatic veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms and chemicals used in veterinary and aquatic veterinary medicine) |
|
93 |
Farm-scale livestock business |
|
94 |
Livestock and poultry slaughtering business |
|
95 |
Fertilizer manufacturing |
|
96 |
Fertilizer testing services |
|
97 |
Trading in animal breeding stock; production of plant breeding stock/seeds |
|
98 |
Production and nursing of aquatic breeding stock |
|
99 |
Trading in genetically modified products |
|
100 |
Medical examination and treatment services |
|
101 |
Pharmaceutical business |
|
102 |
Cosmetics manufacturing |
|
103 |
Medical equipment trading |
|
104 |
Radiation work services |
|
105 |
Support services for nuclear energy applications |
|
106 |
Conformity assessment services |
|
107 |
Technology valuation, appraisal and assessment services |
|
108 |
Intellectual property representation services (including copyright and related-rights representation, industrial property representation, and plant-variety-rights representation) |
|
109 |
Film distribution services |
|
110 |
Expert examination (authentication) services for relics and antiquities |
|
111 |
Planning, project development, design, construction organization, and supervision consultancy services for the preservation, restoration and rehabilitation of heritage sites |
|
112 |
Karaoke and dance-hall (nightclub) services |
|
113 |
Travel (tour operator) services |
|
114 |
Sports business activities of sports enterprises and professional sports clubs |
|
115 |
Accommodation services |
|
116 |
Trading in relics and antiquities, except export trading in relics and antiquities; preservation, restoration, digitization and database-building services for relics and antiquities |
|
117 |
Import of cultural goods under the specialized management of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism |
|
118 |
Surveying and mapping services |
|
119 |
Hydro-meteorological forecasting and warning services |
|
120 |
Groundwater drilling and exploration services |
|
121 |
Water resource exploitation services |
|
122 |
Mineral exploration services |
|
123 |
Mineral mining/exploitation |
|
124 |
Transport and treatment services for hazardous waste |
|
125 |
Import of scrap materials |
|
126 |
Environmental monitoring services |
|
127 |
Commercial banking business activities |
|
128 |
Non-bank credit institution business activities |
|
129 |
Business activities of cooperative banks, people's credit funds, and microfinance institutions |
|
130 |
Provision of payment intermediary services; provision of payment services not through a customer's payment account; provision of mobile money services |
|
131 |
Provision of credit information services |
|
132 |
Gold trading, except jewelry and fine-art gold products |
|
133 |
Trading in intermediary data products and services; data analysis and aggregation |
|
134 |
Data exchange (data floor) services |
|
135 |
Provision of services related to crypto-assets |
|
136 |
Personal data processing services |
|
137 |
Visa-issuance support services provided by authorized business entities |















