CONG TY LUAT THUY NGOC
Tiếng Việt   English  

List of Conditional Business Lines in Vietnam

LIST OF CONDITIONAL BUSINESS LINES

(142 business lines)

Issued together with Resolution No. 66.17/2026/NQ-CP of the Government on the reduction and amendment of conditional business lines provided in Appendix IV to the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15

Applicable from 1 July 2026 to 28 February 2027

No.

BUSINESS LINE

1

Manufacture of seals

2

Trading in support tools (including repair)

3

Trading in fireworks of all kinds, except explosive firecrackers

4

Trading in camouflaged devices and software used for audio recording, video recording and positioning; jamming devices and mobile communication signal disruptors

5

Trading in military uniforms and gear for the armed forces, military weapons, technical equipment, weaponry and specialized vehicles of the military and public security forces; components, parts, spare parts, supplies, special-purpose equipment and specialized technology for manufacturing the same

6

Pawnbroking services

7

Massage services

8

Security guard services

9

Practice of law

10

Notarial practice

11

Practice of judicial expertise

12

Audit services

13

Bonded warehouses and container freight stations

14

Business of locations for customs clearance, gathering, inspection and customs supervision

15

Securities business

16

Securities registration, depository, clearing and settlement services; support services for transactions on the domestic carbon exchange

17

Insurance business (excluding insurance auxiliary services)

18

Valuation services

19

Lottery business

20

Prize-winning game business (including prize-winning electronic games for foreigners, casinos and betting)

21

Credit rating services

22

Voluntary pension fund management services

23

Petrol and oil trading

24

Trading in industrial explosives (including destruction activities)

25

Trading in explosive precursors

26

Business lines using industrial explosives and explosive precursors

27

Blasting services

28

Production of and trading in chemicals, except chemicals and minerals on the list of banned substances in Appendix II to the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15; chemical storage services; specialized chemical consultancy

29

Trading in tobacco products, tobacco materials and machinery and equipment of the tobacco industry, except e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products

30

Trading in food 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 a Goods Exchange

32

Electricity generation, transmission, distribution, wholesale and retail

33

Rice export

34

Trading in industrial precursors

35

Goods trading and activities directly related to goods trading by foreign service providers in Vietnam

36

Multi-level marketing business

37

E-commerce activities: management and operation of intermediary e-commerce platforms, social networks engaged in e-commerce and integrated e-commerce platforms; certification of electronic contracts in commerce

38

Petroleum operations

39

Vocational education activities

40

Vocational skills assessment services

41

Occupational safety technical inspection services

42

Services of sending workers abroad for employment

43

Voluntary drug rehabilitation services

44

Road transport business

45

Manufacture, assembly and import of automobiles

46

Motor vehicle inspection services

47

Car driver training services

48

Driving test services

49

Traffic safety audit services

50

Training services for crew members and operators of inland waterway vessels

51

Training of seafarers and the recruitment and supply of seafarers

52

Air transport business

53

Services of designing, manufacturing, maintaining and testing aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers and aircraft equipment in Vietnam

54

Import, temporary import for re-export and temporary export for re-import of unmanned aircraft, other flying vehicles, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers and the equipment and devices thereof

55

Research, manufacture, testing, repair and maintenance of unmanned aircraft, other flying vehicles, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers and the equipment and devices thereof

56

Airport business

57

Aviation services at airports

58

Training services for aviation personnel

59

Railway transport business

60

Railway infrastructure business

61

Dangerous goods transport services

62

Real estate business

63

Practice of construction investment project management and of construction site commander

64

Practice of construction survey

65

Practice of construction design and construction design appraisal

66

Practice of construction supervision consultancy

67

Specialized construction testing services

68

Practice of urban and rural planning consultancy

69

Postal services

70

Telecommunications services

71

Trust services

72

Operation of publishing houses

73

Printing services, except printing of packaging that bears no goods label

74

Social network services

75

Business of games on telecommunications networks and the Internet

76

Pay radio and television services

77

Services of establishing aggregated e-information websites

78

Processing and repair services, for foreign traders and for consumption abroad, of goods on the List of used information technology products banned from import

79

Electronic authentication services

80

Trading in cybersecurity products and services (excluding civil cryptography products and services)

81

Distribution services for imported press publications

82

Trading in civil cryptography products and services

83

Preschool education activities

84

General education activities

85

Higher education activities

86

Operation of foreign educational institutions and branch campuses thereof

87

Continuing education activities

88

Capture fisheries

89

Fisheries business

90

Production of aquaculture feed and aquaculture environment treatment products; production of animal feed and livestock waste treatment products

91

Fishing vessel registry

92

Trading in plant protection products

93

Services of treating articles subject to plant quarantine

94

Plant protection product trial services

95

Trading in veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms and chemicals used in veterinary medicine

96

Animal testing and surgery services

97

Services of vaccination, disease diagnosis, prescription, treatment and health care for animals

98

Testing and trial services for veterinary drugs (including veterinary drugs, aquatic veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms and chemicals used in veterinary and aquatic veterinary medicine)

99

Farm-scale livestock business

100

Slaughtering of cattle and poultry

101

Fertilizer production

102

Fertilizer trial services

103

Trading in livestock breeds and production of plant varieties

104

Production and nursing of aquatic breeds

105

Trading in genetically modified products

106

Medical examination and treatment services

107

Pharmacy business

108

Cosmetics manufacturing

109

Medical device business

110

Services of conducting radiation work

111

Support services for the application of atomic energy

112

Conformity assessment services

113

Technology assessment, valuation and appraisal services

114

Intellectual property representation services (including representation of copyright and related rights, industrial property representation and representation of rights to plant varieties)

115

Film dissemination services

116

Appraisal services for relics and antiques

117

Services of planning, project formulation, design, construction organization and construction supervision consultancy for projects on the preservation, restoration and rehabilitation of monuments

118

Karaoke and discotheque services

119

Travel services

120

Sports business of sports enterprises and professional sports clubs

121

Accommodation services

122

Trading in relics and antiques, except the export thereof; services of preservation, restoration, digitization and database building for relics and antiques

123

Import of cultural goods under the specialized management of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

124

Surveying and mapping services

125

Hydro-meteorological forecasting and warning services

126

Groundwater drilling and groundwater exploration services

127

Water resource exploitation services

128

Mineral exploration services

129

Mineral exploitation

130

Hazardous waste transport and treatment services

131

Import of scrap

132

Environmental monitoring services

133

Business activities of commercial banks

134

Business activities of non-bank credit institutions

135

Business activities of cooperative banks, people's credit funds and microfinance institutions

136

Provision of payment intermediary services and of payment services not through customers' payment accounts; provision of mobile money services

137

Provision of credit information services

138

Gold trading, except jewelry and fine-art gold

139

Trading in data intermediary, data analysis and data aggregation products and services

140

Data exchange platform services

141

Provision of services related to crypto assets

142

Personal data processing services

Note: From 1 March 2027, this List will be replaced by the new Appendix IV (137 business lines) issued together with the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Investment, passed by the National Assembly on 24 August 2026. This English version is an unofficial translation for reference only; the Vietnamese text prevails.

other services

HỖ TRỢ TRỰC TUYẾN

028.3620.8435 0942.050.407