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 |
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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.















