84 business lines restricted for foreign investors in Vietnam - thele.blog

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Trade in goods and services on the list of goods and services under the state’s monopoly:

a)    Goods, services serving national defense and security;

b)    Manufacturing, trading, export/import, temporary import, re-export or transit of industrial explosives;

c)     Manufacturing of gold bullions;

d)    Export/import of gold as materials for manufacturing of gold bullions;

e)    Release of lottery tickets;

f)      Import of cigarettes and cigars (except import thereof for trading of duty-free goods);

g)    Management, import, export, purchase, sale, preserve and protection of goods on the list of national reserves;

h)    Printing and casting of currency;

i)      Issuance of postage stamps of Vietnam;

j)      Manufacturing, export/import, trading, transportation or storage of fireworks and firework-related services;

k)     Transmission, dispatching of national power system; Construction and operation of multi-purpose hydropower and nuclear power projects particularly important to the economy and society;

l)      Public services to ensure maritime safety (Operating the sea light system; Operating the system of public navigational channels);

m)   Managing, operating and exploiting the system of coastal radio stations, coastal public information services;

n)    Flight operations assurance (Air traffic services; Aviation information services; Search and Rescue services);

o)    Managing and operating the national and urban railway infrastructure systems invested by the State; not including the maintenance of railway infrastructure;

p)    Managing and exploiting in case of assignment of plans for inter-provincial and inter-district irrigation and agricultural works system; sea embankment;

q)    Providing forestry services in special-use forests (except for landscape protection forests that are leased by the State to economic organizations for forest protection and development, combined with landscape, resort, eco-tourism business);

r)     Publication (excluding printing and distribution activities);

s)     Managing, maintaining and exploiting the public postal network;

t)      Providing public services in press distribution activities.

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Press activities and collection of news in any shape or form

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Catching or harvesting marine life

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Investigation and public security services

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Administrative and judicial services, including:

a)    Judicial assessment services

b)    Bailiff services

c)     Property auction services

d)    Notary services

e)    Official receiver’s services

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Service of sending workers to work abroad under contract

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Investment in construction of cemeteries for transfer of land use right and infrastructure thereon

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Direct collection of garbage from households

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Public survey services

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Blasting services

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Manufacture, sale of weapons, explosive materials and combat gears

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Import, dismantlement of used seagoing ships

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Public postal services

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Merchanting trade of goods

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Temporary import for re-export of goods

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Conducting the right to export, right to import and right to distribute for goods on the list of goods that foreign investors and foreign-invested economic organizations are not allowed to conduct the right to export, right to import and right to distribute:

Cigarettes and cigars, books, newspapers and magazines, video articles, precious metals and gemstones, pharmaceuticals, explosives, crude and processed oils, rice, cane and beet sugar are excluded from the scope of commitment.

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Collection, purchase, handling of public property at armed force units

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Manufacture of military materials or equipment; trading in military equipment for the armed forces, military weapons, technical equipment, weapons, military and police special-use vehicles, components, parts, spare parts, supplies and special equipment, specialized technology to produce them.

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Industrial property representative services and intellectual property assessment services

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a)    Services of establishing, operating, maintaining and servicing maritime signalling systems, water regions, water areas, public navigational channels and navigational routes;

b)    Services of surveying water regions, water areas, public navigational channels and navigational routes serving the issuance of nautical notifications;

c)     Services of surveying, constructing and publishing the nautical charts of water regions, water areas, public navigational channels and navigational routes;

d)    Developing and publishing maritime safety documents and publications.

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Regulatory services to ensure maritime safety in water regions, water areas and public navigational channels; electronic marine information service

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a)    Inspection services (testing, experiment) and issuance of certification for means of transport (including systems, equipment and components of vehicles);

b)    Inspection services and issuance of certification of technical safety and environmental protection for specialized vehicles, specialized equipment, containers, and equipment for packing dangerous goods in transportation;

c)     Inspection services and issuance of certification of technical safety and environmental protection for means and equipment for oil and gas exploration, extraction and transportation at sea;

d)    Technical inspection service for occupational safety for machines and equipment with strict requirements on occupational safety installed on transport vehicles and equipment for oil and gas exploration, extraction and transportation at sea; Registration and inspection of fishing vessel service.

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Services of investigation, assessment and exploitation of natural forests (including exploitation of woods and wild, rare and precious animals hunting and trapping, micro-bial plant, animal genetic resource in agriculture).

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Researching or utilizing genetic resources of new livestock breeds before being appraised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Travel services, except international travel services for inbound tourists.