How Foreign Investors Comply with Reports Submissions in Vietnam

Foreign investors setting up business in Vietnam have to comply with statistics report submissions according to Vietnam laws. To ensure compliance, corporate lawyers should be consulted to ensure compliance with reports applicable to foreign owned enterprises in Vietnam.As the current regulation, foreign owned enterprises are obliged to submit monthly, quarterly, six month and annual reports to the Vietnam Department of Statistics or State agency...

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Which Areas Are Incentivized For Investment in Vietnam Under Decree No. 37/2020

Investors are always interested in areas which the government incentivize for investment in Vietnam, to enjoy benefits i.e. tax reduction, tax exemption, land usage…which give them some help to grow the business in areas which are not economically potential without the help from the government when setting up a company in Vietnam.According to the regulations on business investment in Vietnam in Decree No.118/2015/ND-CP, investment projects eligible...

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Vietnam Attracts Japanese Investors

During the volatility of the Covid-19 pandemic, the decision to invest in Vietnam became more and more interesting to Japanese investors. Since 10 years ago, many Japanese enterprises have considered Vietnam as a promising foreign investment market after China. However, the outbreak of Covid-19 has left serious consequences for the Chinese economy, when a series of the world’s no.1 supply chains in this country were broken. Many foreign...

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Investor State Dispute Settlement between Foreign Investor and Host State under CPTPP Agreement and EVIPA Agreement

New-generation FTAs not only limit the field of goods and services but also expand regulation of scope of invesment. The majority of these FTAs include liberalization principles of investment and protection of investor through regulation on dispute settlement mechanism between investor and state (ISDS). The two agreements that have recently been paid attention to are the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership...

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Promote Vietnam-Canada investment under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Within the framework of CPTPP, Vietnam and Canada organized a “Business in Vietnam” Workshop organized by the City of Toronto and the Canada-Vietnam Trade Council in Toronto, Canada to promote investors to invest in Vietnam and set up company and factory. Through the workshop, the participants discussed the topics “Looking back on a year of implementation of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)...

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10 Questions to Ask Before Set-up Company in Vietnam

Foreigners are encouraged to make investment in Vietnam through direct investment by Setting up company in Vietnam. However there are restrictions in some cases in regard to investment capital, investment area, special licenses required. The investor is suggested to consult with a law firm in Vietnam for advice and service offering. Before setting up business in Vietnam, ask yourself the following questions: 1. Which business should...

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Protecting Invention Abroad via Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

Patent is an intellectual property right which owner could benefit from limited monopoly or commercialize through licensing the patent to others in return for royalty. To protect invention internationally, an inventor may file an international application with a national or regional patent office or WIPO and this aplication must comply with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) formality requirements. The patent owner should have a patent lawyer...

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Brief Reminder of Time Schedule to Apply PCT Application into Vietnam

According to Vietnam Law on Intellectual property, a PCT applicant who would like to go into Vietnamese phase after the end of PCT procedures need to submit the application within the following duration: If an international application designates Vietnam, the National Office of Intellectual Property in Vietnam (NOIP) is the designated office. In this case, in order to enter the national phase, the applicant shall submit, within 31 months...

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Regulation On Imposing Anti-Dumping Duty under Vietnam Laws

Imposition of anti-dumping measure includes imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty and official anti-dumping duty. According to Law on export and import duties 2016, anti-dumping duty means an additional import duty imposed upon dumped imports in Vietnam that cause or threaten to cause considerable damage to domestic manufacturing or prevent the formation of domestic manufacturing. Litigation lawyers in Vietnam Foreign Investment...

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Distinguish Assignment of Industrial Property Rights And the Licensing of Industrial Property Rights

According to Law on Intellectual Property in Vietnam, industrial property rights means rights of an organization or individual to inventions, industrial designs, designs of semi-conducting closed circuits, trademarks, trade names and geographical indications, trade secrets which such organization or individual created or owns, and the right to prevent unfair competition. Accordingly, these rights may be transferred to other organizations...

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Vietnam and Japan Signed 12 Cooperation Agreements

The Secretary General of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the President of Japan – Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Union- Nikai Toshihiro, on January 12th, 2020 met with the Vietnam’s Prime Minister- Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hoi An to discuss economic, cultural and tourist exchange topics. At the meeting, the representative of Vietnam welcomed the Japanese delegation to come and exchange of economic, cultural and tourism exchanges of...

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Hanoi Topped the Country in Attracting FDI after 7 Months

The Foreign Investment Agency (Ministry of Planning and Investment) has recently released the data on foreign direct investment (FDI) activities in Vietnam in the first 7 months of 2018, in which Hanoi is the province that attract the most FDI with the total registered capital of 6.17 billion USD, accounting for 26.9% of total investment. It shows that Hanoi is an attractive destination for foreign investors With a total registered capital...

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Mavin Pledged to Invest 80 Million USD in Nghe An

Mavin Group (Australia) has operated in Vietnam for a long time and now they do not hide their ambition to expand investment and set up business in Vietnam. In February 2017, Mavin Group inaugurated an animal feed production factory in Nghe An. This plant has a total investment of 15 million USD, which is built on an area of 3.6 ha and has a capacity of 300,000 tons per year. Mavin Group has invested in Vietnam for more than 12 years...

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US Businesses Intend to Move to Vietnam

Is Vietnam ready for relocation investment? Answering this question, the flow of foreign investment, particularly the United States to Vietnam will have great changes. Setting up company in Vietnam Law firms in Vietnam Vietnam company formation Is Vietnam ready? This question is again raised, this time from Mrs Marie Diron, Managing Director of the National Credit Risk Group for Asia and the Pacific (Moody’s). Mrs Marie...

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Korean Venture Capital Poured into Vietnam

According to Adjust’s Mobile Growth Map – a mobile market research company, Vietnam is the fastest growing application market that keeps Internet users. In 2017, Korean President Moon Jae-in announced a new policy aimed at strengthening the relationship between Korea and ASEAN. These policies have boosted the dynamism of Korean companies to Southeast Asian business. More and more companies in every field aim to Southeast Asia. Many of...

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Quang Ninh Is About to Receive 40 Million USD of FDI From Korean Investors

Recently, Chairman of Bumjin Electronic Company from Korea had a meeting with Chairman of Quang Ninh People’s Committee on the implementation of the project in Quang Yen town. Accordingly, the Company is preparing to deploy the investment project to build audio equipment factory in Dong Mai Industrial Park, Quang Yen Town, Quang Ninh Province with a total investment of 40 million USD. It is expected that the project will be started construction...

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Vietnam State Bank Guides Intermediary Payment Services under Circular 23

In recent years, digital wallet have been a trend in fintech because of the competitive development from the foreign investors to banks in Vietnam or of large technology companies and corporations which are also gradually entering the financial technology market to challenge the conventional banking in Vietnam. In a nutshell, digital wallet, also known as online wallet, is an account of payment for the most popular online transactions...

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Issuing Investment Certificate for Foreign Investors

Foreign investors whom wish to carry out business in Vietnam need to have investment project proposal prepared for submission to State Authority in Vietnam. Investment projects of foreign investors and projects of economic organizations with 51% or more foreign owned capital (except for cases of capital contribution, purchase of shares or capital contributions of economic organizations) need to follow procedures for issuing Investment Registration...

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PPP and BCC Investment

1. PPP Investment Public-private partnership investment (hereinafter referred to as PPP) is a form of investment which basis of a project contract between a competent state agency and a project investor or enterprise to build, renovate, operate, trade, manage infrastructure projects, and provide public services. PPP is a fairly developed model and is applied by many countries to take advantage of the state and the private sector for...

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