INDUSTRIES ENTITLED TO INVESTMENT INCENTIVES

Investment projects in the following industries are entitled to incentives:

      I. Forest planting; reforestation; planting of perennial trees on waste land, hills, bare mountains; reclamation; salt making; aquaculture in areas not yet exploited:

      1. Planting and preserving forests;

      2. Planting of perennial industrial trees and fruit trees on waste land, hills, bare mountains;

      3. Reclamation to serve production in agriculture, forestry, fishery;

      4. Production and refinery of salt;

      5. Raising, planting sea products in waters not yet exploited.

      II. Building infrastructure, developing public transport; developments in education, training, health, national culture:

      1. New investments in or modernization of power plants, power distribution, power transmission; building facilities that use solar energy, wind energy, biogas.

      2. Building water plants, water distribution to serve both residential and industrial purposes; building water drainage systems.

      3. New investments in or modernization of: bridges, roads, domestic water ways, railways, airports, ports, stations, parking areas;

      4. Building infrastructure for concentrated residential zones in areas listed in Appendixes B or C promulgated together with this Decree.

      5. Developing public transport: investments in means for railway transport, ocean transport, passenger transport on land by vehicles of 17 seats or more, passenger transport on water by mechanical means.

      6. Investments to provide Internet connection services, Internet access services, Internet application services in areas listed in Appendixes B and C promulgated together with

      7. Opening semi-public, community and private schools at the following levels: kindergartens, elementary and high schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities.

      8. Opening skill training schools for workers.

      9. Building museums, libraries, cultural houses, singing, dancing and traditional music groups; manufacturing, fabricating and repairing traditional music instruments; maintaining and preserving museums, libraries, cultural houses.

      10. Opening community and private hospitals and clinics for diagnosing and treating diseases, opening facilities to implement hygienic measures to prevent and fight diseases; opening rescue centers to care for the disabled, orphans, and elderly centers.

      III. Export manufacturing and trade:

      Manufacturing and trading projects which have an export value of more than 50% of the total value of goods manufactured and traded by the project in the financial year.

      IV. Fishing offshore; processing agricultural, forestry, seafood products; direct technical services for agriculture, forestry and fishery production:

      1. Catching sea products far away from shores;

      2. Processing agricultural products from domestic materials: processing cattle and poultry,; processing and preserving vegetables and fruits; producing oils, refined oils, fats from plants; producing liquid milk and dairy products; producing raw starch; producing feeds for cattle, poultry and aquaculture; producing bottled drinking water, canned fruits.

      3. Producing paper pulp, paper, cardboard, artificial boards directly from domestic agricultural and forestry materials.

      4. Processing and preserving aquaculture products from domestic materials.

      5. Support services for the planting of agricultural plants, industrial and forest trees; support services for animal raising; support services for forestry; aquaculture services; animal protection services; species breeding and hybridizing; preserving services for agricultural, forestry and aquaculture products; building warehouses to preserve agricultural, forestry and aquaculture products.

      V. Scientific research and technology development, scientific and technological services; legal, investment, trade, business administration consulting, intellectual property protection and technology transfer:

      1. Investments in facilities and technical projects: laboratories and experiment stations to apply new technologies in production; production of new, rare and precious materials.

      2. Investments to produce computers and software.

      3. Providing the following services: informatics technology researches and training informatics technology personnel.

      4. Investments to produce semiconductors and electronic components; manufacturing equipment for telecommunications, Internet; application of new technologies to telecommunications equipment.

      5. Application of high technologies; application of new bio-technologies in health services, production of new species of plants and animals, bio fertilizers, bio pesticides, animal vaccines; collection of wastes, treatment of wastes, environmental pollution treatment, recycling of waste materials.

      6. Application of technologies to use or to manufacture equipment that use bio energies, energies from win, the sun, geo heat, tidal waves.

      7. Legal, investment, trade, business administration consulting, science and technology consulting; intellectual property protection and technology transfer.

      VI. Other industries:

      1. Planting sugarcanes, cotton, tea to serve processing industries; planting of medical herbs, producing plant and animal species.

      2. Producing children's toys; fabric weaving, textile product finishing; producing yarns; tanning and processing leather.

      3. Animal husbandry and aquaculture raising in accordance with agro-business restructuring programs of the scale of plantations or more.

      4. Producing basic chemicals, pure chemicals, specialized chemicals, dye stuff.

      5. Investments to produce: human medicines; medical equipment, shape adjusting tools, specialized vehicles and tools for the disabled; building warehouses for medicine preservation; storing of human medicines to be used in floods, storms, natural calamities, dangerous diseases; plant protection stuffs, medicines for animals and aquaculture produces.

      6. Investments to produce: high and medium voltage electrical parts; diesel engines; equipment and parts for transport vessels, fishing vessels; equipment, parts and tools for agriculture and forestry; foodstuff processing equipment; equipment for textile and garment industries; equipment for the leather industry; mining equipment; construction equipment, industrial robots, train engines, wagons; cars and car parts; generators; precise mechanical equipment; safety control equipment; metal and non-metal moulds; building and repairing vessels and boats; manufacturing waste treatment equipment; other focused industrial products as per decisions of the Prime Minister in each period of time.

      7. Producing high class steel, alloys, colored metals, rare and precious metals; producing specialized cements, sound-proof materials, electrical and thermal insulation materials, wood replacement materials, construction elastic materials, fiberglass, refractory, coke, activated coals; producing fertilizers.

      8. Producing traditional handicrafts: carving, shell engraving, lacquer, stone sculpture, wicker, bamboo and rattan products, carpet weaving, silk weaving, mountainous fabric weaving, embroidery; ceramics, copperware, special paper.

      9. Building markets of 1st grade, exhibition zones; trade promotion centers; security trading; capital mobilization and capital lending by people's credit funds.

      10. Marine, air, railroad, land and domestic waterway services.

      11. Investments in national tourist zones, eco parks; national gardens; cultural parks, covering sports, entertainment and recreation activities.

      12. Investments and trades in industrial zone infrastructure, export processing zones, high-tech zones. High-tech manufacturing, processing and services in industrial zones, export processing zones, hi-tech zones, small and medium sized industrial parks and zones.

      13. Investments in the forms of BOT, BTO and BT.

For further information, please contact:

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