Foreign contractors working in Vietnam often see different words used for the same approval. Some contracts use the phrase contractor permit in Vietnam. Some tender documents say foreign contractor permit Vietnam. Commercial teams may call it foreign contractor license Vietnam. Lawyers and authorities today often use the term construction operation license in Vietnam. These terms …
Let’s face the reality. After the contract is signed, the project owner expects you on site and your team is ready to mobilize. Then someone asks whether your company already has a construction operation license in Vietnam, and that question can change the project schedule. This is often the gap between two different schedules: the …
Quick Reference For a long time, the easier direction of capital has been into Vietnam. Moving capital the other way, from a Vietnam company to a project abroad, has been harder. That is now changing. Vietnam is slowly opening the door for its companies to invest overseas, but it is doing so under supervision. For …
Quick Reference The Australia anti-dumping investigation on Vietnamese galvanized steel was formally initiated on April 30th, 2026, when the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission registered Case 702 covering zinc-coated galvanized steel imported from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea. The estimated dumping margin reported for Vietnamese exporting companies is 56.21 percent, and the deadline for exporters to …
When Vietnam issues a new decree on investment, the most common question managers ask is whether foreign-owned companies have to amend IRC or ERC. With Decree 96/2026/ND-CP, the answer for most operating businesses is no. You do not have to rush to amend your Investment Registration Certificate (IRC) or Enterprise Registration Certificate (ERC) just because …
Foreign companies doing business in Vietnam increasingly use arbitration to resolve commercial disputes outside the court system. But many of them underestimate what it takes to make arbitration in Vietnam actually work. To put it simply, for arbitration to work in Vietnam, the arbitration clause must be valid, the procedure must be managed carefully, the …
Many businesses today do sell only products. They may also include digital content, app access, subscriptions, membership benefits, online tools, or other digital features as part of the offer. From a business point of view, this may seem modern and attractive. From a legal point of view, however, digital products in an MLM model in …
For a long time, many businesses have thought that the main legal challenge in multi level marketing (MLM) is obtaining a license. Today, getting a license is only the beginning. A serious investor now needs to look further and ask whether the MLM model in Vietnam remains safe after launch. A license is only part …
Vietnam has issued Decree 137/2026 on multi level marketing, effective from July 1, 2026. This decree replaces the previous framework on multi level marketing regulation in Vietnam. Decree 137/2026 does not regulate only with licensing procedures. It also regulates what products may be sold, how an multi level marketing (MLM) network may grow, how businesses …
Foreign companies often believe they have a strong case against a Vietnamese counter-party. Yet they still lose contract disputes in Vietnam. They often realize too late that they lost not because the other side had better facts, but because the contract was never drafted with a real dispute in mind when the relationship began. In …
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