Vietnam

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Best Prospects in the ICT Market

For further information about the Vietnamese market, please consult the Country Commercial Guide.

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Chambers of Commerce

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Channels of Distribution

For further information of the definitions of the channels of distribution, please click here. The following are known ICT sales channels.   They may or may not be available in all markets.

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Agents / Distributors

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Business to Business (B2B)

Airlines

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Banks

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Newspapers

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Consultants

Computer

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Telecommunications

US Subsidiaries

E-Commerce

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OEM

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Used / Reconditioned

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Directories and Databases

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Duties, Tariffs & Taxes

For information about Tariffs and Taxes on Computer Hardware and Software, please see: http://web.ita.doc.gov/.

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General Country Information

http://www.cpv.org.vn/	Communist Party of Vietnam. News about country.  275002 Doi Can St., Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: 84-80-48161, Fax: 84-80-44175, Email: vanphongbttvh@cpt.gov.vn
http://www.osh.netnam.vn/	National information network on OSH of Vietnam.  Email: NILP@netnam.org.vn
http://www.vietnamgateway.org	Vietnam Development Gateway provides news and services.  Email: vncgteam@vnn.vn , Tel: 84-4-537-3873
http://www.vietnamtourism.gov.vn/	Vietnam National Administration of Tourism provides news on administration, economy, investment, society, tourism and law about Vietnam.  80 Quan Su, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: 84-4-8224714; 9421061, 9422246, Email: vnat@vietnam-tourism.com
http://www.vnn.vn/	VietNam Net - Web Portal to Vietnam.  99 Trieu Viet Vuong, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (04) 772.2729, Fax: (+84.4) 772-2733, Email: evnn@vasc.com.vn
http://coombs.anu.edu.au	Vietnam Virtual Webguide
http://www.vietnamavenue.com/	Vietnamese web portal
http://www.state.gov/l	US Dept. of State's Background Notes
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/	Vietnam Virtual Webguide
http://travel.state.gov/	US Dept. of State's Consular Information Sheet
http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/	US Embassy Hanoi
http://hochiminh.usconsulate.gov	U.S. Consulate General, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam, 4 Le Duan Blvd., District 1, HoChiMinh, Tel: 84-8-822 9433, Fax: 84-8-824 5571
https://www.cia.gov/	CIA Factbook
http://www.fodors.com/	Fodor's mini guides to Ho Chi Minh City
http://www.eia.doe.gov/	US Dept of Energy's Country Analysis Brief
http://geography.about.com/	About's guide to Vietnam
http://www.fodors.com/	Fodors is known for being the best site for travel offering hotel, restaurant reviews and their series of mini-guides to specific destinations.
http://travel.lycos.com/	Lycos City Guide for Vietnam

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Intellectual Property Rights

The Vietnamese legal system is still in a state of transition to support a more market-oriented development.

Vietnamese officials have limited experience drafting legislation, and new laws and regulations sometimes are contradictory or unclear. Different officials, sometimes within the same agency, may interpret laws differently. There is a shortage of trained lawyers, judges, and law professors. Substantial foreign assistance is being devoted to assist Vietnam to establish a legal structure compatible with international standards.

All land in Vietnam belongs to the people, administered or managed by the state. Private land use rights (LUR’s) were established for the first time in 1988. A LUR is a state-granted right to use land for a specific purpose. The 1992 Constitution granted stronger land rights to individuals, including rights over commercial and personal property. In the 1993 Land Law, the National Assembly broadened LUR’s to include rights to exchange, transfer, rent, inherit, and mortgage land.

LUR’s may be granted for up to fifty years, depending on the specific use of the land.  Individual holders of LUR’s can sell them if they move to a new location, change jobs, or are unable to work. In 1998 several changes to the Land Law were enacted, primarily to distinguish between corporate lease holders, who can use their land for domestic or foreign joint ventures, and individual lease holders who are not permitted to enter joint ventures with foreign entities.

Vietnamese LUR-holders have the right to mortgage them, but Vietnamese banks generally value land at a maximum of 70 percent of the total rent already paid on the property. As organizations only were obliged to begin paying rent in February 1995, the values of mortgages on land are not large, which limits their usefulness for property-based project finance. Previously local branches of foreign banks were not permitted to accept LUR’s as collateral for loans, but an amendment to the Foreign Investment Law scheduled to take effect 1 July 2000 appears to allow this.

Vietnam is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and is a signatory to the Paris Convention for Industrial Property. It has acceded to the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Madrid Agreement, but has not yet joined the Berne Convention. Vietnam is working to devise a system of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) consistent with the WTO TRIP’S Agreement. Trademark registration is straightforward, although infringement is widespread and enforcement of IPR court decisions remains problematic.

Vietnam's laws offer some protection for foreign patent holders, but there are infringements. Vietnam's laws do not adequately protect non-patent trade secrets, new breeds of plants and trees, or biotechnology. Software is routinely copied and sold; only an estimated 1 percent of all software in Vietnam was acquired legally.  

In June 1997 Vietnam and the United States signed a Bilateral Copyright Agreement to establish a legal framework to protect Vietnamese and U.S. copyright holders. This agreement was formally implemented in December 1998 and marks a major step forward for Vietnam, as the country previously did not recognize any foreign copyrights.

Vietnam's Copyright Office is under the control and supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Enforcement of IPR remains inadequate. Local police authorities often are slow to act are becoming more active.

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Legal Issues

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Market Research

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Search Engines

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Technical Standards

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Trade Associations

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Trade Publications

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Trade Shows, Exhibitions and Seminars

Additional information on how to prepare for and select an international trade show can be found at http://www.exportmichigan.biz/. 

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User Groups

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E-Mail Links to the Respective Industry Specialist(s)

Mr. Bui Tuong Dang Quang, Commercial Assistant

Telephone: (84)-8-825-0490

Facsimile: (84)-8-825-0491

E-mail address: Bui.Quang@mail.doc.gov 

Industry Sectors: CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM (CAD), Computer Services (CSV), Computer Software (CSF), Computers/Peripherals (CPT), Information Services (INF), Telecommunications Eq. (TEL), Telecommunications Services (TES)

OFFICE INFORMATION

STREET ADDRESS

U.S. Commercial Service Office

Saigon Centre Building, 9F

65 Le Loi Boulevard

District 1, HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

U.S. MAILING ADDRESS

U.S. Commercial Service Office - Ho Chi Minh City

AmConGen- HCMC

PSC 461 Box 500

FPO AP 96521

Mr. Nghiem Thanh Tung, Commercial Assistant

Telephone: 84-4-8242422

Facsimile: 84-4-8242421

E-mail address: Nghiem.T.Tung@mail.doc.gov

Industry Sectors: Telecommunications Eq. (TEL), Telecommunications Services (TES)

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Revised: November 08, 2008

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