{
  "id": 10927437,
  "title": "Foreign investors to be widened for market access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/foreign-investors-to-be-widened-for-market-access",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-30T10:54:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vietnam Investment Review",
    "slug": "vietnam-investment-review",
    "url": "https://vir.com.vn/foreign-investors-to-be-widened-for-market-access-161919.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Vietnamese government has proposed revisions to the Law on Investment to create a more accessible and efficient market for foreign investors. The amendments aim to address institutional barriers hindering investment and provide a framework that better serves investors while ensuring their incentives generate tangible economic and social benefits.\n\nPresenting the government's proposal, Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan outlined the proposed changes, which focus on three key areas: improving regulations on market access for foreign investors, renewing investment incentives and support policies, and streamlining investment procedures. The draft law includes a new Clause 3a, Article 8, which would loosen market access conditions for foreign investors on a case-by-case basis, based on a comprehensive assessment of impacts. This would ensure transparency, uniform application, and non-discrimination among investors.\n\nThe proposed amendments also seek to enhance market access for foreign investors by accelerating the upgrading of the stock market through substantive reforms. Additionally, the draft law aims to resolve pending limitations in the list of industries and trades with restricted market access.\n\nTo further support foreign investment, the draft introduces new methods for investment incentives and support, such as developing supply chains, manufacturing, product improvement, innovation, and initial and fixed-asset investments. The approach also shifts from offering tax and land cost incentives towards project-effectiveness-based support throughout the project's life cycle.\n\nThe government's proposal includes regulations to boost eco-industrial parks, allowing for the extension of their operating period up to 70 years. Furthermore, localities will have specific mechanisms to attract investment, and the draft amends and supplements regulations on the Investment Support Fund. The legislation aims to encourage investment based on regional growth poles, prioritizing high-tech and green investments in key economic areas and processing, manufacturing, and supporting services in surrounding areas.\n\nThe government anticipates that the new legislation will take effect by April 2027, building on the success of the Provincial Competitiveness Index, which has evolved into a crucial data ecosystem connecting business voices with institutional reform processes.",
  "summary": "Vietnam is moving to widen market access improve investment incentives and streamline procedures with greater support tied to investors actual commitments and results as part of the law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Investment",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}