Charter capital is the number that quietly governs a foreign-invested company’s entire first year in Vietnam. It is declared at licensing, must be contributed on a fixed timetable through a specific account, and constrains borrowing, incentive eligibility and credibility with the authorities for as long as the project runs. Setting charter capital at the right…

An EPC contract concentrates design, procurement and construction in one contractor with one price and one completion date, and for foreign sponsors building a Vietnamese factory it is usually the right structure – provided the risk allocation is drafted for Vietnamese conditions rather than copied from an international precedent. Why an EPC contract suits Vietnamese…

Fire safety approval is the requirement that most often stops a completed Vietnamese factory from opening. It operates in two stages – design approval before construction and acceptance after it – and a facility that satisfies the first but fails the second sits finished and idle while remedial work is done. The two stages of…

An environmental permit determines whether a factory can be built as designed, and it is the approval foreign sponsors most consistently start too late. In Vietnam it is a design input, not a construction formality – the outcome shapes layout, treatment capacity and equipment selection before drawings are finalised. Which environmental permit route applies Projects…

A construction permit is the document that lets a factory actually be built, and it sits at the end of a chain of approvals that most foreign sponsors discover only when they are already behind. Understanding what must precede it is worth more than knowing how to apply for it. What must exist before the…

Factory setup in Vietnam runs on a fixed sequence, and the projects that finish on time are the ones that respect the order rather than the ones that push hardest on any single step. This guide sets out the seven stages from site decision to first production, with the dependencies that determine the critical path….

Factory location in Vietnam comes down to one structural decision before any comparison of provinces or rents: inside a zone, or outside it. The two routes differ in licensing burden, timeline, cost and risk allocation, and choosing wrongly is expensive in ways that only become visible eighteen months later. Factory location inside a zone The…

A high-tech park is where Vietnam concentrates the incentives it most wants used – and where the special investment procedure, the strongest tax treatment and the fastest licensing all converge. For semiconductor, advanced electronics and research-intensive investors, it is the default location rather than one option among several. What a high-tech park offers Four things…

An export processing zone gives manufacturers something ordinary industrial land does not: a customs-separated area where goods entering from abroad are, for duty purposes, treated as remaining outside Vietnamese customs territory. For a business importing components and exporting finished goods, that changes the working capital arithmetic entirely. What the export processing zone regime does The…

An economic zone in Vietnam offers something no industrial park can: a broader legal perimeter covering industry, services, urban development, ports and tourism together, with the most generous incentive package the country grants. For investors whose project spans more than manufacturing, it is frequently the right answer. How an economic zone differs from an industrial…