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Regulations on e-commerce involving foreign traders supplemented

The Government has issued Decree No.85/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing several articles of Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce involving foreign traders.
Regulations on e-commerce involving foreign traders supplemented ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: vneconomy.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) –The Government has issued Decree No.85/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementingseveral articles of Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce involving foreigntraders.

Accordingly, foreign traders and entities operating websites toprovide e-commerce services with Vietnamese domains and language, and havingover 100,000 transactions from Vietnam each year, must register e-commerceactivities in line with regulations, establish representative offices orappoint authorised representatives in the country.
Regulations on e-commerce involving foreign traders supplemented ảnh 2An e-commerce site in Vietnamese domain (Photo: Internet) 


Theirrepresentative offices or authorised representatives must work with Vietnam’sState management agencies to prevent transactions of goods and services thatviolate the nation’s laws.

According to a study conducted by iPrice Group andSimilarWeb, the top 50 shopping sites’ web visits in Vietnam's Map ofE-commerce in the first six months reached more than 1.3 billion, the highestever and up by 10 percent from the first quarter./.
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