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.
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Hanoi (VNA) –
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.
Accordingly, foreign traders and entities operating websites to provide e-commerce services with Vietnamese domains and language, and having over 100,000 transactions from Vietnam each year, must register e-commerce activities in line with regulations, establish representative offices or appoint authorised representatives in the country.
An e-commerce site in Vietnamese domain (Photo: Internet)
Their representative offices or authorised representatives must work with Vietnam’s State management agencies to prevent transactions of goods and services that violate the nation’s laws.
According to a study conducted by iPrice Group and SimilarWeb, the top 50 shopping sites’ web visits in Vietnam's Map of E-commerce in the first six months reached more than 1.3 billion, the highest ever and up by 10 percent from the first quarter./.