Vietnam exempts visas for citizens of 13 countries | ANT Consulting

 In order to encourage international tourists to return Vietnam after a long pause due to the pandemic and quickly adapt to the new situation of recovering the tourism industry, gradually bringing the tourism industry back to life, Vietnam Government has issued Resolution No. 32/NQ-CP visa exemption for citizens of 13 countries. This policy is an appropriate solution to bring international tourists to travel to Vietnam and also an opportunity for Vietnam’s tourism to recover.

Subjects exempt from visas are citizens of the following countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Northern Ireland, Russian Federation, Japan, South Korea, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Belarus. Accordingly, citizens of these countries will be exempted from visas for 15 days from the date of entry, regardless of passport type, entry purpose, on the basis of meeting all conditions as prescribed by Vietnam immigration law.

Regarding the application period of the visa exemption policy, the visa exemption on entry to Vietnam for citizens of the above countries will be implemented for a period of 3 years, from March 15th, 2022 to the end of March 14th, 2025. Besides, this policy may be considered for extension in accordance with Vietnamese law.

In addition, to enter Vietnam, visitors need to comply with the requirements on epidemic prevention and control for people on entry. Specifically, visitors must have a negative test result for SARS-CoV-2, must make a medical declaration before entry and monitor their health and apply Covid-19 prevention measures.

Therefore, it can be seen that Vietnam has created favorable conditions for tourism to gradually approach international tourists in an effective and safe manner. These would gradually improve the economic environment, and bring more potential investors to Vietnam to set up company and make investment.

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Binh Dinh Is Active in Calling for Investment | ANT Consulting

 Thanks to the early approval of planning and proactive in calling for investment, for many years, Binh Dinh has caught the eye not only of investors in the country, but also internationally to come and invest, set up company in Vietnam.

With its strategic geographical location and synchronous investment in infrastructure, Binh Dinh has become a reliable destination for investors.

Over the past time, the province has actively reviewed and adjusted the planning and developed strategic plans for development in each area; focus on expanding industrial development space, building new industrial zones and clusters, developing raw material areas with high economic value; proactively prepare well for infrastructure, especially land; accelerate the implementation of administrative reform, improve the investment and business environment.

In particular, Binh Dinh consistently implements the policy of selective investment attraction, giving priority to industries and projects using modern technology, high added value and making a great contribution to the state budget, environmentally friendly, use less labor, focus on electronics, processing and manufacturing.

Investment attraction has been and is a key solution for Binh Dinh province to accelerate economic growth. Therefore, solutions to improve the investment and business environment are identified as the key tasks of all levels and sectors.

In the coming time, the locality will continue to focus on inviting domestic and foreign investors with potential and strong brands to invest in key projects in key fields such as tourism – services, infrastructure. transportation, education, health, supporting industry, processing industry, seaport, high-tech agriculture, software production… Prioritize to attract projects with modern technology and friendly to the environment.

In addition, the locality will continue to focus on inviting major investors capable of attracting and promoting auxiliary projects, clean technology projects from Japanese, Korean, US and Western Europe partners… In addition, the administrative reform will continue to be improved, focusing on business registration, construction licensing, investment licensing, land allocation procedures…

Binh Dinh is considered to be a place that meets many conditions, from geographical location to transport infrastructure, including seaports, railways, airlines and Nhon Hoi Economic Zone, which enjoy outstanding mechanisms… This has helped the locality have many opportunities and great advantages to promote FDI attraction in the post-Covid-19 period.

Only in the last 4 months, large foreign enterprises want to pour capital into the locality such as: Mitsubishi Corporation considers building automobile factories; Hyundai Aluminum Vina Company hopes to invest in infrastructure of a high-tech industrial park in Binh Dinh and promises to attract about 60 Korean investors to produce and do business; Cammsys Company (Korea) wishes to cooperate in developing an electric car supply project; The German Group proposed to develop an offshore wind power park with a total capital of billions of USD…

Binh Dinh province is also focusing on the “dual mission” that is to prevent epidemics, develop socio-economic and well implement the key tasks set out.

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Vietnam and Denmark promote clean energy development | ANT Consulting

 Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam has cooperated with Denmark on clean energy development. Denmark has contributed to provide an important foundation for economical and efficient use of energy in Vietnam.

Another important cooperation content of the Vietnam – Denmark Energy Partnership Cooperation Program is the biennial publication of the Vietnam Energy Outlook Report. This report emphasizes energy efficiency as a cost-effective tool for Vietnam’s green transition to 2030 and 2050 and recommends investment in energy-saving technologies because of this technology will be more cost effective due to the significant savings in fuel costs. Economical and efficient use of energy has many benefits, including major benefits to society such as reducing environmental pollution and enhancing national energy security.

Vietnam is a country with the potential to develop clean energy such as wind energy, solar energy, tidal energy, … with the advantage of being a country adjacent to the sea, near the equator, with high hours of sunshine in a year, these are enough for Vietnam to become a country with a sustainable clean energy base. However, due to many objective factors, Vietnam has not been able to make good use of this resource. The limitation in science, technology, engineering and finance makes the clean energy sector in Vietnam not really focused on development.

Denmark is a European country with many years of experience in clean energy development. After many years of researching the clean energy market in Vietnam, many Danish investors have found the benefit and the ability to develop this field. With the goal of developing clean energy, providing energy efficient and safe platforms. Meanwhile, Denmark has many companies in wind and solar power and is very interested in market entry into Vietnam market through setting up company, or manufacturing in Vietnam.

In addition, Danish investors also promote development, investment cooperation, building smart city in Vietnam, apply science and technology applications and clean energy to build and develop a sustainable way. Therefore, this is an opportunity for Vietnam to attract energy investment from Denmark and also an opportunity for Danish investors to invest in Vietnam. In the coming time, Vietnam hopes to have more investors from Denmark implementing energy development projects in Vietnam so that they can reap high returns for both investors and Vietnam in the future.

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Trade cooperation between Vietnam and Germany and potential future | ANT Consulting

  After 45 years of establishing diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Germany (from 1975 to 2020), Germany and Vietnam have had cooperation programs in many fields such as culture, economics, education, and health. Especially, after the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) came into effect, the commercial cooperation relationship between the two countries has developed.

EVFTA is an opportunity for Vietnamese businesses to expand their markets to European countries, including Germany. On the contrary, this is also an opportunity for German businesses to invest in Vietnam to set up company thanks to policies to attract and preferential investment commitments.

Germany is the world’s leading technologically developed country and an integral part of the global supply chain. Germany also has many strict requirements on the quality of goods and the environmental friendliness of products, which requires Vietnam to improve production quality and use environmentally friendly products/materials. With the signing of the EVFTA, Vietnam and Germany will have more favorable conditions for technology exchange and investment, which will help trade cooperation between the two countries more developed.

Before 2014, Vietnamese goods exported to Germany were the least polluted category, including agricultural products, wood products, processed foods, beverages, garments, footwear and glassware. Since 2014, the export of machinery and equipment to Germany began to increase and became the item with the highest export turnover. After EVFTA, Vietnam will increase exports of footwear, textiles and agricultural products such as coffee, tea, pepper and rubber and will import many products related to processing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals.

In addition, in order to improve product quality to meet import criteria into Germany and Europe, Vietnam also attracts foreign investment to develop sustainably economic sectors such as pharmaceuticals and chemicals, in order to create quality products that are qualified for domestic use and import to many countries around the world.

Currently, the number of investment projects of German investors implementing in Vietnam is not high compared to other countries such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc. This requires Vietnam to re-examine its strengths and weaknesses in order to meet the investment needs of German investors. The implementation of EVFTA, Investment Law 2020, Enterprise Law 2020 is an opportunity for international investors, including German investors to easily access Vietnam market when expanding their investment.

With many cooperation efforts between Vietnam and Germany in recent years, Vietnam hopes that in the coming years, Vietnam will be the leading destination in investment for German investors and help improve furthermore good relationship between the two countries in the future.

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