Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked ministries and authorities to support local retailers while better managing the operations of foreign retail firms.
The retail market of Vietnam is attractive due to its large growth potential (Photo: tinnhanhchungkhoan)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked ministries andauthorities to support local retailers while better managing the operations offoreign retail firms.
Thewholesale and retail market is developing rapidly with large potential andattracting the attention of both local and foreign investors, according to arecent note from the Government Office.
Regardedas a sensitive sector, the retail market has been gradually opened to foreigninvestors following Vietnam’s international commitments. However, management offoreign retailers has proven to be inefficient while there has been a lack ofsupport for local firms to expand their distribution networks, the note said.
In the note, Dung called for management of foreign retailers to be tightened toensure compliance with the law. In addition, the expansion of distributionnetworks of foreign firms must be kept in check.
TheMinistry of Finance was directed to increase inspections of foreign wholesaleand retail firms to prevent transfer pricing and collect taxes.
TheMinistry of Industry and Trade was asked to aid local retail firms with landlease fees to promote their development.
Dung alsoasked relevant ministries to draft a decree which would replace Decree23/2007/NĐ-CP on the purchase and sale of goods by foreign-owned enterprises.
The decree should be sent to the Prime Minister within the first quarter ofthis year. Dung saidthat the new decree should encourage foreign retailers to commit todistributing locally-produced products.
With apopulation of 90 million, around 40 percent of which are urban citizens, anddouble-digit growth in total retails sales of goods and services since joiningthe World Trade Organisation in 2007, Vietnam’s retail market has been attractiveto foreign investors.
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The retail market of Vietnam is attractive due to its large growth potential (Photo: tinnhanhchungkhoan) 
