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Update news duty-free goods

Local authorities try to revive border economic zones

In March 2018, the policy on preferences in buying and selling duty-free goods was removed, and many sales at border economic zones (Ezs) then stopped.

New policies take effect in November

 VietNamNet Bridge – Regulations on business registration, real estate business, medium-term forest protection, visa exemption for Vietnamese expatriates, and female labor are among new polices that take effect in November.

Border shops shut down as tax incentives are removed

 VietNamNet Bridge – Companies trading in duty-free goods at the country’s border gates in Tay Ninh and An Giang provinces have shut down business there as preferential tax policies have been removed since early this year.