In a press briefing held by the Ministry of Science and Technology on December 1, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Head of Quality Management at the ministry’s Department of Information Technology Industry, introduced that in November 2025, the ministry issued 6 circulars guiding the implementation of the Law on Digital Technology Industry that may take impact on January 1, 2026.
Circular 26/2025/TT-BKHCN outlines rules on the import and processing of products listed as prohibited for import in the class of used info expertise merchandise.
Accordingly, import of sure items from the banned checklist for 3 functions: particular use, scientific analysis, and making a mechanism for home enterprises to course of used info expertise items (from the banned checklist) for overseas merchants is allowed, supplied that these merchandise will probably be consumed overseas solely and never circulated in Vietnam.
For the group of products imported for particular functions, the Circular specifies six circumstances the place import is permitted.
Meanwhile, Circular 30/2025/TT-BKHCN, which units standards for importing used expertise strains, tools, equipment, and instruments for 2 circumstances: (i) immediately serving semiconductor chip manufacturing, packaging, and testing initiatives; and (ii) coaching, analysis, and growth of digital expertise services and products.
Under Circular 31/2025/TT-BKHCN, an inventory of key digital expertise services and products, with 10 key product-service teams, together with synthetic intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud computing, quantum computing, huge knowledge, and several other different core expertise teams, is printed.
Of these services and products, semiconductor chips, together with specialised chips, AI chips, and IoT chips, are labeled as a particular funding precedence group.
According to Mr. Tuan, this classification is a brand new “unprecedented” incentive coverage to encourage companies to speculate in pioneering expertise fields.
Circular 32/2025/TT-BKHCN issued an inventory of semiconductor supplies, tools, equipment, and instruments inspired for funding and growth, aiming to advertise the manufacturing of enter supplies, supplies, and tools for the semiconductor business, that are important parts to kind a complete semiconductor ecosystem.
Circular 33/2025/TT-BKHCN stipulates 4 standards for enterprises implementing digital tools manufacturing initiatives to get pleasure from company revenue tax incentives.
Circular 34/2025/TT-BKHCN regulates digital expertise services and products that get pleasure from contractor choice incentives in renting, buying digital expertise services and products utilizing state funds capital. Accordingly, merchandise assembly the standards will get pleasure from bidding incentives in utilizing state funds capital.