
1. Conditions for obtaining a license to trade in civilian cryptographic products.
- Personnel requirements: A minimum of 3 engineers with degrees in one of the following fields: electronics and telecommunications, information technology, mathematics, or information security (this is the most important requirement).
- Executive and management personnel meet the professional requirements for information security and safety.
- The business has facilities and equipment suitable for its scale.
- There is a technical solution that conforms to the standards and technical regulations applicable to civilian cryptographic products and services.
- There are business plans for civilian cryptographic products and services.
2. Application dossier for a license to trade in civilian cryptographic products.
- The application for a license must be submitted using the form prescribed in Decree No. 211/2025/ND-CP.
- A copy of the Business Registration Certificate or equivalent legal entity certificate.
- Copies of university degrees and relevant security and information safety certifications for the technical team and management staff.
- Technical proposal (describing the technical characteristics of the product, service quality, and technical solution)
- Network security measures for providing civilian cryptographic products and services.
- Business plan for civilian cryptographic products and services.
- Warranty and maintenance plan for products supplied to the market.



3. Import and export license for civilian cryptographic products
After obtaining a business license for civilian cryptographic products and services, the enterprise prepares a dossier to apply for an import license for civilian cryptographic products, which includes:
- Application for an import license
- Copy of the Civil Cryptography Product Business License
- A copy of the certificate of conformity for civilian cryptographic equipment with IP stream security features using IPSec or TLS technology (currently not mandatory).


Specifically, civilian cryptographic products subject to export and import licenses include:
- 84.43: Printing machines using printing parts such as printing plates (type plates), printing cylinders and other printing parts of group 84.42; other printing machines, copying machines and fax machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof.
- 84.71: Automatic data processing machines and their functional units; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transmitting data onto data transmission media in encoded form and machines for processing such data, not specified or included elsewhere.
- 84.73: Parts and accessories (excluding housings, containers and similar items) used solely or mainly with machines of headings 84.70 to 84.72.
- 85.17: Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular or other wireless networks; other equipment for transmitting or receiving sound, images or other data, including wired or wireless networked telecommunications equipment (such as that used in local area networks or wide area networks), excluding transmitting or receiving equipment of headings 84.43, 85.25, 85.27 or 85.28.
- 85.23: Discs, tapes, solid-state persistent storage devices, “smart cards” and other information storage media for recording sound or other content, whether or not recorded, including templates and originals for the production of recordings on discs, but excluding products of Chapter 37.
- 85.25: Transmitting devices for radio or television broadcasting, whether or not fitted with sound receiving or recording or reproducing devices; television cameras, digital cameras and video cameras.
- 85.26: Radar, radio navigation devices and radio remote control devices.
- 85.28: Screens and projectors, not attached to television receivers; television receivers, whether or not attached to radio receivers or sound or image recording or reproduction devices.
- 85.29: Parts used exclusively or mainly with equipment of headings 85.24 to 85.28.
- 85.42: Integrated electronic circuits.
- 85.43: Electrical machines and equipment, having a specific function, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter.
See details in Decree 32/2023/ND-CP, effective from June 9, 2023.
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