On September 25, 2021, the Government issued Decree No.85/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP dated May 16, 2013, on the e-commerce trading floor. Accordingly, this Decree has added new regulations on operation forms of e-commerce trading floors, including:

1. A website that allows its members to open booths for displaying/promoting their goods or services;
2. A website that allows its members to open accounts to carry out the conclusion of contracts with customers;
3. A website that has specific trading categories or tabs that allow its members to post listings of goods and services;
4. A social network that has one of the forms of activities as mentioned in (1), (2), (3) above and the participants directly or indirectly pay fees for the performance of such activities.

Thus, from January 1, 2022, in addition to operating forms of e-commerce trading floors through websites as before, traders and organizations will be able to conduct e-commerce activities through social networks such as Facebook, Zalo, Instagram… Then, people who directly or indirectly participate in those activities on social networking sites must pay a fee.

This Decree takes effect from January 1, 2022.