Investors have the right to repatriate profit and other legally owned income.
Laws and regulations will not be applied retroactively if they adversely affect investor's interests. The government guarantees foreign exchange conversion for revenue from infrastructure projects, those which produce substitutes for imports and other important projects. Vietnam belongs to several international conventions, including the New York Convention on the recognition and enforcement of foreign awards, the Paris Convention and Stockholm Convention on patents and the Madrid Convention on trade mark registration. As of February 1998, Vietnam is a signatory to bilateral investment promotion and protection agreements with more than 38 countries.