The Prime Minister has just issued Decree 40/2025, stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, effective from March 1.
Notably, the model of the General Department of Market Management (QLTT) also ended from March 1. Instead, the Department of Domestic Market Management and Development will be established on the basis of the functions, tasks, and apparatus of the General Department of Market Management and the Domestic Market Department.
Market management agencies at all levels continue to perform their functions, tasks and powers according to current legal regulations until transferring the Provincial Market Management Department under the General Department of Market Management to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade transferred the status quo of the Provincial Market Management Department under the General Department of Market Management to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to establish a Market Management Department under the Department of Industry and Trade before June 1.
Previously, on August 10, 2018, the Prime Minister signed and issued Decision 34/2018/QD-TTg stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the General Department of Market Management under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The decision takes effect from October 12, 2018.
The General Department of Market Management is organized into a vertical sector system from the central to local levels, ensuring the direction, leadership and management of the Minister of Industry and Trade according to the principle of unified focus.
Immediately after the Prime Minister signed and issued Decision 34/2018/QD-TTg, the Ministry of Industry and Trade coordinated with the People's Committees of provinces and cities to urgently implement the plan to transfer the status quo of local market management agencies. The Department is organized into a provincial-level Department (63 Departments) and maintains the model of a district-level Market Management Team to ensure stable operations of local market management agencies in the first phase of the establishment of the General Department.
Thus, after nearly 7 years of establishment and operation, the model of the General Department of Market Management will officially end on March 1.
According to Decree No. 40/2025/ND-CP stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has 19 affiliated units assisting the Minister in State management, including:
The Department of Planning, Finance and Business Management; the Department of Overseas Market Development; the Department of Multilateral Trade Policy; the Department of Oil and Gas and Coal; the Department of Organization and Personnel; the Department of Legal Affairs; Ministry Inspectorate; Ministry Office; National Competition Commission; Department of Domestic Market Management and Development; Department of Electricity; Department of Innovation, Green Transformation and Industrial Promotion; Department of Industry, Department of Trade Defense; Department of Trade Promotion; Department of Import-Export; Department of Industrial Safety and Environmental Engineering; Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy; Department of Chemicals.
In addition, there are 3 public service units including the Institute for Strategy and Policy Research on Industry and Trade; Industry and Trade Newspaper and Industry and Trade Magazine.
Thus, the number of units in the organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade decreased from 28 to 22 units.
