According to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) - Ministry of Planning and Investment, foreign enterprises’ registered capital in 2008 was estimated to reach USD 64 billion including new-registered projects and expanded operating projects, in which capital for new-registered projects was USD 60.2 billion, executed capital reached over USD 11 billion.
However, in the context of crisis situation, capital cost has become higher and export market can be narrowed down, so capital flow to Viet Nam may decrease. Moreover, most of investment projects in general and FDI in particular have utilized a great proportion of borrowed fund out of the total capital. Therefore, the difficulties of the credit institutions and banks will result in the failure for signing or disbursement of loan contracts. This is the reason why executed capital in 2008 was low, accounting for only about 17.2% of the registered capital. From December of 2008, a downward trend in newly invested capital has appeared. Most of foreign investors are from Asia (13% from Japan and 67% from other Asian countries), the investors from Europe and the US account for a rather small proportion, about 5% of the registered capital