Nhan Dan - The State's investment credit lending rate in Vietnam dong is set at 12% a year and in freely changeable foreign currencies is 7.8% a year, according to a decision issued on June 26 by the Ministry of Finance.

For projects in socio-economic infrastructural facilities, agricultural and rural development, projects in areas of great socio-economic difficulties, in Khmer-inhabited areas, communes within the 135 and 120 Programmes, the interest rates are 11.4% and 7.2% a year respectively.

The State's export credit lending interest rates in Vietnam dong is 14.4% a year and in freely changeable foreign currencies is 7.8% a year. The difference in interest rates in the post-investment period for projects with loans in Vietnam dong is 3.9% a year and in foreign currencies is 0.96%.