Business Activities Reserved for Lao Nationals are types of businesses that are long operated by Lao people and tribes, which are business activities that do not require high level of knowledge or big amount of capital for doing business or some business activities that the government has an aim to reserve because they are important, crucial or unique for the nation and always being together with Lao people in order to create jobs, create incomes and for a better standard of living for Lao people. Lao nationals refer to natural persons described in the Law of Nationality. Gathering of non-wood forest products refer to gathering of wild growing forest product and plants, such as mushrooms, truffles, berries, nuts etc.
"Business Activities Reserved for Lao Nationals (Revised): 
- Gathering of non-wood forest products (reserved specifically for the exploitation of natural medicines) […]" (Notification 1328/MOIC, List C 02-2015)
Notification 1328/MOIC, 13 July 2015, List C 02-2015.
[<a href="http://www.laotradeportal.gov.la/kcfinder/upload/files/MOIC_1328_2015_Eng.pdf">Notification</a>]