The country's export earnings grew by 14% while its imports rose by 17.5%, resulting in a trade surplus of 4.67 billion USD during the five-month period.

Vietnam's total import-export turnover reached 267.89 billion USD in the first four months of 2025, marking an increase of 15.7% year-on-year.

Thanks to efforts to intensify in-depth trade promotion, and maintain and expand export markets, the export turnover of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre hit over 1.2 billion USD in the first three quarters of 2024, up 14.02% year-on-year, and equivalent to 70% of the yearly plan.

Ho Chi Minh City continued to lead the country in terms of export earnings in 2023 with 42.46 billion USD, although this result still decreased by 10.8% compared to 2022, according to the Vietnam Import-Export Report 2023 announced by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s Agency for Foreign Trade on May 16.

Foreign firms contributed 259.95 billion USD or 73.1% of Vietnam’s total export revenue in 2023, statistics show.

Agriculture remains a bright spot in the overall gloomy export picture in the first five months of this year, with agro-forestry-aquaculture export turnover in May rising 9.5% month-on-month and 8.5% year-on-year to reach 2.9 billion USD.

Vietnam’s export-import turnover hit an estimated over 108.5 billion USD in the first two months of 2022, up 13 percent compared to the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on February 28.

Businesses of the northern province of Thai Binh have rolled out numerous solutions to bolster production in response to a call of local authorities, towards fulfilling the goal of a gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate of 13 percent in remaining months of 2021.

The agriculture sector is set to earn 41 billion USD from export in 2021, according to Vu Ba Phu, head of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Total inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam amounted to 38.02 billion USD this year to December 20, a 10-year high, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The customs sector collected over 284.2 trillion VND (12.14 billion USD) in taxes as of November 30, a year-on-year rise of 7.27 percent.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang earned over 468 million USD from exports in the first nine months of the year, up nearly 35 percent year-on-year and over 90 percent of its planned annual total, reported the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.

Vietnam’s import-export turnover is estimated to reach 25.9 billion USD in February, a decrease of 35.7 percent from the previous month, reported the General Department of Customs on February 28.

The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre aims to generate 400 million USD from exports in the second half of 2017, according to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.

The northern province of Quang Ninh earned 749 million USD from exports in the first half of 2017, 45.3 percent of its yearly goal.

Thailand’s export turnover hit 19.94 billion USD in May, up 13.2 percent year-on-year, reported the Trade Policy and Strategy Office under the Ministry of Commerce.

The project “Vietnam’s Supporting Industries to Europe” has improved manufacturing capacity of the sector after three years of implementation.

Vietnam’s farmed seafood output is likely to reach 4.7 million tonnes with export earnings expected to hit 30-35 billion USD by 2030.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has earned record export revenue this year, said Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Ngo Van Tuan.

Vietnam’s total export earnings hit 13 billion USD in February, raising the total in the first two months of this year to 27.3 billion USD, up 15.4 percent annually, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).