In the first 5 months of the year, total import and export turnover reached nearly 356 billion USD.

Import and export of goods in the first 5 months of 2025 reached nearly 356 billion USD.
*Source: General Statistics Office ( Ministry of Finance )*

In May, total import and export turnover of goods reached 78.64 billion USD, up 5.8% over the previous month and up 15.5% over the same period last year.

In the first 5 months of 2025, the total import and export turnover of goods reached 355.79 billion USD, up 15.7% over the same period last year, of which exports increased by 14%; imports increased by 17.5%. The trade balance of goods had a surplus of 4.67 billion USD.

Regarding exports, data from the General Statistics Office shows that in May 2025, Vietnam's total export turnover of goods reached 39.6 billion USD, up 5.7% compared to April and up 17% compared to the same period in 2024. In the first 5 months of 2025, export turnover reached 180.23 billion USD, up 14% over the same period last year.

The foreign-invested economic sector (including crude oil) continued to play a key role, reaching 130.61 billion USD, up 14.5%, accounting for 72.5% of total export turnover.

Meanwhile, the domestic economic sector reached 49.62 billion USD, up 12.5%, accounting for 27.5% of the market share. In May alone, the FDI sector increased sharply by 20.1% compared to the previous month, while the domestic economic sector decreased by 26.1%.

In the first 5 months of the year, there were 25 export items with a turnover of over 1 billion USD, accounting for 90% of total export turnover; of which 7 items reached over 5 billion USD, contributing up to 67.3%.

The export structure still focuses mainly on processed industrial products with a turnover of 158.93 billion USD, accounting for 88.2%. Agricultural and forestry products reached 15.88 billion USD (8.8%), aquatic products reached 4.21 billion USD (2.3%) and fuel and minerals reached 1.21 billion USD (0.7%).

Regarding export markets, the United States continues to be the largest partner with a turnover of 57.2 billion USD in the first 5 months of the year.

Trade surplus to the EU reached 16.3 billion USD (up 16%) and to Japan reached 0.9 billion USD (up 74.8%).

Total import turnover of goods in May 2025 reached 39.04 billion USD, up 5.9% compared to April and up 14.1% compared to the same period in 2024. Cumulatively in the first 5 months of the year, import turnover reached 175.56 billion USD, up 17.5% over the same period last year.

The group of production materials continued to account for a large proportion of imports, reaching 164.75 billion USD (93.8%), of which the group of machinery, equipment, tools and spare parts accounted for 51.2% and the group of raw materials, fuels and materials accounted for 42.6%. The group of consumer goods reached 10.81 billion USD, equivalent to 6.2% of total import turnover.

The trade balance of goods in May 2025 had a trade surplus of 0.56 billion USD, a slight decrease compared to April. In the first 5 months of the year, Vietnam had a trade surplus of 4.67 billion USD, significantly lower than the trade surplus of 8.71 billion USD in the same period in 2024.

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