According to the General Statistics Office ( Ministry of Finance ), in the first 6 months of 2025, Vietnam's import and export activities clearly improved.
Total import and export turnover reached 432.03 billion USD, up 16.1% over the same period in 2024. Of which, export turnover reached 219.83 billion USD, up 14.4%; import turnover reached 212.2 billion USD, up 17.9%. Thanks to that, the trade balance of goods continued to maintain a trade surplus of 7.63 billion USD.
In June 2025 alone, total import and export turnover reached 76.15 billion USD, down 3.2% compared to the previous month but still up 18.1% over the same period last year.
Export turnover in June reached 39.49 billion USD, down slightly by 0.3% compared to May, up 16.3% compared to the same period in 2024; while import turnover reached 36.66 billion USD, down 6.1% compared to the previous month and up 20% compared to the same period. This result shows that the recovery and expansion of domestic production and consumption are taking place strongly.
By economic sector, the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector exported 30.85 billion USD (down 0.4% compared to the previous month but up sharply 24.4% over the same period), accounting for nearly 78.2% of total export turnover.
In contrast, the domestic economic sector reached 8.64 billion USD, up slightly by 0.4% compared to the previous month but down 5.7% compared to the same period last year. This trend continued throughout the first 6 months of the year, when the FDI sector reached 161.55 billion USD in export turnover, up 16.4%, while the domestic sector reached 58.28 billion USD, up 9.4%.
Regarding the structure of export goods, the processed industrial goods group continues to dominate, with a total turnover of 194.28 billion USD, equal to 88.4% of the total export value.
Other commodity groups such as agricultural and forestry products (19.12 billion USD, accounting for 8.7%), aquatic products (5.11 billion USD, accounting for 2.3%) and fuel - minerals (1.32 billion USD, accounting for 0.6%) only accounted for a small proportion.
In the first half of the year, 28 export items reached a value of over 1 billion USD, accounting for 91.7% of total turnover; 9 items reached over 5 billion USD, contributing 72.3%.
Although the overall trade surplus was still maintained, the trade surplus of 7.63 billion USD in the first 6 months of the year was significantly lower than the 12.15 billion USD in the same period last year.
Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/6-thang-dau-nam-2025-tong-kim-ngach-xuat-nhap-khau-tang-16-1-708117.html
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