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Imports for investment and production seen supporting long-term growth: NSO

Vietnam recorded trade deficits of 1.78 billion USD in January, 1.01 billion USD in February, 680 million USD in March, 3.99 billion USD in April and 5.21 billion USD in May, bringing the cumulative deficit in the first five months of 2026 to 13.8 billion USD.

OP-ED: Decree 46 - Not proof of distorted “systemic failure”

Temporary suspensions, adjustments, or revisions of newly enacted policies are never ideal and should be minimised. Yet such course corrections occur worldwide, irrespective of a country's development stage or market-economy maturity. What counts is rapid remediation to contain losses, extraction of lessons to prevent recurrence, and firm resistance to the dissemination of misleading or hostile allegations, which will help both enforcers and those subject to compliance maintain clarity and composure.

Making logistics the backbone of the economy

Vietnam’s Logistics Services Development Strategy for the 2025–2035 period, with a vision to 2050, for the first time outlines a long-term and comprehensive roadmap clearly defining logistics as the “backbone” of the national economy.

Vietnam’s trade in services surpasses 70 billion USD in 2025

For the whole of 2025, service export turnover was estimated at 30.31 billion USD, up 18.9% year on year.

Vietnam’s trade turnover tops 900 billion USD for first time

Vietnam's total trade in 2025 reached about 920 billion USD, up 16.9% year on year. Of the total, exports were valued at 470.59 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%, while imports amounted to 449.41 billion USD, up 18%, resulting in a trade surplus of around 21.2 billion USD.