Vietnam ranked 23rd among the world's top 30 largest exporters with a total export turnover reaching US$354 billion last year, accounting for 1.5% of the global export earnings, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Vietnam posted a trade surplus of 23.31 billion USD during January-October, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment's General Statistics Office (GSO).

Total trade value reached $578.5 billion by September, marking a significant achievement for the economy.

Vietnam’s import-export value is likely to touch the 800 billion USD mark by year-end, far exceeding a record of 732 billion USD seen in 2022, economic expert Dinh Trong Thinh has said.

Vietnam is expected to maintain a trade surplus for the ninth consecutive year in 2024, given its export growth in the remainders of the year equal to that during January-July, according to experts.

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of 14.08 billion USD in the first seven months of this year, the General Statistics Office announced on July 29.

For the seven-month period, exports totalled $226.98 billion, up by 15.7 per cent, in which the domestic sector accounted for 27.8 per cent and the foreign-invested sector (including crude oil) accounted for 27.2 per cent.

Vietnam still enjoyed a trade surplus of US$28 billion despite a fall in trade exchanges in 2023, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said in a report released in Hanoi on December 29.

Vietnam’s total trade with European and American markets is estimated to decrease by 9.5% year-on-year to around 208 billion USD in 2023, but the country still enjoys a trade surplus of 125 billion USD.

Vietnam maintained a positive trade balance of US$3 billion in October, raising the country’s total trade surplus during January – October 2023 to more than US$24.6 billion, the highest in five years.

As of October 15, Viet Nam’s total export and import value hit US$523 billion, figures of the General Department of Customs showed.

With the import-export value from January to mid-October reaching roughly US$523 billion, Vietnam racked up a balance of trade surplus of US$22.54 billion, according to the latest statistics released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Vietnam slipped into a trade deficit of US$6.4 billion with the Republic of Korea (RoK) during the first quarter of the year, representing a fall of 39.3% year on year, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in the RoK.

Vietnam ran a trade surplus of 4.07 billion USD in the first quarter this year, with 79.17 billion USD in export revenue and 75.1 billion USD in imports, down 11.9% and 14.7% annually, respectively, reported the General Statistics Office on March 29.

With the country's total import-export turnover reaching nearly US$123 billion between January 1 and March 15, the nation enjoyed a trade surplus of roughly US$3 billion, according to figures released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

A year since Vietnam reopened after a global pandemic, the country has seen trade recovering strongly.

Vietnam’s trade with 11 other major Asian markets could rise significantly in value by 2030, according to an industry study released by UPS.

Vietnam’s merchandise trade with Asia reached 475.29 billion USD in 2022, increasing by 9.6% compared to 2021 and accounting for the highest proportion (65.1%) in the country's total import-export value.

Data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade shows the US and China are the two largest trading partners of Vietnam.