In the first 6 months of 2025, total import and export turnover increased by 16.1%

In 6 months, total import and export turnover increased by 16.1%. Photo: Hoang Hanh

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 export and import 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-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% over the same period in 2024; while import turnover reached 36.66 billion USD, down 6.1% compared to the previous month and up 20% over 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-invested sector (FDI) 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, a slight increase of 0.4% compared to the previous month but a decrease of 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 reaching 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 account 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