BridgeSolve · UK–Vietnam market intelligence
Vietnam Trade Explorer
Goods imports, exports and the difference between them. See the whole economy, then explore the products and countries behind the numbers.
2025 national overview
All goods · all countries · official preliminary figuresNational context, separate from the filters below. Growth rates as published by Vietnam’s National Statistics Office. Compare 2024 and 2025
2019–2023 comparable evidence
Explore Vietnam’s trade
Start with all goods, then search a product sector or choose a trade partner.
50 partners, listed A–Z, selected by 2023 total trade; 55 searchable sectors. “All countries” and “All goods” use reported worldwide and economy-wide totals.
Selected trade summary
Imports, exports and balance
Trade trend to selected year
Imports versus exports
ImportsExports
Vietnam-reported goods trade for the current selection. Values are nominal US dollars; gaps represent unavailable observations.
Supplier landscape
Leading origins
Bar length = share of worldwide imports for this product. Leading origins are drawn from the 50 listed partners.
Export destinations
Where exports go
Bar length = share of worldwide exports for this product. Leading destinations are drawn from the 50 listed partners.
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Sector breakdown
Explore 55 major product sectors
Ranked by total trade.
Reading the comparison
Read the trade flows in context
Imports and exports can reflect production chains as well as final demand. Neither trade value nor a surplus establishes profitability or local value added.
External requirement
Imports exceed exports. This can indicate domestic demand or dependence on foreign energy, materials, machinery or finished goods.
Integrated supply chain
Large imports and exports can show components or materials entering Vietnam before processing, assembly and re-export.
Competitive production base
Exports exceed imports. Imported inputs may still be commercially important, but the headline is not an unserved domestic market.
National context · 2024–2025
Trade momentum
Imports and exports both grew. The goods surplus narrowed. These national figures complement the detailed explorer; product and country filters do not apply here.
Goods trade · US$ billion
ImportsExports
2024
Imports$380.76bn
Exports$405.53bn
Trade balance+$24.77bn
2025
Imports$455.01bn
Exports$475.04bn
Trade balance+$20.03bn
Year-on-year growth as published by NSO
2024: imports +16.7% · exports +14.3%
2025: imports +19.4% · exports +17.0%
Figures use each year’s NSO annual release. Later releases revise earlier years: the 2025 release reports a revised 2024 surplus of $24.94bn. Published growth rates therefore need not exactly match a calculation using the earlier 2024 totals shown above.
Share of goods imports; an important reminder that imports often support production.
Share of goods exports; exports alone do not measure domestic value added.
Vietnam’s largest supplier market by goods value.
Vietnam’s largest buyer market by goods value.
Sources: NSO 2024 annual release · NSO 2025 annual release
Why does the explorer stop at 2023?The current detailed extract is a consistent 2019–23 series of products and partners. Newer national figures are available and shown here; they do not supply every comparable country–product observation. Extending the detailed filters requires a separate coverage and classification check, rather than substituting national totals.
Decision standard
Direct evidence before interpretation
BridgeSolve uses this report to identify the next question—not to declare a market attractive from trade value alone.
One consistent selection
Reported all-goods totals plus 55 major HS2 sectors, covering 95.0% of imports and 93.6% of exports in 2023. Show 20, 50 or all available sectors from this catalogue.
No black-box score
Imports, exports, balance, growth and partner shares are shown directly. The value-chain role is labelled as interpretation.
Commercial next step
Move to HS6/HS8, distinguish inputs from finished products, then test tariffs, standards, local competition, buyers and unit economics.
Sources and limitations +
Core sources
- UN Comtrade — Vietnam imports and exports by HS2, year and partner, 2019–2023; sector and all-goods observations accessed 3 October 2026.
- Vietnam National Statistics Office · 2023.
- Vietnam National Statistics Office · 2024.
- Vietnam National Statistics Office · 2025.
- Vietnam Trade Information Portal — official HS-based procedures and requirements.
Important limitations
Import value measures foreign supply entering Vietnam—not total market size, unmet demand, margin or accessible sales. Processing trade and re-exports may be present.
The country selector covers the top 50 countries and reporting areas by Vietnam’s combined 2023 goods imports and exports, including the United Kingdom. The same partner set is used across 2019–2023. World, unspecified areas and aggregate regions are excluded from the ranking. Bilateral observations accessed 3 October 2026. All countries uses worldwide totals; selecting one country shows Vietnam-reported imports from and exports to that partner. All goods uses separately reported TOTAL observations, not a sum of the displayed sectors. With all goods selected, the table shows the Explore 55 major product sectors; selecting a product switches the table to a country breakdown. Remaining partners are grouped where their combined value can be calculated. Country, year and product selections apply throughout the detailed explorer. The national overview and momentum section are explicitly separate. Both import and export growth use compound annual growth from 2019 to the selected year; balance change is the difference in US dollars. For 2019 itself, growth is unavailable and balance change is zero where both flows are known. Absent import or export observations are shown as unavailable, not assumed to be zero. Leading origin and destination charts use the selected set of 50 partners; all other origins or destinations include the rest of the worldwide total. “Other Asia, nes” follows the source classification and is not relabelled as Taiwan.
HS2 categories mix components, materials and finished goods. Nominal US-dollar growth can reflect prices, exchange rates and classification changes. All-goods totals include trade outside the 55 available sectors; broad HS2 sectors can mix materials, components and finished goods.