The Vietnam Customs Statistics announced that in the first half of February-2023, Vietnam’s total exports of US dollars 13.44 billion and imports of US dollars 12.38 billion resulted in a trade surplus of nearly US dollars 1.07 billion. Accordingly, the total value of export and import turnover of Vietnam in the first half of February was US dollars 25.82 billion, went up by 42.8% (equal to USD 7.74 billion) as compared to the second half of January-2023.
Vietnam‘s trade-in-goods from January to the first half of February of 2023 totaled US dollars 72.32 billion in value terms. It posted a decrease of 13.7% (equivalent to USD 11.46 billion) from the same period of previous year.
In the view of FDI traders, the total value of exportation and importation in the first 2 months of 2023 reached USD 51.8 billion respectively, down by 11.5% as compared to the same period of 2022.
Export:
When compared with the second half of January-2023, export of first half of February up by 49% mostly as a result of the upward registered in computer, electrical products (up by 53.9% – USD 718 million equally); machine, equipment, tools and instruments (up by 47.7% – USD 560 million); textiles and garments (up by 77.9% – USD 528 million equally).
Chart 1: Main exported commodities of Vietnam From Jan to Feb 15th 2023 as compared to same period of 2022
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Import:
In the first half of February 2023, import increased by 36.6% when compared with second half of January, mainly reflecting the widen of computer, electrical products (up by 24.6% – USD 645 million equally); machine, tools and equipments (up by 43.9% – USD 465 million equally); plastics (up by 100.2% – USD 203 million equally).
Chart 2: Main imported commodities of Vietnam From Jan to Feb 15th 2023 as compared to same period of 2022
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Source: Vietnam Customs