Since surpassing mainland China as the largest source of the US trade deficit for the first time in the first half of this year, Vietnam has continued to maintain its leading edge, and the scale of foreign trade reached a record high in the first 8 months. According to data recently released by Vietnam's National Bureau of Statistics, in the first eight months of 2026, Vietnam's total import and export volume of goods reached 770.14 billion US dollars, the highest in the same period in history, with a year-on-year increase of 28.7%. Among them, exports increased 22.4% year on year to reach 374.84 billion US dollars; imports increased 35.3% year on year to reach 395.3 billion US dollars, and the deficit widened further, exceeding 20 billion US dollars. In the same period of 2025, Vietnam maintained a trade surplus of 14.02 billion US dollars.

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