Preliminary assessment of Vietnam international merchandise trade performance in the second half of September, 2019

​Vietnam‘s trade-in-goods in the first 9 months of 2019 totaled US dollars 382.16 billion in value terms, climbed up by 8.4% as compared to the performance of the same period of last year.

In the view of Foreign Direct Invested (FDI) traders, the total value of exportation and importation in the first 9 months of 2019 reached USD 242.28 billion, up by 5.1% in comparison to the same period of 2018.

Export:

As compared to the first half of September-2019, second half of the month increase in the total export value (21.6% - USD 2.26 billion equally) is reflected by an upturn in computer, electrical products (up by 22.6% - USD 351 million equally); telephones, mobile phones (up by 13.1% - USD 327 million equally); textiles and garments (up by 18.2% - USD 238 million equally); machine, tools and equipments (up by 30.4% - USD 210 million equally)…

Totally, in the first 9 months of 2019 total export value from Vietnam was USD 194.65 billion, climbed up 8.4% as compared to the same period of 2018 (equivalent to USD 15.1 billion in absolute value terms).

Chart 1: Top 10 main exported commodities of first 9 months of 2019 over the same period of 2018

Import:

The first half to the second half of September slight widen in the total of import value (10.7%) reflected an upturn in machine, tools and equipments (up by 11.9% - USD 165 million equally); telephones, mobile phones (up by 16.1% - USD 122 million); petroleum products (up by 89,3% - USD 111 million equally); fabrics (up by 15.3% - USD 72 millions)…

From January to second half of September-2019, total import value into Vietnam was USD 187.5 billion, went up by 8.4% as compared to the same period of 2018 (equivalent to USD 14.45 billion in absolute value terms).

Chart 2: Top 10 main imported commodities of first 9 months of 2019 over the same period of 2018