Viet Nam’s fruit and vegetable export turnover in May was estimated at 614.79 million USD, unchanged from the same period last year, according to the Department of Customs.

The goal of raising Viet Nam’s agricultural, forestry, and fishery export turnover to around 95–100 billion USD by 2030 is an ambitious one, but it is achievable if the country remains committed to a development strategy built on three pillars: modern markets, strong brands, and green and digital value chains.

Viet Nam’s total foreign trade value reached 155.7 billion USD in the first two months of 2026, up 22.2% year-on-year, while the country recorded a trade deficit of 2.98 billion USD, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Finance.

In January 2026, total goods export turnover reached 43.19 billion USD, up 29.7% year on year.

In 2025, the durian sector marked a leap in growth, with export turnover reaching approximately 4 billion USD, accounting for nearly 50% of the country’s total fruit and vegetable export value.

Viet Nam’s seafood export turnover reached approximately 9.31 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2025, up around 12.9% from the same period last year. However, the sector is expected to face a number of challenges and difficulties in the remaining months of the year.

In the first nine months of 2025, Viet Nam’s total textile and garment export turnover reached nearly 34.8 billion USD, an increase of more than 7.7% compared with the same period in 2024. This is an impressive figure amid many unfavourable market developments. The achievement has laid a solid foundation for the industry to reach its export target of 48 billion USD.

Japan remained Viet Nam’s third-largest export market for agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products during the first half of 2025, following the US and China. While exports to China declined by 0.7% in value, shipments to Japan rose by 25.5%, opening up new opportunities for Vietnamese agribusinesses.

In the first six months of 2025, Viet Nam’s fruit export turnoversharply declined after two consecutive years of strong growth. The sector needs a strategy to enhance competitive advantages, focusing on potential products that are on track to reach and surpass the one-billion-USD mark, such as bananas, pineapples, coconuts, and passion fruit.

Viet Nam’s coffee exports reached 5.45 billion USD with 953,900 tonnes in the first six months of 2025, nearly equal to the whole year of 2024’s turnover of 5.48 billion USD. Maintaining traditional markets and increasing the export of deeply processed coffee are solutions for this industry to reach the target of 7 billion USD for the whole year of 2025.

Vietnam has issued a national action plan on building a transparent, responsible and sustainable food and food stuff system to 2030, with a goal of maintaining the export turnover of over 30 billion USD each year.

The fifth Republic of Korea-Vietnam Seminar for the Future was held in Seoul on November 10, attracting 200 participants.

The export turnover of aquatic products topped 8.5 billion USD in the first nine months of 2022, up 38% year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).