FDI JUMPS MORE THAN 50 PER CENT IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 2025
Foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in Vietnam showed divergent trends in the first five months of 2025. While newly registered capital declined, adjusted investments, capital contributions, and share purchases surged – driving overall foreign investment inflows. In the first five months of 2025, Vietnam reported $18.4 billion in FDI, an increase of 51 per cent on-year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Finance.
AGRICULTURAL LAND TAX EXEMPTION MOTIVATES BUSINESS
Extending exemptions for agricultural land use tax is expected to create motivation for businesses to expand and renovate their investments in Vietnam. The government has proposed that agricultural land use continue to be exempted from taxation through to 2030, according to a draft resolution on the issue submitted in mid-May to the National Assembly (NA).
INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERTAKINGS UNLOCKED VIA PRIVATE FUNDING
Last week, THACO Group expressed its desire to invest in the North-South high-speed railway. The company will contribute 20 per cent of the total capital, nearly $12.27 billion, through equity and legally mobilised domestic capital. The remaining amount, around $50 billion, will be borrowed from domestic and foreign credit institutions that the government guarantee and support all loan interest for 30 years, secured by assets formed from the project.
AI BECOMES LOGISTICS GAME-CHANGER
At a seminar on sustainable development of logistics in the 4.0 era in Hanoi at the end of April, organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Vu Khac Anh, director of cross-border e-commerce company Pervasel, said that his business currently processes around one million orders in the US market. “With a global operational scale, technology is indispensable in all aspects of management. From human resource management, advertising, logistics, to customer service, everything must be digitised,” explained Anh.
VIETNAM’S TOTAL TRADE VALUE HITS OVER US$355 BLN IN FIVE MONTHS
Vietnam’s total export-import turnover hit US$355.79 billion in the first five months of 2025, marking a 15.7 percent increase compared to the same period last year, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported. The country's export earnings grew by 5.7 percent, while its import turnover rose by 17.5 percent, resulting in a trade surplus of US$4.67 billion in the period.
INFOGRAPHIC SOCIAL-ECONOMIC SITUATION IN MAY AND THE FIRST 5 MONTHS OF 2025
The monthly statistical data presents current economic and social statistics on a variety of subjects illustrating crucial economic trends and developments, including production of agriculture, forestry and fishery, business registration situation, investment, government revenues and expenditures, trade, prices, transport and tourism and so on.
IMPORT-EXPORT BUDGET REVENUE HITS VNĐ182.52 TRILLION
The total budget revenue from import-export activities in the first five months of 2025 reached nearly VNĐ182.52 trillion (over US$7 billion), equivalent to 44.4 per cent of the annual estimate and up 9.2 per cent over the same period last year, according to newly released statistics from the General Department of Customs.
SEAFOOD EXPORTS RISE SHARPLY IN FIRST FIVE MONTHS
Việt Nam’s seafood export revenue reached US$4.07 billion in the first five months of 2025, marking a 14 per cent increase compared to last year. China, the United States and Japan remained the country’s top three seafood export markets, accounting for 20 per cent, 16 per cent, and 15 per cent of total exports, respectively. Shrimp and tra fish continued to be the country’s key exports.
