According to the Customs Department, 2025 marked many important events for the country. Vietnam Customs continues to play the role of state management of customs, accompanying businesses, creating trade facilitation, contributing to bringing Vietnam into the group of 25 economies with the largest trade value in the world.
Based on summarizing the results of task implementation, the Customs Department selected and announced 10 outstanding events of Vietnam Customs in 2025.
The Customs sector contributes to bringing Vietnam's goods import and export turnover in 2025 to reach 900 billion USD.
The Customs Department said that the total import and export turnover in 2025 for the first time exceeded the 900 billion USD mark, the highest level ever. This result is associated with the synchronous implementation of solutions to both ensure state management of customs and create trade facilitation such as reducing procedure time, simplifying administrative procedures, and removing obstacles for businesses.
The Customs sector successfully completed the task of state budget revenue in 2025 with outstanding results, reaching 468,398 billion VND.
In the context of many difficulties, the task of budget revenue collection is identified as the focus in directing and operating.
Total revenue from import and export activities from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 reached 468,398 billion VND, equal to 114% of the estimate, equal to 99.7% of the striving target, an increase of 9.3% compared to the same period in 2024.
The Customs Department drastically implements Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, streamlining the organizational structure
The Customs Department deploys organizational arrangement according to a 3-level model including the Customs Department, Regional Customs Sub-Department, Border Gate/Outside Border Gate Customs. According to announced information, the entire sector reduced by about 485/902 focal points, equivalent to 53.77%, of which 35 Provincial and City Customs Departments were reorganized into 20 Regional Customs Sub-Departments, and at the same time, units under the previous General Department agency were reorganized and Team/Group levels under provincial and city-level sub-departments were removed.
Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law: New step to create a transparent business environment
The Customs Department has proactively reviewed and advised on amending and supplementing the Customs Law in the direction of removing legal bottlenecks, increasing convenience for businesses, including priority mechanisms for high-tech enterprises and semiconductor industries.
The amended content was approved and included in Law No. 90/2025/QH15, creating a legal basis for on-the-spot import and export procedures, customs inspection and supervision for this type and the "green channel" mechanism in the direction of supporting businesses.
Signing of the Customs Cooperation Agreement between Vietnam and the United Kingdom
On October 29, 2025, the Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Government of Vietnam, signed an Agreement on cooperation and administrative support in the customs sector with the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The agreement is an important legal basis to strengthen bilateral cooperation in information exchange, combating smuggling, trade fraud and facilitating legitimate trade, contributing to promoting economic and trade relations between the two countries.
For the first time, the Customs Department presides over advising the Ministry of Finance to submit to the Government for promulgation Resolution No. 379/NQ-CP dated December 5, 2025 - an important document orienting the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and intellectual property infringement to 2030.
This is a milestone clearly showing the core role of the Customs force in the cause of protecting national sovereign interests.
The Customs Department stated that in 2025, the situation of smuggling, counterfeit goods, and intellectual property infringement with serious nature emerged. On that basis, the Customs agency presided over advising on the development of an action plan and submitting to the Government for promulgation a resolution on the direction of combat work until 2030, as a basis for ministries, branches, and localities to implement according to their functions and tasks.
Tightening the control and fight against smuggling, trade fraud and intellectual property, and drug prevention.
This activity has achieved impressive results, especially in the peak month nationwide fighting against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods launched by the Prime Minister according to Official Dispatch No. 65/CD-TTg and Directive No. 13/CT-TTg.
From December 15, 2024 to December 14, 2025, the Customs agency discovered, arrested and handled 19,123 cases, the value of violating goods is estimated at 22,826 billion VND; collected 1,038 billion VND to the budget; prosecuted 22 cases, transferred to other agencies to propose prosecution of 127 cases. In drug prevention and control work in the same period, 204 cases with 295 subjects were detected, seizing about 2.68 tons of drugs of all kinds.
In the peak month from May 15 to June 15, 2025, the Customs force discovered 1,593 cases, estimated value of 3,901 billion VND; issued 2,780 sanctioning decisions; collected and remitted 19.4 billion VND to the budget; prosecuted 4 cases, transferred and prosecuted 13 cases; total amount collected and remitted to the budget was 76.6 billion VND.
Successfully organized the first Party Congress of the Customs Department, term 2025-2030
According to the announced information, the Party Committee of the Customs Department issued a plan to organize congresses at all levels, determining the content of congresses for newly established party committees and party cells after arranging the apparatus, including summarizing the 2020-2025 term and contributing opinions on draft documents.
On June 23 and 24, 2025, the Party Committee of the Customs Department organized the 1st Congress of Delegates, term 2025-2030 with 250 official delegates, representing 1,248 party members, unifying targets and tasks and identifying key tasks and breakthrough tasks in the new term.
Vietnam Customs celebrates 80 years of construction and development, receives the First-class Military Exploit Medal and commends advanced examples
In 2025, the Customs sector organized the 80th Anniversary of Traditional Day. On this occasion, the Customs Department was honored to be awarded the First-class Military Exploit Medal by the Party and State for its outstanding contributions to the cause of building and protecting the Fatherland.
The series of commemorative activities is organized solemnly and practically, contributing to educating traditions, arousing pride, sense of responsibility and dedication of generations of Customs officials and civil servants.
Resolutely implementing Resolution 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo, the Customs Department has built and put into operation many information technology products.
The Customs Department has consolidated the organization and direction of digital transformation, issued a deployment plan, associated with Project 06, and at the same time promoted training and fostering to serve system management and operation.
Many information technology products have been put into operation such as electronic customs clearance system version 6, AVP-eCom, Data Customs, automatic channeling function, declaration lookup and centralized operating system, thereby increasing the level of digitization, automation of nghiep vu, improving transparency, shortening processing time, and supporting businesses to monitor declaration status online.
