In the first 6 months of 2025, the US continued to be Vietnam's largest export market, with a turnover of up to 70.91 billion USD, a sharp increase of 28.3% over the same period last year. Notably, in just the two groups of shoes and textiles, traditional export industries have brought Vietnam 12.82 billion USD from this market.
Accordingly, textile and garment exports to the US reached 8.47 billion USD, up 17.1% over the same period in 2024 and accounting for 45% of the total textile and garment export turnover of the country. This continues to be the largest consumer market for Vietnam's textile and garment industry, playing a key role in the export growth of the industry. Meanwhile, shoes of all kinds exported to the US reached 4.35 billion USD, up 12.9% and accounted for more than 36% of the total value of the country's shoe exports in the same period.
Not only growing in the two main groups of goods, the US market also witnessed a strong breakthrough in many other Vietnamese goods industries. Computer, electronic products and components exported to the US reached 18.5 billion USD, up 65% over the same period, accounting for nearly half of the export turnover of this group of goods. Machinery, equipment, tools and spare parts also recorded an export value to the US of 11.31 billion USD, up 22.7%, contributing significantly to the growth of the entire manufacturing and processing industry.
Some groups of goods with a sudden growth rate in the US market such as toys, sports equipment and parts reached 2.29 billion USD, more than 3 times higher than the same period last year, accounting for 69% of the export turnover of this group of goods. Wood and wood products reached 4.56 billion USD, up 11.8% and accounted for more than half of the total export turnover of the industry group. The export of vegetables and fruits to the US, although only reaching 262 million USD, also recorded an increase of 65%, showing that efforts to expand market share in one of the most demanding markets in the world are effective.
In the first 6 months, Vietnam's total export turnover reached 219.86 billion USD, up 14.5% over the same period. The US market alone contributes up to 56% of the total increase in export turnover of the country, becoming an important growth driver in the context of some traditional markets such as China, ASEAN or the EU slowing down or reducing orders for some agricultural products.
In the positive export picture of the first half of the year, the US not only continues to maintain its role as Vietnam's largest consumer market, but also emerges as a stable and attractive market with diverse import demand, ranging from consumer goods to high technology. This trend is expected to continue to be maintained in the last months of the year if Vietnamese enterprises make good use of incentives from free trade agreements and improve competitiveness.
