Animal Feed & Ingredients   Behind every chicken, pig and pangasius that Vietnam raises to eat and to export is an enormous amount of feed. And most of the raw materials for that feed come from abroad. Corn, soybean meal, fish meal and nutritional additives are imported each year at a value of several billion […]

Plastics & Raw Resin   Look around your home, from the plastic chair, the phone case and the water pipe to the wrapper on a pack of noodles. Almost everything begins as tiny plastic pellets. Vietnam’s plastics industry is large and fast-growing, yet it stands on an imported foundation. In 2025, plastic products alone accounted […]

Iron & Steel   Vietnam both exports and imports steel. It sounds contradictory, yet it makes perfect sense. We do well with ordinary construction steel, but high-grade types such as hot-rolled coil, alloy steel and high-quality stainless steel are beyond what domestic capacity can supply. So in 2025, iron and steel remained a large import […]

Automobiles & Auto Parts   As incomes rise and highways stretch ever further, the car in Vietnam is gradually leaving the “luxury” list to become a real need. In 2025, automobile imports reached USD 9.5 billion, of which complete built-up cars alone exceeded USD 4.3 billion — a jump of more than 30% over the […]

Fabric & Textile–Footwear Materials   There’s a paradox sitting right inside the pride of Vietnam’s garment industry: we are the world’s second-largest clothing exporter, yet we import almost all the fabric used to make those clothes. In 2025, fabric alone consumed around USD 10.6 billion in imports, plus another USD 6.6 billion for textile and […]

Machinery, Equipment & Production Lines   To make goods to sell, you first need machines. It sounds obvious, but that very obviousness explains why machinery, equipment, tools and parts always sit among Vietnam’s largest import groups, worth around USD 42 billion in 2025. Every time a new factory rises in Bac Ninh, Long An or […]