Vietnam Today

The total import demand across the CPTPP bloc (excluding Vietnam) in 2025 reached approximately $4.25 trillion. Vietnam, with its export revenue to CPTPP markets exceeding $70 billion, accounted for just over 1% of the bloc's total imports.

Vietnam and Panama have agreed to capitalize on their respective geoeconomic advantages to bolster transport connectivity, logistics, financial flows, and supply chains linking East Asia and Latin America.

Of the total refunded amount, value-added tax refunds for exported goods and services accounted for the largest proportion, accounting for 84%.

Driven by accelerating manufacturing output and surging exports of artificial intelligence hardware, Vietnam leads growth across regional economies, according to the WB's update.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has issued Official Dispatch No 152/CV-VASEP to the Ministry of Finance, the Vietnam Tax Authority, and the Vietnam Customs, highlighting tax policy bottlenecks facing seafood processing and exporting enterprises.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product expanded by 9.95 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2026, bringing nine-month economic growth to 9.01 percent.