What does Vietnam produce and export?

What does Vietnam produce?

What does Vietnam export?

Vietnam's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Vietnam's own $17.8 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Rice alone is 23% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Vietnam compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Cashews: #1, 51% of world imports, $1.8 billion (2024)
• Steel: #1, 9.3% of world imports, $6.4 billion (2024)
• Fishmeal: #2, 6% of world imports, $567.4 million (2024)
• Cassava: #3, 15% of world imports, $504 million (2024)
• Cotton: #3, 14% of world imports, $2.5 billion (2024)
• Lead: #3, 7.3% of world imports, $635 million (2024)
• Pistachios: #3, 7.7% of world imports, $265 million (2024)
• Tungsten: #3, 13% of world imports, $36.5 million (2024)
• Antimony: #4, 4.9% of world imports, $23.1 million (2024)
• Corn: #4, 5.3% of world imports, $2.5 billion (2024)
• Rice: #4, 4.3% of world imports, $1.7 billion (2024)
• Silk: #4, 9.7% of world imports, $35.7 million (2024)
• Apples: #5, 4.7% of world imports, $376.6 million (2024)
• Coal: #6, 2.8% of world imports, $5 billion (2024)
• Natural rubber: #6, 4.6% of world imports, $782.1 million (2024)
• Rare earths: #6, 3.9% of world imports, $43.8 million (2024)
• Zinc: #6, 5.1% of world imports, $753.8 million (2024)
• Beef: #7, 2.3% of world imports, $848 million (2024)
• Logs: #7, 2.4% of world imports, $315 million (2024)
• Peanuts: #7, 3.8% of world imports, $179.7 million (2024)
• Pepper: #7, 3.3% of world imports, $197.6 million (2024)
• Cloves: #9, 2% of world imports, $13 million (2024)
• Grapes: #9, 2.7% of world imports, $358.8 million (2024)
• Iron ore: #9, 0.9% of world imports, $1.5 billion (2024)
• Mangoes: #9, 3% of world imports, $123.3 million (2024)
• Ginger: #10, 2.9% of world imports, $37.6 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Vietnam commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Vietnam is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Cashews #4 producer
• Cinnamon #2 producer, #1 exporter
• Coconut oil #4 producer
• Coffee #2 producer, #2 exporter
• Fishmeal #4 producer
• Fluorspar #5 exporter
• Natural rubber #4 producer, #4 exporter
• Pepper #1 producer, #2 exporter
• Plywood #3 exporter
• Rare earths #2 exporter
• Rice #5 producer, #4 exporter
• Shrimp #3 producer, #4 exporter
• Silk #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Tungsten #2 producer

Vietnam in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Vietnam, computed from the same data as this page.

What Vietnam uses

Vietnam had about 100 million people and a food supply of 3,086 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Vietnam's yams (−1 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 0 tonnes, exports 1 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Vietnam

• Single-supplier markets. Vietnam buys half or more of its imports from one country in 12 of 32 import markets of $250 million or more, among them steel from China (74%, $6.4 billion); corn from Argentina (55%, $2.5 billion); rice from Cambodia (82%, $1.7 billion); iron ore from Australia (58%, $1.5 billion); gold from Hong Kong (90%, $1.3 billion); palm oil from Indonesia (60%, $992 million). Import dependency.
• Suppliers losing. Kuwait in crude oil (87% to <0.1%, −87 points); Australia in wheat (71% to 29%, −43 points).

How long Vietnam's own reserves would last

• Tin: Vietnam's reserves are about 2 years of its own output at the current rate (3.8% of world output, 0.4% of world reserves), against 21 years for the world.
• Tungsten: Vietnam's reserves are about 57 years of its own output at the current rate (3.5% of world output, 3.6% of world reserves), against 55 years for the world.

USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.

Vietnam and critical minerals

The export controls register lists 1 measure imposed by Vietnam, of which 1 is in force, suspended or scheduled as of the register's date.

• Vietnam bans exports of raw rare earth minerals through amended minerals law (2025-12; Ban; In force; Rare earths)

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Data updated 22 October 2026.

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