The trade and service activities in the coming months are expected to further grow strongly compared to 2024.

People buy goods at The City Luc Ngan Supermarket (Chu township).

Specifically, total retail sales of goods and service revenue in March hits more than 5.9 trillion VND (251.2 million USD), up 3.2% over the previous month and up 13.1% over the same period last year.

Of which, total retail sales of goods in March are estimated at over 4.2 trillion VND, up 2.3% over the previous month and up 11.8% over the same period.

Meanwhile, service revenue in March hits over 1.6 trillion VND, up 5.5% over the previous month and up 16.7% over the same period.

In accumulation, total retail sales of goods and service revenue in the first quarter of 2025 is estimated at more than 17.6 trillion VND, increasing 10.2% over the same period and reaching 25.8% of the plan for the whole year.

Total retail sales of goods and service revenue highly increase in the first quarter of this year thanks to economic recovery, increasing demand for purchasing goods and using services.

To ensure supply, since the end of 2024, the Department of Industry and Trade has planned to coordinate with relevant sectors, manufacturing and supplying enterprises to reserve products for sale on the market; joined hands with functional forces and district authorities to strengthen control and handle acts of trading in prohibited goods, counterfeit goods and fake goods.

Trade surplus hits $1.47B in 2 months

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Vietnamese businesses to gain access to billion-dollar market with trade delegation to Japan

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Vietnam, China launch new border crossing to enhance trade

The Ly Van (Vietnam) – Shuo Long (China) Border Gate was inaugurated on February 27, enhancing trade connections between the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang and China’s the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Agricultural exports: finding opportunities amidst trade war threat

In the long-term, enterprises hope that the Government will manage exchange rates flexibly to benefit exports and prioritise reasonable loan quotas for agricultural exports as domestic raw material prices increase.

Vietnam – key agricultural trade partner of Argentina: newspaper

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