HANOI, March 13 (Reuters) – Vietnam produced the largest trade surplus with the United States in January, overtaking both Mexico and China, latest official \u200cU.S. data shows, as its exports rose sharply while Chinese direct shipments \u200cto the United States fell.<\/p>\n
Hanoi has been negotiating a trade deal with Washington for months but no \u200bagreement has been reached because of the large trade gap and disagreements over tariff rates the U.S. wants to impose on Vietnamese goods, officials have said.<\/p>\n
* In January, Vietnam’s trade surplus with the United Statesreached $19 billion, according to U.S. official data released \u200conThursday. It was the biggest \u2060dollar surplus for all tradingpartners, followed by Taiwan, Mexico and China. * Hanoi’s exports to the U.S. rose 53% to exceed $20 billionin \u2060January from a year earlier, the data shows, while U.S.imports from China in the same period dropped by 46%. * Vietnam’s trade surplus with the U.S. has surpassedChina’s since the \u200bsecond quarter \u200bof 2025 and was second only toMexico \u200bin the last three quarters. \u200cIt reached $178 billion forall of 2025. * Vietnam’s exports to the United States have been risingsteadily as higher tariffs on Chinese goods discouragedBeijing’s exports. At the same time Vietnam’s imports of Chinesegoods, largely for re-export, reached record levels in January,according to Vietnamese data. * The Trump administration has repeatedly accused Vietnam ofbeing a waypoint for Chinese goods \u200cdirected to the UnitedStates, which face lower duties \u200bwhen carrying a “Made inVietnam” label. * Illegally transshipped goods \u200bare subject to U.S. tariffsof \u200b40%, but the White House has not yet indicated its criteriato \u200cdetermine what can be considered as \u200ban illegal transshipment. * It \u200bhas however launched this week new investigations onVietnam and other countries over possible unfair tradepractices. * Washington imposed 20% tariffs on Vietnamese goods inAugust. After \u200bthe Supreme Court struck down \u200cTrump’s globaltariffs as illegal in February, the White House imposed a 10%global \u200btariff for 150 days.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Francesco Guarascio; Additional reporting by Trevor \u200bHunnicutt in Washington: Editing by Neil Fullick)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOI, March 13 (Reuters) – Vietnam produced the largest trade surplus with the United States in January, overtaking…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":652598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,50951,79,2222,27462,67,132,68,15336,276901],"class_list":["post-652597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chinese-goods","tag-economy","tag-mexico","tag-trade-surplus","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnamese-data"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116221744931472746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}