The General Department of Customs said that state budget revenue from import-export activities in 10 months reached 346,283 billion VND, equal to 92.3% of the estimate, up 14.5% over the same period last year.

Accordingly, the total value of import and export of goods in the 10 months of 2024 reached 647.87 billion USD, an increase of 15.8% (equivalent to an increase of 88.57 billion USD) over the same period last year. Vietnam’s trade balance of goods had a surplus of 23.31 billion USD, 6% lower than the surplus of 24.8 billion USD in the same period last year.

Also in the past 10 months, the illegal transportation of goods, currency, and gold across the border has shown signs of increasing on the air route. The illegal trading and transportation of firecrackers and white sugar continues in the central provinces and the Vietnam-Laos border. In the areas bordering Vietnam-China and Vietnam-Cambodia, the trading and transportation of goods without invoices or documents proving their origin is still complicated, especially for food, cigarettes, and tobacco leaves.

The General Department of Customs said that cases with signs of criminality decreased compared to the same period in 2023, but there was a phenomenon of using a registered company’s legal entity to intentionally commit fraud such as falsifying information of the legal representative, the company not operating at the registered address, illegally using digital signatures, bank accounts to carry out illegal import procedures for chemicals that are restricted business items and must be specially controlled according to the provisions of law.

As a result, in 10 months, the customs sector detected, arrested and handled 14,724 cases of violations of customs laws, with an estimated value of infringing goods of VND 26,286 billion. The customs agency prosecuted 24 cases, transferred 141 cases to other agencies for prosecution; collected VND 745.68 billion for the state budget.