Record trade surplus not always a good thing, say Vietnamese experts

Containers being loaded at Hải Phòng Port. The record trade surplus Việt Nam ran in the first eight months of this year mainly came from a drop in imports. — VNA/VNS

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): The record trade surplus Vietnam ran in the first eight months of this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic was not necessarily a good thing, experts have said.

Lê Quốc Phương, former deputy director of the Vietnam Industry and Trade Information Centre under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said the Vietnamese economy had regularly posted a trade surplus in recent years.