Maintain stable export and import growth momentum

In the context of many fluctuations in the global economy, the import and export activities of Tay Ninh province still maintain a stable growth momentum. As of August 14, 2025, the import and export turnover reached 20.80 billion USD, an increase of 19.57% over the same period in 2024. Of which, export reached 11.53 billion USD; import reached 9.27 billion USD. This is a good sign for the province, a vivid demonstration of the persistent efforts of the province and import-export enterprises operating.

Accompanying businesses

Over the years, the business community in the province has made important contributions to the province's economic growth, state budget revenue and import and export turnover of the province. Recognizing that compliance with customs laws is important for businesses in import and export activities, the Regional Customs Branch XVII has made efforts to disseminate and propagate customs laws to businesses, especially small businesses and newly established businesses, to grasp policies and core documents on customs procedures and tax procedures.

In recent times, propaganda activities have been implemented in many forms and means, such as direct information at customs agencies, through business dialogue conferences, document posting boards at customs procedure locations, hotline numbers, emails, posting on websites and social networking sites. In addition, the Regional Customs Branch XVII also coordinates with central and local news agencies and newspapers to effectively carry out this work. From the efforts of the customs sector, many enterprises have become well aware of many benefits in import and export activities.

Chief of Import-Export Management of King Honor Paper Products Manufacturing Company Limited Nguyen Ngoc Thanh said: “Located in Duc Hoa commune, the company produces paper cups, paper trays and many paper products serving 100% of the export market in many countries around the world such as the US, Canada, Australia and some European countries. In recent times, thanks to the propaganda and support of the customs sector, the company has promptly grasped new legal documents to properly implement them. Compliance with the customs laws helps speed up the customs clearance of goods. In addition to proactively propagating new legal documents, the sector has also promptly resolved difficulties in mechanisms and policies of enterprises.”

To develop the Custom-Enterprise partnership towards building a professional - transparent - effective, Regional Customs Branch XVII strives to reform administrative procedures and modernize customs management. Accordingly, the unit focuses on implementing solutions to create openness and convenience for import and export while still ensuring state management of customs in accordance with the laws. Import and export goods are processed and cleared within the prescribed time as committed in the customer service declaration.

According to Deputy Head of Regional Customs Branch XVII Le Nam Quoc, the unit strengthens management and supervision to promptly resolve problems related to policies and procedures for businesses; for problems beyond its authority, the unit asks for opinions from superiors for specific implementation instructions; monitors the processing of on-site import and export declarations that have not passed through the monitoring area on the system; urge customs at border gates and outside border gates to review and handle taxes on export declarations without corresponding import declarations; urge and remind enterprises to notify the status of using tax-free imported goods in accordance with regulations.

As of August 14, 2025, Regional Customs Branch XVII has made over 620,400 customs declarations, an increase of 22% over the same period in 2024. Import-export turnover reached 20.80 billion USD, an increase of 19.57% over the same period in 2024. In which exports are mainly products of the garment, footwear, sandals, metal products, iron and steel products, electricity, and paper products, total export turnover reached 11.53 billion USD. The main imported items are textile materials, non-ferrous metals, machinery, equipment, iron and steel, cotton, fiber, yarn, natural rubber latex, raw cashew nuts, etc., with a total import turnover of 9.27 billion USD.

Creating leverage for export and import

With the viewpoint that "Tay Ninh government and enterprises are like two friends accompanying each other to develop together, the success of enterprises is also the success of the province", in recent times, the province has always paid attention to improving the investment environment, creating the most favorable conditions for domestic and foreign enterprises to promote trade, expand cooperation, and develop production and business activities in the province.

In order to connect and support the development of the export of goods and services, the Provincial People's Committee coordinated with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to organize the Conference on connecting the supply chain of import-export goods and e-commerce in Tay Ninh province in 2025. Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Huynh Van Quang Hung said that the conference is expected to be held on September 6, 2025 at the Thong Nhat Hall of the Tay Ninh Provincial People's Committee with an expected scale of 600 delegates, including: representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, international organizations, import-export enterprises, logistics enterprises, distribution systems, large e-commerce platforms in 17 countries such as the US, China, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Latvia, UK, Netherlands, Austria, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to directly connect with enterprises in Tay Ninh province. In addition, the conference also had the participation of major distributors and reputable e-commerce platforms such as Aeon, Walmart, Central Retail, Amazon, Alibaba, etc.

The conference will be an important event to promote, connect trade, and promote import and export activities of goods and services between Tay Ninh's enterprises and domestic and foreign enterprises. In order for the event to be successful, the Department of Industry and Trade continues to closely coordinate with departments, branches and sectors to implement the contents and tasks to ensure the requirements and progress, and at the same time develop plans to handle situations when they arise.

From July 1, Long An province and Tay Ninh province (old) merged into Tay Ninh province. After the merger, the whole province has 1,826 import and export enterprises. Goods of the province have been exported to hundreds of countries and regions around the world. Many products are exported to prestige markets such as the US, Japan, Korea, countries in the European Union (EU), etc.

Recently, to help enterprises in the province expand export markets and participate deeply in the global value chain, the Department of Industry and Trade has advised the province to deploy a variety of trade promotion activities. In addition to traditional trade promotion activities, the Department of Industry and Trade applies digital transformation to promote trade and e-commerce, contributing to supporting enterprises in developing production and boosting exports. At the same time, to meet the increasing demand of the international market, the province also encourages enterprises to focus on building brands towards green production, investing in environmentally friendly products because this is also one of the factors that help build a sustainable brand for enterprises.

As the only gateway connecting the West, Tay Ninh province is also adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City, bordering Dong Nai province, Dong Thap province and the Kingdom of Cambodia. With geographical advantages, the province has a lot of potential in logistics development. To facilitate trade, and at the same time help businesses have more opportunities to promote import and export activities, the province focuses on attracting investment in logistics projects, especially traffic and transportation infrastructure, warehouse infrastructure and application of new technology in logistics.

From the available potentials and the high determination and great efforts of the entire political system and the business community, we believe that the province's import and export turnover will continue to maintain a positive growth momentum, thereby creating a breakthrough in economic growth in the coming time./.

By Thanh Dung - Translated by Q. Thien