Two-way trade between the nations totalled $2.8 billion in 2011, of which Vietnam’s shipments to Cambodia reached $2.4 billion, and Vietnam imported goods worth around $430 million from the neighbouring country. As such, Vietnam’s trade surplus was some $1.9 billion.

Vietnam’s trade surplus with Cambodia rose to an all-time high of $2.4 billion in 2013, accounting for 83 percent of Vietnam’s total exports to the neighbour.

However, the trade surplus has been falling in the past years, to slightly over $2 billion in 2014 and $1.5 billion in 2016.

Two-way trade between the countries reached $1.08 billion in the first three months of this year. Of the figure, Vietnam exported goods worth $640 million, down 19.6 percent year-on-year, and imported Cambodian commodities worth $446 million, a year-on-year rise of 29.8 percent.

Trade with Cambodia often makes up around 1.1 percent-1.2 percent of Vietnam’s total foreign trade.