Trade balance: USD100 million January deficit revised to USD1.15 billion surplus. According to the General Customs Office of Vietnam, Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of USD1.15 billion in January, after three consecutive months of trade deficit. This figure is a strong revision of the USD100 million preliminary trade deficit number released at the end of January by the General Statistics Office (GSO) and higher than the USD881 million surplus recorded in January 2016.