Determinants of Vietnamese Product Export to Asean Members

Abstract:This paper employs the gravity model to investigate and analyze the determinants of Vietnam’s exports to ASEAN countries over a period of nineteen years, from 1997 to 2015. The results show that the increase in the GDP of Vietnam and of trading countries, Vietnam’s population and the large population of importing countries, the change of real exchange rates, the regional free trade treaties that Vietnam signed, the shared borders and being landlocked with the importing countries, all have different influences on Vietnam’s export of different product groups. The results of this paper may be beneficial to the Vietnamese government and exporting companies in setting their export goals and policies.