{"id":459133,"date":"2026-06-03T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:53:23","slug":"vietnam-inflation-rises-to-2020-high-trade-deficit-widens-on-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459133\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam inflation rises to 2020 high; trade deficit widens on fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/inflation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inflation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Imports outpace exports as energy prices weigh on economy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"COPIED: 20260408 VN gas station\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Motorcyclists line up at a gasoline station in Hanoi as rising fuel costs push up prices in Vietnam as well as the value of imports. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>MAI NGUYEN and YUJI NITTA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HANOI &#8212; Vietnam&#8217;s Consumer Price Index (CPI) in May climbed to its highest level since January 2020, as fuel costs surged amid spillover effects from the Middle East conflict and hot weather drove up electricity demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation Imports outpace exports as energy prices weigh on economy Motorcyclists line up at a gasoline station in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27341,138,802,20134,219,2678,2959,1943,111,139,69,10042,584,2317,36298],"class_list":["post-459133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-27341","tag-business","tag-costs","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-fuel","tag-high","tag-inflation","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rises","tag-trade","tag-vietnam","tag-widens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}