Forum data put two-way trade at roughly $11.4 billion in 2025, a rise of over 12 per cent from a year earlier, and almost $8.7 billion across the first eight months of 2026.

The two countries' leaders agreed to aim for bilateral trade of $20 billion in the near future.

Both sides should also push the single-window, single-stop model at major border crossings so goods move faster and at lower cost.

Work on the HCM City-Moc Bai-Bavet-Phnom Penh expressway should speed up, and border gates, border markets and logistics centres should be improved.

At the forum, with the two PMs present, Vietnamese and Cambodian agencies and businesses exchanged five cooperation documents.