In the State Department's 2006 Trafficking in Person's Report (TIP Report), Vietnam is ranked as a Tier 2 human trafficking violator.  Vietnam is ranked a Tier 2 violator due to the fact that, " The Government of Vietnam does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking."

As reported from the State Department TIP Report, "Vietnam is a source and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes sexual exploitation and forced labor. Vietnamese women and girls are trafficked to Cambodia, the P.R.C., Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic for sexual exploitation." It should also be noted that,  "State-owned labor export companies recruit and send workers abroad; some of these laborers have been known to suffer conditions of involuntary servitude or bonded or forced labor." The government of Vietnam is expanding its labor export to 80,000 Vietnamese people this year. (The China Post)