2017’s first six months: trade deficit hits 2.7 billion USD
In the first six months of 2017, export earnings increased by 18.9 percent and import turnover by 24.1 percent year-on-year. Trade deficit reached 2.7 billion USD.
In the first six months of 2017, the total amount of newly registered capital, additional investment and share purchase reached 19.22 billion USD, up 54.8 percent year on year.
The consumer price index (CPI) in the first half of 2017 rose 4.15 percent compared to the same period last year, head of the Price Statistics Department under the General Statistics Office Vu Thi Thu Thuy reported at a press conference in Hanoi on June 29.
Vietnam’s export turnover of aquatic products was estimated at 653 million USD in June, raising the total figure in the first half of this year to 3.5 billion USD, up 14.1 percent year-on-year.