5 commodities with export value of over 10 bln USD
Vietnam posted a total export value of 194.3 billion USD in the first nine months of this year. Of the export staples, five commodities registered an export value of over 10 billion USD.
As many as 28 commodities reported import value of more than a billion USD in the first seven months of 2019, according to the General Statistics Office.
Vietnam posted a positive trade surplus of over 1 billion USD with ten countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seven months after the trade deal came into effect, according to a report by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
Vietnam’s export turnover hit nearly 170 billion USD in the last eight months, a year on year increase of 7.3 percent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
Vietnam posted a total export value of 169.98 billion USD in the first eight months of this year. Of the export staples, five commodities registered an export value of over 10 billion USD.
The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) said the total export value of textiles, fiber, and cloth reached 25.7 billion USD in the first eight months of the year, up 8.6 percent year on year, including 60.6 percent from foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises.