Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A total of 231 cars worth 10.2 millionUSD were imported to the Vietnamese market over the past week, reported theGeneral Department of Customs.
This marks sharp decreases in both volume and value ascompared with the previous week, with 746 cars valued at 21.6 million USD, thedepartment said.
In the week, there were 97 cars with nine seats or lessworth 2.5 million USD entering Vietnam, accounting for 42 percent of the totalvolume. Of the cars, 45 were from Germany and 40 were from Thailand.
Of note, all of the 82 trucks valued at nearly 1.5 millionUSD imported to Vietnam last week were originated from Thailand.
As many as 52 specialised vehicles worth 6.23 million USDwere shipped to Vietnam, with 25 cars from Thailand, 12 from the Republic ofKorea (RoK) and seven from China. The rest hail from Japan, France, Australia,Italy and Russia.
Nearly 41.27 million USD worth of auto spare parts were alsotransported to the country, mainly from Thailand (12.7 million USD), China(6.78 million USD), Japan (6.45 million USD), the RoK (4.66 million USD) andGermany (4.19 million USD).
Statistics show that 84 percent of auto spare parts importedto Vietnam last week were from the above-mentioned countries.
TheVietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) reported on May 9 that upto 21,123 vehicles were sold in the domestic market in April.
Of the total, the sales of tourist vehicles reached13,549, up 5 percent, while the sales of commercial vehicles decreased 8percent to 6,375 units and the sales of specialised vehicles also fell 8percent to 1,217 units as compared with the previous month.
Notably, the domestically-assembled cars segmentsaw a fall of 5 percent in sales to 17,910 vehicles. On the contrary, 3,213vehicles were imported, up 37 percent month-on-month.
During the January-April period, totalautomobile sales were 80,681 units, a decrease of 7 percent year-on-year. The salesof tourist vehicles increased 2 percent, while that of commercial andspecialised cars fell 18 percent and 36 percent, respectively.
The sales of domestically-assembled cars edgedup 8 percent against a decrease of 47 percent in the sales of importedcars. -VNA
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