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Cambodia’s foreign trade turnover to reach 16 billion USD

Cambodia ’s total trade with foreign countries is expected to increase to nearly 16 billion USD this year, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Commerce Chhoun Dara has said.
Cambodia ’s total trade with foreign countries is expected to increaseto nearly 16 billion USD this year, Secretary of State at the Ministryof Commerce Chhoun Dara has said.

The figure was amountedto nearly 13.9 billion USD last year, up from 11.9 billion USD in 2011,and 9.3 billion USD in 2010, Cambodian news agency AKP on December 18quoted Chhoun Dara saying at a business and investment forum onCambodia toward the ASEAN Economic Community.

The mainforeign markets for Cambodian products including garment and textile andagricultural products are the US , the EU, Japan and ASEAN.

Cambodia ’s economic growth reached 7.3 percent in 2012. The figureis estimated at around 7 percent at the end of this year.-VNA
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