Cambodia's trade with foreign countries surges
Xinhua News Agency cited a report of the Cambodian Commerce Ministry as
saying that the country had exported products in equivalent to 6.9
billion USD last year, a year-on-year increase of 26 percent.
On the import side, the country had imported goods in equivalent to 9
billion USD last year, up to 14 percent from 7.9 billion USD in a year
earlier.
Kang Chandararot, president of the Cambodia
Institute of Development Study, has said the increase in trade volume
was a good sign for the country's economy.
Cambodia's
major trading partners are the United States, European countries,
China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and the
Republic of Korea .
The imported products included
garment raw materials, petroleum, construction materials, automobiles
and motorcycles, food and soft drinks, pharmaceutical products and
cosmetics.-VNA