Eight items with export turnover of over one billion USD in Q1
During the first quarter of 2020, the country recorded eight items with export turnover of over one billion USD, making up 70.6 percent of the nation’s total export value.
Domestic wood processing enterprises are urged to use more online commercial channels to find new markets and customers, especially during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Mobile phones and spare parts continued leading the group of seven top hard currency earners that recorded over one billion USD in export turnover in the first two months of 2020.
Vietnam ran a trade surplus of 2.8 billion USD in the first quarter of this year, higher than 1.5 billion USD recorded in the same period last year, despite the growing COVID-19 pandemic in the country’s major export markets, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Hanoi posted an increase of 3.27 percent in Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in the first quarter of 2020 – the lowest in recent years, according to the municipal Statistics Office.