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Two-way trade between Vietnam and the UK recorded a slight increase of 2 million USD to 2.09 billion USD (1.22 billion GBP) in the first five months of 2014.

Vietnam-US trade continued to grow in the first quarter of this year, increasing 16.5 percent over the same period last year with export value up 12.3 percent and import value up 36 percent, the Vietnam Trade Office in the USA said.

Two-way trade was valued at 3,964 million USD, 16.5 percent (or 564 million USD) more than the first quarter of 2009, statistics recently released by the US Department of Commerce said.