State budget collection from export-import activities in the first two months stood at 56.33 trillion VND (2.37 billion USD), or 13.3% of the estimate, down 19.4% year-on-year, reported the General Department of Vietnam Customs (Vietnam Customs).
State budget collection from export-import activities in January topped 24.8 trillion VND (1.07 billion USD), or 5.8% of the estimate, down 42.3% annually, reported the General Department of Vietnam Customs (GDVC).
The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, VNDIRECT Securities Corporation, experts and investors are optimistic about Vietnam’s economic growth prospect next year thanks to drivers such as exports, domestic consumption, foreign direction investment attraction, timely and effective policies by the Government, according to an article recently published by Russia’s Sputnik.
Brazil spoke highly of the central role of ASEAN countries in the region during a meeting between the ASEAN Committee in the country and representatives from Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the industry and trade sector to strive for an export turnover of 300 billion USD next year during a conference held in Hanoi on December 27.
Vietnam’s export-import value topped 480 billion USD in 2018, up 11.1 percent year-on-year, said deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s Export-Import Agency Tran Thanh Hai.
Vietnam’s export-import value reached 38.3 billion USD in January – up 39.9 percent compared to a year earlier but down 3.1 percent compared to December 2017.
Vietnam’s export turnover is likely to hit 195 billion USD this year, up 10-11 percent compared with 2016 and 6-7 percent higher than the target set by the Prime Minister.
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