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The Republic of Korea (RoK) exported more to Vietnam in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the same period last year.

Opportunities to export to the US and the US’s requirements for imported food and pharmaceuticals were brought to light during a seminar held in Hanoi on April 11.

The rice output of the winter-spring rice crop fell significantly due to drought and salination, but with an additional 200,000ha to be planted in the Mekong Delta, there will be enough rice exports.

Indonesia has set the target of exporting 100,000 tonnes of rice to 10 Asian and European countries as part of efforts to increase farm commodity exports this year.

Vietnam continues to be the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s export market with the highest growth rate, according to a report released by the RoK Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) on April 1.

Vietnam’s aquatic export value in the first quarter of this year hit 1.36 billion USD, up 1.7 percent year-on-year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam ’s export value to Mexico in the first two months of this year reached 257.2 million USD, up 41.4 percent compared with last year.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh raised a number of measures to boost industrial production at a meeting in Hanoi on March 28.

Agro-fishery-forestry exports were estimated at 6.73 billion USD in Quarter 1, a year-on year increase of 3.1 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Local rice exporters have offered a higher export price due to price rise in the domestic market, thereby losing the advantage in the competitive world market, said experts.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho posted total export value of 234 million USD in the first three months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 17.5 percent, and accounting for 16% of the yearly plan

Severe drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta has badly affected agriculture and aquaculture, threatening a scarcity of raw materials for seafood exports.

Singapore’s non-oil domestic export (NODX) rebounded in February with a year-on-year increase of 2.1 percent, compared with a 10.1 percent overall decline in January.

Rice exports have surged in the first two months as many of last year's contracts are being executed this year, according to the Vietnam Food Association.

Lao exports to the European Union (EU) reached 204.9 million EUR in the period from January to October last year, up 16.6 percent against the same period of 2014, according to the Vientiane Times.

Vietnam shipped abroad approximately 440,000 tonnes of rice in February, up 5.44 percent against last month and 117 percent from a year ago, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

Vietnam’s export turnover to Mexico reached nearly 1.54 bln USD in 2015, up 49.16 percent from 2014, the highest increase in a decade, according to the trade office of the Vietnamese Embassy in Mexico

Indonesia has the opportunity to replace Thailand as the automotive production hub in ASEAN, Indonesian news agency Antara quoted Ipsos Business Consulting Firm as saying.

The United States has levied higher anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese warm-water shrimp exports during the period of review from February 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015.

Thailand has launched a campaign to boost industrial products export to Vietnam, director general of the Thai Ministry of Industry's Department of Industrial Promotion said on March 14.