Bangkok (NNT/VNA) - The Thai Ministryof Commerce reports exports in November of this year grew 13.36 percent, thehighest rate for the year, with overall exports during the first 11 months up10.01 percent.
The value of exports in November was 21.434billion USD. Trade with south Asian countries grew most, increasing 41.8percent, while in ASEAN exports were up 27.1 percent; to Australia, 26 percent;to China, 16.9 percent; and to the US, 10.7 percent.
The best performing products were agricultural and processed agricultural goodssuch as rice, which achieved a record high volume of 1.5 million tons sold,Para rubber, frozen fruits, frozen and processed chicken and sugar. Industrialproducts that performed well included rubber, car parts and computer parts.
Director of the Trade Policy and PlanningOffice Pimchanok Wonkorporn said that with trade over the first 11 months totalling216.953 billion USD, up 10.1 percent, the full year value of trade should be noless than 10 percent up and come in above 230 billion USD.
The value of imports in November totalled19.672 billion USD, up 13.7 percent. Over the first 11 months the countrybought 227.44 billion USD worth of goods from overseas, 14.5 percent higheron-year. The trade surplus stands at 14.209 billion USD.-VNA
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