Soai Rap Industrial Park in Tien Giang province (Photo: baodauthau.vn) Tien Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of TienGiang shipped overseas 1.5 billion USD worth of products in the first half of2019, up over 11.3 percent against the same period last year.
The foreign-invested sector made up 75 percent of the totalexports, an annual increase of 16.4 percent.
As for the local export structure during the period, theproportion of industrial products accounted for the lion’s share of 80 percent,up 9.1 percent year-on-year.
Many of Tien Giang’s key exports gained high revenue,including copper pipes with 282.5 million USD, bags and plastic products 215.6million USD, and apparel 210.8 million USD.
In the January-June period, the province’s key markets wereAsia, America, and Europe, which purchased 40, 37 and 19.5 percent of its totalexports, respectively.
Director of the provincial Industry and Trade Doan VanPhuong said the local industrial production and export will continue growing inthe last half of the year.
The production of major industrial goods like copper pipes,footwear, and apparel is likely to increase significantly over positiveconsumption demand, he added.
Tien Giang is working to push its export earnings to 3billion USD this year, up 4.7 percent year on year.-VNA
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