According to the latest figures released by the Vietnam General Customs Department, the country’s total import- export volume from January 1 to April 15 hitS 69.75 billion USD, up 19.7 percent over the same period last year.

Of the total, exports reached 34.41 billion USD, a rise of 19 percent, while imports hit 35.35 billion USD, up 20.3 percent.

In the first half of April alone, export revenue reached 10.55 billion USD, a rise of 4.9 percent compared to the second half of March.

Exports from FDI enterprises in the first 15 days of April totalled more than 2.7 billion USD, raising the total figure from January 1 to April 15 to nearly 19.95 billion USD, up 25.9 percent from the same period last year and accounting for 58 percent of the country’s total export revenue.

In the first 15 days of April, Vietnam imported 5.88 billion USD worth of goods, an increase of 22.9 percent from the second half of March. Rise in imports were mostly seen in computers, electronics, spare parts, vehicles, machines and mobile phones.-VNA