Vietnam: Five items post export turnover of over $1b

01/04/2011 12:00 - 414 Views

In March, there were five commodities gaining the export turnover of more than $1 billion including apparel products, footwear, crude oil, coffee and seafood products.

According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO), in the first three months this year, apparel products brought the highest export turnover of $2.8 billion, rising 27.9 percent against the same period last year.

In March alone, apparel products export earned $1 billion, nearly two fold increase against February and marking the sole sector gaining export turnover of over $1 billion.

Ranking the second is crude oil with the export turnover in Jan-March at nearly $1.6 billion,

up 15.7 percent year-on-year. Regarding the volume segment, in Q1, the country exported over 1.96 million tonnes of crude oil, falling 12.3 percent against Q1 2010.
The country’s export turnover for footwear, seafood products and coffee reached $1.3 billion, $1.14 billion and $1.05 billion, increasing 29.7 percent, 30.5 percent and 115.1 percent over Q1 2010 respectively.

Mar 30th, 2011
Source: vietnambusiness.asia