The latest figures released by the Vietnam General Customs Department
showed the country’s total import-export volume from January 1 to April
15 hit 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.
Export
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 19.59 billion USD, up 25.9 percent from the same period last year
and accounting for 58 percent of country’s total export revenue.
In the first 15 days of April, Vietnam imported 5.58 billion USD,
worth of goods, an increase of 22.9 percent for the second half of
March. Rise in imports were mostly seen in computers, vehicles, machines
and mobile phone.-VNA