Vietnam-ASEAN trade rises to $16.9B in Jan-Aug

Trade between Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) rose to $16.9 billion in the first eight months of this year, including the former’s trade gap of $3.3 billion.

Vietnam reaped $6.8 billion from exports to the ASEAN, up 19.7% from a year earlier, and imported $10.1 billion, up 27.7%, the government’s General Statistics Office said in a monthly report released Sept 28.

Vietnam’s export staples to the ASEAN were crude oil, rice, seafood, apparel and electronic spare parts and its main imports were machinery, consumer goods and materials.

In early April, the Ministry of Industry and Trade forecast Vietnam would export $8.88 billion worth of goods to the bloc this year. – GSO

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Posted by VBN on Oct 1 2010. Filed under Import-Export, Import-Export turnover. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry