Vietnam-Burma bilateral trade up nearly 57pct in 2010

In 2010, Vietnam-Myanmar two-way trade reached $155 million, up 56.7 percent against 2009′s ($98.9 million), Ministry of Industry and Trade reported.

During the year 2010, Vietnam’s key export items to Myanmar market included materials for garment and textile sector, steel, medicine, heal equipments and tyres.

In addition, Vietnam’s enterprises also exported commodities to Myanmar market such as batteries, construction materials, fertiliser, chemicals, machinery parts, electronic and electricity equipments, plastic products, kitchen tools, cosmetic, stationery, plastic roofing sheets, processing foods, materials for food industry, automobile, mining drilling equipments and office machines.

Meanwhile, Vietnam’s main import items from Myanmar market included wooden and forestry products, natural rubber, agricultural products, Cathodes copper, seafood products (sea crab, dried fish, lobster, frozen sea fish and oysters), steel wire, meat, fish food, cow leather and materials for garment and textile sector. – Vietbiz24

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Posted by VBN on Jan 11 2011. 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