Additional four export items included in ‘US dollar billion club’: Customs

Till the middle of October 2011, as many as 20 groups of export commodities reached export turnover of from $1 billion and higher each, increasing four groups from the same period last year, according to the latest statistics from the general Department of Vietnam Customs.
Particularly, cashew reached total export turnover of $1.1 billion (in last year’s Jan-Oct, the figure was over $835 million), gasoline earned over $1.54 billion (it was over $940 million in last year’s same period), iron and steel at over $1.34 billion (it was $801 million in last year’s same period) and plastic products with over $1.02 billion against $797 million in the same period last year.

The remaining groups maintained export turnover of from $1 billion and higher after the first ten months this year, including garment and textile (over $10.92 billion), crude oil (nearly $5.7 billion), footwear (about $4.85 billion), seafood products (nearly $4.6 billion), telephone and accessories (over $4.5 billion), together with coffee, rice, coal, rubber, wood and wooden products, gemstone, precious metals and its products, computers, electronic products and components, machineries, equipments and other instruments, means of transport and spare parts, fibre, yarn and electrical wire and cables.

The total export turnover of these 20 groups of commodities in the “US dollar billion club” in the first ten months of this year reached over $60.1 billion, accounting for over 82 percent of the country’s total export turnover of all items (Vietnam’s total export turnover till October 15 reached some $73.1 billion). – Source: Vietbiz24.com

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