Vietnam’s Rubber Exports to China up 18.4% to 510,245 Tons in 2009
Vietnam exported 510,245 tons of rubber worth US$856.7 million to China in 2009, up 18.4% in volume but down 19% in value against previous year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said.
The figure accounted for 69.8% of Vietnam’s total rubber export volume and helped China remain as the biggest importer of Vietnamese rubber.
Last year, Vietnam raked in US$1.2 billion from exporting 731,393 tons of rubber, down 23.5% in value despite an increase of 11% in volume, on decreases in prices.
Below is the list of Vietnam’s rubber import markets in Dec and 2009
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Markets
|
Dec 2009’s revenues (USD)
|
2009’s revenues (USD)
|
Compared to 2008
|
|
Total
|
120,546,214
|
1,226,857,439
|
- 23.5
|
|
China
|
142,839,883
|
856,712,920
|
- 19
|
|
Malaysia
|
8,317,149
|
50,293,663
|
+ 4
|
|
Taiwan
|
10,527,795
|
47,288,980
|
- 16.1
|
|
South Korea
|
5,483,803
|
40,830,659
|
- 35.4
|
|
Germany
|
5,263,181
|
38,451,499
|
- 40
|
|
U.S.
|
41,02,907
|
28,520,644
|
- 34.2
|
|
Russia
|
2,429,321
|
20,830,277
|
- 4.3
|
|
Japan
|
2,572,881
|
15,900,209
|
- 54
|
|
Turkey
|
2,295,368
|
14,221,431
|
- 34.1
|
|
Italy
|
1,304,226
|
12,048,562
|
- 39.8
|
|
Spain
|
982,618
|
10,673,171
|
- 43
|
|
India
|
1,332,402
|
10,204,527
|
+ 55.9
|
|
Indonesia
|
1,944,484
|
9,564,582
|
+ 0.7
|
|
Singapore
|
193,100
|
6,430,985
|
+ 168
|
|
Belgium
|
576,691
|
4,998,047
|
- 67
|
|
Hong Kong
|
228,283
|
3,421,646
|
- 4.3
|
|
UK
|
501,446
|
2,860,938
|
- 59.6
|
|
Canada
|
452,072
|
2,555,632
|
- 63.4
|
|
Czech
|
102,715
|
1,495,270
|
- 82
|
|
Sweden
|
210,874
|
990,083
|
- 75
|
|
Ukraine
|
581,710
|
- 82.8
|
|
|
Finland
|
473,681
|
- 95.4
|
(vinanet)
Tags: Vietnam rubber exports, Vietnam Rubber Exports to China
Posted by VBN on Feb 4 2010. Filed under Import-Export, Rubber & Plastic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
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