The Trade, Service and Price Statistics Department said Vietnam’s August exports topped US$6 billion, bringing the export earnings in the first eight months of 2010 to US$44.521 billion, up 19.7 % year on year.
Particularly, in August, the domestic economic sector made US$2.8 billion, up 12.6 % from the same month of 2009, and foreign-led sector earned US$3.2 billion, with crude oil included, up 26.6 %, or US$2.85 billion, with crude out excluded, up 39.9 %.
Key exports made a slight rise. In particular, the country exported 10,000 tonnes worth of US$41 million, up 35.6 % year on year. It bagged US$135 million from coal, up 29 %, US$406 million chemicals, up 83.9 %, US$250 million from rubber, up 89.3 %.
In the first eight months, steel export outstood with a shipment of 836,000 tonnes worth US$676 million, up 220.8 % from the same period in 2009.
Other goods like electronics appliances, computers, machines, tools, electric wires and cables, vehicles kept rising momentum gained in the first seven months.
Besides, domestic and foreign market uncertainty, seven exports declined in both volume and value. Coffee export slid 5.1 %; crude oil sank 20.5 %; and cassava tumbled 19.9 % reduction. Notably, gemstones and precious metals nosedived 37.1 % compared to the same period of last year.
Thu Ha
Vietnamese
