Industrial Exports Values US$18.5Bln in First Ten Months

4:59:27 PM | 10/31/2005

Vietnam earned US$18.5 billion from selling industrial products to foreign countries in the first ten months of 2005, according to the Ministry of Industry (MoI).
 
The country’s key industrial products for exports include crude oil, coal, garments and textiles, footwear, electronics-computer-computer parts, electric wires and cables, plastics, bikes, components and spare parts, fine arts and handicraft and woodwork.
 
Vietnam also reported industrial production of VND42.39 trillion (US$2.68 billion) in October, up 18.3 per cent on-year, raising the total production value in the ten-month period to VND351 trillion (US$22.21 billion), representing an on-year increase of 16.7 per cent.
 
In the same period, it obtained total export revenues of US$26.45 billion, up US$21.9 on-year while import spending was estimated to increase by 18.3 per cent on-year to US$30.52 billion.
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