Agriculture-aquatic-forestry exports in first half exceed US$19 bln
VGP – Viet Nam gained US$3.45 billion from exporting agriculture-aquatic-forestry products in June, raising the total export value in the first half to US$19.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12%.
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Key export items included rice (US$1.81 billion), vegetables and fruits (US$2 billion) and cashew (US$1.71 billion).
Viet Nam’s largest export markets in the first half consisted of Indonesia (rice, coffee, rubber), China (vegetables, rubber, aquaculture), Germany (tea, aquaculture, cashew) and Malaysia (rice, tea).
The nation mainly imported agriculture-aquatic-forestry products from China (US$1.2 billion, accounting for 74.6% and up 18.1%) and the U.S. (US$50.9 million, up 14.6%).
By Thuy Dung