Vietnam’s export turnover in the first four months of this year crossed US $26.94 billion, or a year-on-year increase of 35.7%, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
Export products like coffee, rubber, and cassava saw a double growth against the same period last year, while the export revenues of vegetable, pepper and steel increased by half.
In the period, the import value reached over US $31.83 billion, up 29.1% compared with the same period last year.
The growth was attributed to rising imports of cotton (two folds), wheat, petro, fiber, automobiles (from 20% to 40%)./.