Vietnam's export up 16 pct in 1st half of 2018

By：Xinhua Net Update：2018-06-29

HANOI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam made export turnovers of over 113.9 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of this year, seeing a year-on-year rise of 16 percent, its General Statistics Office said on Friday.

Specifically, the domestic economic sector gained export turnovers of nearly 33.1 billion U.S. dollars, up 19.9 percent, and foreign-invested sector roughly 80.9 billion U.S. dollars, up 14.5 percent.

Among export items, 20 products had export turnovers of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars each.

Export turnovers of phones and their components grew 15.4 percent to 22.5 billion U.S. dollars; electronic goods and components grew 15.7 percent to 13.5 billion U.S. dollars; garments and textiles grew 13.8 percent to 13.4 billion U.S. dollars), machines and spare parts grew 30.6 percent to over 7.8 billion U.S. dollars, and footwear grew 10.6 percent to 7.8 billion U.S. dollars.

Some agricultural products such as coffee, rubber and pepper saw bigger export volumes but smaller values between January and June, said the office.