Exports of vegetable, fruits to China plunge in July
Earnings from vegetable and fruit exports to China, Vietnam’s largest market, stood at 144.2 million USD in July, a year-on-year drop of 44.2 percent, statistics of the General Department of Vietnam Customs showed.
Earnings from vegetable and fruit exports to China, Vietnam’s largest market, stood at 144.2 million USD in July, a year-on-year drop of 44.2 percent (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Earningsfrom vegetable and fruit exports to China, Vietnam’s largest market, stood at144.2 million USD in July, a year-on-year drop of 44.2 percent, statistics ofthe General Department of Vietnam Customs showed.
The decrease in the Chinese marketwas the most significant among Vietnam’s 10 major export markets in the period.
Vietnam raked in 247.3 million USDfrom exports of vegetable and fruits in July, bringing the figure in the firstseven months to 2.3 billion USD, a mild drop of 1.8 percent compared to thesame period last year.
The Vietnam Association of Vegetablespredicted the country’s exports of vegetable and fruits will continue to face difficultiesin the rest of 2019 as China has rolled out stricter import standards.
To date, nine Vietnamese fruits canbe officially imported into the Chinese market, namely dragon fruit, watermelon,litchee, longan, banana, mango, jackfruit, rambutan and mangosteen.-VNA
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Earnings from vegetable and fruit exports to China, Vietnam’s largest market, stood at 144.2 million USD in July, a year-on-year drop of 44.2 percent (Photo: VNA) 
