Thailand' export turnover in US dollar fell for a seventh straight month in April, down 7.6% from a year earlier as global demand remained slow, the Thai Ministry of Commerce announced on May 30.
The northern border gates have been restored after three years of stagnation, helping Vietnam's import-export turnover with China through the northern border provinces increase by 242% in the first quarter of this year over the same period last year.
Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and his Japanese counterpart Hayashi Yoshimasa discussed strengthening cooperation and investment between the two countries within the framework of the 8th Indonesia-Japan Ministerial Level Strategic Dialogue on March 6 in Tokyo.
Export turnover of the southern province of Dong Nai saw a sharp decline against the same period in the past several years due to high inflation in developed countries and slow consumption, the provincial Statistics Office revealed on March 1.
According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, from the beginning of this year to February 15, the country's total trade valued topped 72 billion USD, with export turnover standing at 37 billion USD and a trade surplus of nearly 1.7 billion USD.
Vietnam raked in 9.5 billion USD from exporting aquatic products in the first 10 months of 2022, up 34% year-on-year, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) reported.
Trade turnover between Vietnam and Laos hit 1.076 billion USD in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 27% compared to the same period last year.
Despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam’s exports to the European Union (EU) have grown positively as local businesses have effectively exploited incentives from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) which took effect in August 2020.
To promote trade and investment relations between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea, the Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese and the Korea-Vietnam Economic and Cultural Association recently organised the Vietnam - Korea Cooperation Forum in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam’s export-import turnover hit an estimated 108.5 billion USD in the first two months of this year, up 13 percent compared to the same period last year, the General Statistics Office reported on February 28.
The Tra fish industry aims to earn 1.6 billion USD from tra fish export, and produce between 1.6 – 1.7 million tonnes of tra fish products in 2022, according to Nhu Van Can, head of the Aquaculture Department of the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The northern border province of Lang Son has managed to maintain its role as a main gateway for border trade with the Chinese market, despite the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial services and import and export of goods in the locality.
The export turnover of wood and wood products hit 4.99 billion USD in the first four months of 2021, a surge of 50.5 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development.
Vietnam earned 3.26 billion USD from exporting fruit and vegetables in 2020, a year-on-year decline of 13 percent, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has reported.
Managing director of Indonesia’s national railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), Didiek Hartantos, said its revenue has plummeted 24.2 billion rupiah (1.6 million USD) a day due to the COVID-19 pandemic.