Hanoi (VNA) – Trade between Vietnam andIsrael reached 236.58 million USD in the first two months of this year,according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Israel.
Vietnam’s export to the nation expanded4.5 percent while its import was up 376.1 percent year-on-year, said Counsellor Le Thai Hoa.
Vietnam’s import of Israeli computers, and electronicproducts and components of big values has a role to play in a trade deficit of19.62 million USD during the reviewed period.
In the two months, Vietnam shipped over 6.24 millionUSD worth of tuna to Israel, making up 6.6 percent of the country’s turnover from its total export of the fish, and down 32 percent year-on-year.
Vietnam’s frozen cuttlefish export value to Israel was 752,000 USD, accounting for 1.14 percent of the total of the food, and up335.6 percent compared with the same period last year.
Israel is oneof Vietnam’s 10 biggest tuna and cuttlefish importers.
The office projected that during thefirst quarter of this year, Vietnam’s export value to Israel will excess 163million USD and its import value, about 192 million USD./.
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