Dong Nai: US$1.7 billion in trade surplus in ten months
The southern province of Dong Nai enjoyed a trade surplus of US$1.7 billion in the January-October period, according to the provincial statistic office.
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The country’s exports in the first ten months of this year totalled at over US$13.8 billion, up 11.3% from the same time last year. Of the figure, US$11.9 billion was contributed by the foreign-invested sector, over US$1.7 billion by the non-State economic sector and US$170 million by the State economic sector.
Groups of products seeing high export values comprised footwear (US$262 million, up 25%), garment (US$164 million, up 8.2%), fiber (US$121 million, up 6.18%), wood products (US$115 million, up 8.8%) and machineries and spare parts (US$103 million, up 4.1%).
Meanwhile, the province’s import turnover was over US$12.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.2%. The State economic sector contributed US$87 million, while the non-State economic sector and the foreign-invested sector made up US$1.56 billion and US$10.4 billion, respectively.
Items seeing high import turnover were chemicals (US$450 million, up 12.2%), plastic materials (US$981 million, up 17.4%) and computers and electronic equipment (over US$456 million, up 25.3%).
