Trade surplus worth US$64 million
(VOV) - The country’s trade surplus in the past 10 months of the year hit US$64 million, according to the Vietnam Customs.
By the end of October 2012, the country’s total import-export turnover reached US$187.5 billion, up 12.5 percent from a year earlier.
Of the figure, exports increased by 18.9 percent to US$93.8 billion, and imports by 6.7 percent to US$93.74 billion, against the same period last year.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade said total import-export value in October alone rose 9 percent to US$20.5 billion compared to September.
By the end of October, foreign-invested businesses earned US$101.2 billion (up 29.9 percent), making up 54 percent of the country’s total import-export turnover.
Topping export items with high revenue were cameras and components, telephones, computers, electronics, means of transport, wood products, crude oil, footwear, garment and textile, and seafood.
Among import items seeing a rise in turnover were mechanics, equipment, spare parts, materials for the garment and textile sector, footwear, oil and gas, computers, telephones, iron, steel and cattle feed.