The others include garments, footwear, crude oil, seafood, gemstones, wooden products, electrical goods, computers, machinery and vehicles.

Over the past nine months, the increasing prices of many commodities have helped to raise the country’s total export turnover to US$51.5 billion, up 23.2 percent year-on-year and four times the amount set out in the NA’s plan.

Around 48 percent of Vietnam’s exports went to the Asian market, followed by America with 23 percent and Europe on 22 percent.

The country saw its lowest trade deficit in recent years, around US$8.85 billion in the first nine months, equivalent to 16.7 percent of total export turnover.