The
Vietnam Customs Statistics announced that in the first half (01-15/11/2019) of December-2019 , Vietnam’s total exports of US dollars 10.02 billion and imports of US
dollars 10.32 billion resulted in a trade deficit of nearly US dollars 299 million.
Accordingly, the total value of export and import turnover of Vietnam in the
first half of December was US dollars 20.35 billion, down by 7.2% as compared
to the second half of November-2019.
Vietnam‘s
trade-in-goods from January to the first half of December of 2019 totaled US
dollars 492.71 billion in value terms. It posted a growth of 7.1% (equivalent
to USD 32.75 billion) from the same period of the previous year
In
the view of FDI traders, the value of exportation and
importation in the first half of December reached USD 12.02 billion, down by 9.9%
as compared to the second half of November 2019. Therefore, from January to December
15th of 2019, the total value of FDI merchandise trade went up 8.7%
to US dollar 309.9 billion.
Export:
When
compared with the second half of November-2019, export of the first half of December
was down by 14.5%, mostly as a result of the climb-down registered in
telephone, mobile phone and part thereof (down by 37.2% - USD 820 million); machine
tools and equipments (down by 17% - USD 159 million); foot-wear (down by 12.9%
- USD 116 million); textiles and garments (down by 6.8% - USD 90 million); computers,
electrical products and part thereof (down by 3.6% - USD 60 million); …
Chart 1: Top 10 main exported
commodities of Vietnam from Jan. to December 15th 2019 as compared
to the same period of 2018.
Import:
In
the first half of December 2019, import was up by 1.2% when compared with the
second half of November, mainly reflecting the widen of crude oil (up by USD 127
million); animal fodders and animal fodder materials (up by 70.5% - USD 74
millions equally); machine, equipment, tools and instruments (up by 4.1% - USD
64 million); computers, electrical products and part thereof (up by 2.1% - USD 43
million)…
Chart 2: Top 10 main imported
commodities of Vietnam from Jan. to December 15th 2019 as compared
to the same period of 2018.
