4:17:44 PM | 22/10/2012
Vietnam’s trade gained a surplus of US$143 million in the first nine months of the year, according to Vietnam Customs.
Two-way trade value in the second half of September 2012 was US$ 9.62 billion, up 6.5 percent against the first half of the month, the Customs office reported.
As of late September, the country’s total trade turnover reached US$166.96 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 12 percent.
Of the figure, export was around US$83.55 billion, up 18.6 percent and import, US$83.41 billion, up 6.1 percent.
The FDI sector gained an export value of US$45.95 billion, up 37.3 percent against the same period last year and accounted for 55 percent of the country’s total export turnover.
In the first nine months, the sector imported US$43.59 billion in goods, which surged by 24 percent from the same time last year and made up 52.3 percent of the nation’s import turnover.
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