Fourteen products earn US$1 billion export

VGP – As many as 14 products have earned an export turnover of more than US$1 billion each as by July, according to the General Statistics Office.

August 01, 2013 6:20 PM GMT+7

Phones led the list, bringing home more than US$11.6 billion, up 87% against the same period last year.

The others included garments (nearly US$9.64 billion), electronic goods and computers (US$5.7 billion), footwear (nearly US$4.8 billion), crude oil (US$4.3 billion), seafood (US$3.4 billion), machinery (more than US$3.1 billion), vehicles (nearly US$2.97 billion), wooden products (US$2.9 billion), coffee (US$1.9 billion), rice (more than US$1.87 billion), rubber (US$1.22 billion), bags and umbrellas (US$1.08 billion) and iron and steel (US$1.02 billion).

In addition to those, plastic product was nearly hitting the export turnover of US$1 billion as its stood at US$989 million, up 9.7% from the same time last year.

By Thuy Dung