Import/Export

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on December 3 asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to coordinate with authorities to restrict the import of nonessential goods and boost exports. Imports for the first 11 months of the year were estimated at US$10.4 billion, equivalent to 20.3 percent of the country’s …

Information on Vietnam’s market and 20,000 exporters is available for foreign traders via a new website, the Vietnam Export Portal (VNEX), officially launched Wednesday. The new English language site at: www.vnex.com.vn was built by the E-commerce and Information Technology Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. It is grouped …

Vietnamese Prime Minister has urged ministries and agencies to constrain the country’s trade deficit below 20% of its total export value this year. The cabinet leader also requested the abovementioned agencies to take measures to boost exports, aiming to raise the country’s export value by 6% on-year to US$60 billion …

Vietnam’s export value reached US$4.9 billion, an increase of 28.1 percent against the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). The GSO attributed the increase in export value to contributions from the foreign direct investment sector with an export turnover of US$2.6 billion, representing a 32.9 …