Collect more than $US 1 billion of phone exports in the first half of February

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Thus, after the Lunar New Year holiday 2017, the value of export turnover of phones has risen significantly with an increase of nearly 17% compared with the second half of January 2017.

Notably, in comparison to the same period in 2016, the value of export turnover of phones also increased stronger up by 54.4%. With this strong growth, until the middle of February, telephone and components reached export turnover of nearly $US 3.5 billion, an increase of nearly 16% compared to the same period in 2016 and continues to be the largest exported item of our country.

Regarding exporting phones activity, according to information of export market by the end of January 2017 of the General Department of Customs, South Korea is the largest export market for this commodity.

Based on the latest statistics of the General Department of Customs, in January 2017, our country exported phone to 37 countries and regions, especially exporting phone and components to South Korea reached $US 229.6 million, compared to $US 125.6 million over the same period in 2016, equivalent to the rise of 107.7%.

Meanwhile, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - the largest export market for many years has fallen from $US 365 million in the month of January 2016 to $US 228.5 million in January 2017, equivalent to a decline of 37.4%.

Besides these two major markets South Korea and the UAE, in January 2017, it many large export markets of exporting phone were up to $US 100 million including the United States reached $US 206.8 million; Austria reached $US 163.3 million; Italy reached $US 144.8 million; and Hong Kong reached $US 112.3 million.