Preliminary assessment of Vietnam international merchandise trade performance in the second half of January, 2016

Vietnam‘s trade-in-goods in January, 2016 totaled US dollars 25.96 billion in value terms which went down by 6.0% as compared to the performance of same period last year. In which, the total merchandise exports valued US dollars 13.36 billion, decreased 1.0.% and the total merchandise imports valued US dollars 12.60 billion, shrunk by 10.7%. In the view of Foreign Direct Invested (FDI) traders, the total value of exportation and importation in the second half of January reached over USD 8.60 billion, up by 12.7% in comparison to first half of January 2016. In the first month of 2016,FDI traders was in trade surplus of USD 1.86 billion (exports was US dollars 9.04, declined by 0.9% and imports was nearly US dollars 7.18 billion, went down by 13.0%).

Export:

As compared to the first half of January, 2016, second half of the month upsurge in the total export value (24.9% - USD 1.48 billion equally) is reflected by upturns in: textiles and garments (up by USD 235 million); telephone, mobile phone and part thereof (up by USD 152 million); other means of transportation (up by USD 140 million); foot-wear (up by USD 119 million) … 

Import:  

The first half to second half of January increase in the total of import value (4.4%) reflected upturns in: computer, electrical products, spare-parts and component thereof (up by USD 109 million); telephone, mobile phone and part thereof (up by USD 80 million); iron and steels (up by USD 78 million); …