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Trade gap in 2006 at $4.8bil

06/08/2010 - 249 Lượt xem

Foreign invested enterprises had the highest export turnover, fetching $22.9bil, up by 23.2% over 2005, while domestically invested enterprises saw exports up by 20.5%.
Asia remains the biggest export market for

Vietnam

, consuming 53% of

Vietnam

’s exports. Southeast Asian countries imported 31.5% of

Vietnam

’s total Asian exports,

Japan

, 24.9%, and

China

, 15.4%.
Exports to

America

saw the highest growth rate in 2006, at 33.4%, accounting for 23% of total exports (the

market alone accounts for 21.3%). Meanwhile, exports to the European market rose 27% (19% of total); the 25-member EU market accounted for 16.9%, an increase of 23.5%.
Total import turnover in 2006 was estimated to reach $44.4bil, increasing by 20.1% over 2005. Domestically invested enterprises imported $28bil worth of products and equipment, accounting for 63.2% of total imports (up by 20.2%), while foreign invested enterprises imported $16.4bil worth of products, or 36.8% of totals, up by 19.9%.
Items that saw big import increases were: 1. paper of different kinds (+30.4%), plastic materials (+26.9%), fibre of various kinds (+62.1%), cotton (+34.7%), electronics, computers and accessories (+20.5%), fabric (+23.1%).
Equipment and machineries also saw the sharp increase of imports, at 24.1%, reaching the import turnover of $6.5bil, while petrol import turnover was $5.8bil, up by 16.4% compared to 2005.
Imports of materials serving as input materials for the apparel and footwear industries increased by 9.6% over 2005. Meanwhile, imports of automobiles were down by 27.4%, car parts down by 37.6%, ingot steel by 7.6% and urea by 21.1%.