Three-month industrial and services exports surge (09/04)
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This also represents 75.7 percent of the country's total export turnover.
Garment and textiles earned $1.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 30 percent; wood products, $548 million, 25 percent; electronics and computer components, $441 million, 17 percent; and plastics, $144 million, 48.5 percent.
However, earnings from exports of crude oil declined by 14.7 percent due to a reduction in prices.
In the reviewed period, the Trade Ministry said that the country had grossed $1.26 billion from services exports, a year-on-year increase of 14.5 percent.
Tourism was the busiest sector, receiving over 1 million foreign tourists, 13 percent increase over the same period last year.
In total, Vietnam posted nearly $10.5 billion in export turnover in the first quarter of this year, marking a year-on-year increase of 18 percent.
The average $3.5 billion per month from export in the early months of this year is considered a satisfactory sign that the country is to fulfill its export turnover target of $47 billion for 2007..
Source: VNAgency
