Vietnam's export to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members is expected to increase nearly 21.9 percent to 7.8 billion U.S. dollars this year, according to local trade agency on Thursday.

Specifically, Vietnam's exports to Singapore and Malaysia are estimated to respectively rise to 1.8 billion dollars and 1.3 billion dollars in 2007, and 2.7 billion dollars and 2.1 billion dollars in 2010 from 1.5 billion dollars and 1.2 billion dollars in 2006, said the Asia-Pacific Department under the Vietnamese Trade Ministry.

Vietnam is set to earn 1.3 billion dollars from selling goods to Indonesia, 1.1 billion dollars to Thailand, and one billion to Cambodia in 2007, up from one billion dollars, 950 million dollars and 770 million dollars in 2006 respectively.

Vietnam exported products worth nearly 6.4 billion dollars to the other ASEAN members, which groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, in 2006, according to the ministry.

The ministry has recently said Vietnam could gain total export revenues of over 47.5 billion dollars this year, up from 39.6 billion dollars last year.

Source: Xinhua