Vietnam is estimated to gain export turnovers of 26.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months of this year, compared with over 22.3 billion dollars in the same period last year, the General Statistics Office said on Thursday.
In July alone, Vietnam is set to earn nearly 4.3 billion dollars from shipping abroad goods, mainly crude oil, garments and textiles, rubber, pepper, rice and seafood.
Between January and July, products posting high export growth in earnings include coffee with a surge of 102 percent, plastic products with 49 percent, electric wires and cables with 47 percent, and pepper with 17 percent.
Meanwhile, key items with big export revenues include crude oil with over 4.4 billion dollars; textiles and garments, 4.2 billion dollars; footwear, nearly 2.4 billion dollars; and seafood, roughly 2 billion dollars.
Vietnam posted export turnovers of 39.6 billion dollars in 2006, up 22.1 percent against 2005.
Source: Xinhua
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