Eleven export commodities earn US$1 billion in revenue
These export commodities hit more than US$1 billion in the first half of 2013.
Among the highest earners were mobile phones (US$9.907 billion), followed by garments and computers (US$7.98 billion and US$4.712 billion, respectively).
Other commodities fetching more than US$1 billion each were footwear, crude oil, seafood, machinery, transport vehicles, timber products, coffee and rice.
According to the General Statistics Office, 15 countries in the world imported Vietnamese goods worth US$1 billion or more in past six months.
The United States was still the largest importer of Vietnamese goods worth US$8.846 billion, up US$1.276 billion from a year earlier.
Japan and China came second and third, importing goods worth US$5.289 billion and US$4.948 billion from Vietnam, respectively.
Other major export markets for Vietnamese goods were the Republic of Korea, Germany and Malaysia.
In the past six months, Vietnam’s total export revenues were estimated at US$62.053 billion, up 16.1 percent year on year.