Cashew nut exports on the rise
VOV.VN - Vietnam shipped 34,000 tons of cashew nuts abroad in August to earn US$277 million, bringing the total export volume in eight months to 225,000 tons with a value of US$1.76 billion, up 5% in volume and 12.7% in value against the same period last year.
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The US, Netherlands and China remained the three largest importers of Vietnam cashew nuts, accounting for 33.4%, 13.5% and 13.1% of the total export value respectively.
Markets with high import growth in the period included Israel (39.3%), the UK (24.2%), China (23.1%), the Netherlands (20.2%), Germany (19.4%) and Italy (19.3%).
MARD also reported that Vietnam imported 156,000 tons of raw cashew nuts worth US$239 million in August. Totally, 725,000 tons of raw cashew nuts were imported in eight months, which cost US$842 million, up 3.7% in volume but down 5.4% in value.
