Exports to France surpasses US$1 billion
(VOV) - Vietnam’s exports to France hit more than US$1 billion in the first half of this year, up 6.3% on the same period last year.
According to the Trade and Industry Information Centre (TIIC) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), products exported to France are diverse, such as footwear, garment, utensils, agriculture, forestry and seafood products, electrical equipment, electronics and rubber.
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Telephones and its components topped the list of export commodities with more than US$383 million in revenue (up 25.1%), followed by computers, electrical products and components with US$112.7 million (up 156.9%) and footwear with US$109.8 million (down 15.3%).
Some other items also achieved high export growth, such as garment, pepper, confectionary and cereals.
Vietnam is currently negotiating Free Trade Agreement with the EU in an effort to reduce import taxes for some of its products.