Netherlands – Vietnam’s fruitful export market in EU

Vietnam’s  imported products that has a competitive edge like electronics and components, telephones, footwear, garments and textiles, seafood, cashew nuts, machinery, equipment and tools, plastic products, bags, suitcases, umbrellas, means of transport, fruit and vegetables, and various toys, also posted a relatively high growth rate of 10-40% per year.

The Netherlands was also the EU’s largest consumer of Vietnamese cashew nuts and seafood with import values of US$303.6 million and US$541.8 million, up 48.8% and 41.8%, respectively.

Contrary to the high export growth in the aforementioned products, last year, the exports of other products such as coffee, pepper, and rice dropped by more than 20%.