Vietnam shipped overseas US$130.94 billion worth of goods in the first five months of 2021, up 30.7% annually, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The Prime Minister has tasked the Ministry of Industry and Trade with removing difficulties in the consumption of agricultural products, especially lychee, for Bac Giang province that is now the country’s COVID-19 hotspot.

VOV.VN - Following the first consignment of Vietnamese lychees arriving in Japan, a total of five tonnes of fresh lychees originating from the northern province of Bac Giang are being exported to the United States.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has said that the Vietnam Trade Office in Japan is continuing to coordinate with relevant domestic authorities as well as supermarket networks and distributors in Japan to promote Vietnamese lychees among Japanese consumers.

A year after Japan first opened its market to Vietnamese lychees, the export and consumption of the fruit have been going smoothly despite COVID-19, Vietnam’s trade office in the Northeast Asian country said.

VOV.VN - Tan Yen district in the northern province of Bac Giang which is renowned for lychee growing in Vietnam, hosted a ceremony on May 26 to mark the shipment of 15 tonnes of its lychees to Japan.

More than 3,600 tonnes of fresh lychees from the northern provinces of Hai Duong, Bac Giang and Vinh Phuc were exported to China via Lao Cai province’s Kim Thanh II international border gate from May 8 to 24.

VOV.VN - Thanh Ha lychees originating from the northern province of Hai Duong have been officially put on sale on Sendo, one of the nation’s leading online marketplaces, from May 24 to May 27.

VOV.VN - A batch of fresh lychees grown in Thanh Ha district of the northern province of Hai Duong arrived in Japan on May 22 to cater to local consumer tastes.

The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Vietnam Trade Office in Japan will jointly organise an online conference on June 2 to promote connections in a bid to increase the export of Vietnamese farm produce to Japan.