Total exports from January to April reached US$3.395 billion, up 0.2% against the same period last year. Of the figure, local exporters got US$2.613 billion, up 0.1%.
Products with high export growth included garment (up 22.7%), means of transports and tools (up 20.8%) while products seeing export decline are agricultural products (down 19.5%) and computer components and peripheral equipment (down 19.7%).
The capital city’s imports in April are estimated at US$1.754 billion, bringing the total import value for four months to US$7.325 billion, down 5.1% over the same period last year.
Imports of most products tend to decline compared to last year, such as chemical (down 24.7%), plastics (down 15.9%) and fertilizers (down 5.6%).
Hanoi’s Statistics Office also reported that industrial production obtained quite a high growth. The industrial production index (IPI) increased by 8.7% in the first four months of this year.
