The State sector announced a trade deficit of US$9.7 billion while the foreign-invested sector posted a trade surplus of US$11.2 billion.
The total export value in the first six months attained US$82.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%, of which the State sector and foreign-invested sector contributed US$23.7 billion and US$58.5 billion, up 3.3% and 6.9%, respectively.
Viet Nam made imports worth $80.7 billion, down 0.5% compared to the same period last year. Of the figure, the State sector and the foreign-invested sector respectively posted US$33.4 billion and US$47.3 billion, up 1.3% and down 1.8%.
