This year's export turnover has reached a record 39.5 billion USD, a 22 percent increase over last year, or more than 2 billion USD over the yearly target, according to the Trade Ministry.
Foreign invested businesses contributed 22.9 billion USD to the figure or a 42.5 percent year-on-year increase.
The country's leading staple exports include textiles and garments, footwear, seafood and electronic products. The garments and textiles sector took the lead in export turnover (excluding crude oil) with 5.9 billion USD, a 22 percent increase over last year, representing 14.9 percent of the country's total export revenues. Its largest market remained the US with an export value of 2.7 billion USD, which was followed by the EU and Japanese markets.
Footwear exports fetched about 3.5 billion USD, a 15 percent increase over last year and seafood, 3.4 billion USD, a 24 percent increase.
Rubber joined the 1 billion USD earners' club , with more than 1.3 billion USD export value. Thanks to the sharp increase of latex price, the sector has recorded an increase of 500 million USD over the plan or 64 percent over last year.
The 1 billion USD earners' club now has eight members, namely seafood, rubber, rice, crude oil, garments and textiles, footwear, electronic products and PC parts, and wooden products.
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