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China came second as exports to the northern neighbour reached 1.88 billion USD
in the period, with a 30.53 percent market share, surging 57.9 percent against
the same period last year.
It was followed by ASEAN countries, the European Union, Japan and the Republic
of Korea.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced that import-export
value of agro-forestry-fisheries products hit nearly 11 billion USD
in January-February, resulting in 1.37 billion USD in trade surplus, up 28.4
percent against the same period last year.
The ministry reported that a year-on-year rise was recorded in the export value
of many products such as rubber, tea, cashew, vegetables and fruit and forestry
products.
Of particular note, rubber exports raked in 516 million USD, a year-on-year rise
of 9.9 percent; shipments of tea topped 29 million USD, representing an increase
of 11.1 percent; and those of cashew 442 million USD, up 21.5 percent.
In February alone, agro-fishery-forestry product exports hit 2.78 billion USD,
rising 3 percent against the same month last year.
Source: VNA
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