DongNai (VNA) – Thesouthern province of Dong Nai achieved a trade surplus of 2.6 billion USDfor 2018, reported the provincial People’s Committee.
The province’s export turnover hit 18.6 billion USD during the year, arise of 11.7 percent against 2017, with hard currency earners including garment-textiles,footwear, electrics, machinery, farm produce, steel, and fibre.
Commodities with large export value were footwearwith 3.7 billion USD, up 9.3 percent year-on-year; steel products at 724million USD, up 16.8 percent; garment-textiles at 2.14 billion USD, up 13.7percent; and computers and components at 661 million USD, up 10.7 percent.
The main importers of enterprises in Dong Nai are China, the US, Japan, the Republicof Korea, Belgium, Germany, and Russia.
Meanwhile, the province splashed out 16 billion USD on imports, mainlymaterials for production such as animal feed, chemicals, plastic products, andmetals.
Lastyear, the province recorded nearly 2.2 billion USD in trade surplus, making up77 percent of the country’s total of 2.7 billion USD.-VNA