Footwear and garment-textile, two majorexport items of the province, totalled over 3.5 billion USD in the period.
Of the figure, footwear exports earned 2.4billion USD for the province, rising 15.6 percent against the same period lastyear; while 1.13 billion USD came from garment-textile exports, up 3.7 percentyear-on-year.
The Vietnam Leather, Footwear and HandbagAssociation has stated that Vietnam’s leather product and footwear sector stillmaintains competitive advantages in traditional export markets.
In addition, the Comprehensive andProgressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which took effectin early 2019, has helped the sector reach out to markets in the Americas,including potential ones of Mexico and Canada.
Also in the first seven months, exports ofmachinery and device stood at 935 million USD, wooden products 806 million USD,iron and steel 428 million USD, among others.
Leading export markets of the provinceinclude the US, Japan, China, the Republic of Korea, Belgium, Thailand, Germanyand Australia. -VNA