Processing shrimp for exports (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’s
seafood export turnover in the first 11 months of 2020 hit
7.75 billion USD, down 0.9 percent from the same period last year, according to
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
In November alone, the country raked in 800 million USD from exporting seafood,
with 418.99 million USD from shrimp and 174.64 from Tra (pangasius) fish.
The US, Japan, mainland China and the Republic of Korea (RoK) were the major import markets of Vietnamese seafood
products in the last 11 months, making up nearly 60 percent of total export
value, the ministry said.
Vietnam also spent 1.59 billion USD on importing seafood during
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The
Hoa Phat Group has reported some 700 million USD worth
of imports from Australia this year, more than double the figure from last year
and making the industrial manufacturer the largest Vietnamese client of the
country.
More than
half of the total import value, or 364 million USD, came from coal, compared to
just 115 million USD in 2019.
The
group’s purchases of iron ore leapt a whopping 19-times to 123 million USD in
the first eleven months of the year.
Hoa Phat
bought more coal and iron ore this year to serve production at its iron and
The
Japan Centre for Economic Research (JCER) has predicted that Vietnam will become an upper-middle-income country in 2023, and its
GDP will surpass that of China’s Taiwan in 2035. (Photo: VNA)
Tokyo (VNA) – The
Japan Centre for
Economic Research (JCER) has predicted that Vietnam will become an
upper-middle-income country in 2023, and its GDP will surpass that of China’s Taiwan
in 2035.
The JCER recently released a medium-term
forecast of Asian economies entitled “Asia in the coronavirus disaster: Which
countries are emerging?”, which addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
and looks at how Asian economies are faring compared with others around the