The five commodities included phones and components, garment and textile and computers and electronic products.

Their corresponding export values in August were $4.4 billion, $2.9 billion and $$2.5 billion, respectively. The figures were up 13.9 per cent, 1 per cent and 0.2 per cent month-on-month.

The two other commodities were named as machinery, equipment and spare parts and footwear, with export values of $1.35 billion and $1.4 billion, up 3.6 per cent and down 2.5 per cent against last month, respectively.

Export values of the above five commodities totalled $12.55 billion, contributing up to 60 per cent of the country’s total export value in August.

Over the month, Viet Nam’s total export and import turnover was estimated at $41.9 billion, up 1.5 per cent over the previous month.

In particular, exports were estimated at $20.9 billion, up 2.9 per cent over the previous month, while imports were estimated at $21 billion, up 0.2 per cent from the previous month.

The total import and export turnover of the country in the first eight months was estimated at $308.07 billion, up 13 per cent over the same period of 2017. Of which export turnover was $155.4 billion, up 14.5 per cent and import turnover was $152.7 billion, up 11.6 per cent. — VNS