Mobile phones and components remain in the lead amongst the group of ten products that foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) earned from exporting between January 1 and March 15, 2016.

Ten sectors of FIEs have had the highest export value, comprising mobile phones and components, textile and garment, computers and electric units, footwear, machinery, and seafood, transportation vehicles, coffee, and bags and suitcases (see chart below).

According to Vietnam Customs’ statistics released on March 22, FIEs’ export-import value between January 1 and March 15 reached $39.56 billion, or 65.3 per cent of Vietnam’s total.

Notably, foreign enterprises’ export value was $21.63 billion, up 6.4 per cent on-year.

IEs’ import value between  January 1 and March 15 of this year reached $17.93 billion, decreasing 7.8 per cent on-year.

Production mainly centred around, yet again, ten sectors, namely computers and components, machinery, mobile phones and components, fabric, iron and steel, plastics, textile and garment materials, metals, and oil and petrol products (see chart below).

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