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Update news trade balance
In the first half of August, the trade balance had a deficit of more than 100 million USD, but from the beginning of the year to August 15, the country had a trade surplus of 1.39 billion USD.
Vietnam’s trade turnover reached more than US$493.7 billion from the beginning of this year to mid-December, statistics from the General Department of Customs revealed.
The proposed tariff cut is aimed to balance bilateral trade relations.
Vietnam recorded a trade surplus in the past four years, but the National Assembly (NA), wary of uncertainties over global trade conflicts, has set the target of containing the country’s trade deficit versus its total export value below 3% for 2020.
Vietnam’s trade balance sustained an estimated deficit of up to US$1.3 billion during May, leading to the total trade deficit amounting to US$548 million for the year’s first five months.
VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Tuan Anh, Minister of Industry and Trade talks to the newspaper Hai Quan (Customs) on how to make the best use of free-trade agreements that have been signed.
VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Ahn Chong Ghee has expressed his government’s desire to strike a trade balance between the two countries.
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