Vietnam imported more than 239,000 tonnes of meat and meat products worth $480 million in the first five months of this year. The number climbed by roughly 1.6% in terms of quantity but declined by 9.1% in terms of value, according to the General Department…
Vietnam spent US$2.04 billion to import animal feed and raw materials for the production of this kind of commodity in the first five months of this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The figure marks a year-on-year…
All 12 members of the Vehicles Importers Vietnam Association (VIVA) have asked the Government to reduce the registration fee on imported cars by 50% to spur demand. VIVA proposed in the context of a sharp drop in sales and gloomy market forecasts. According…
Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable exports in the first two months of this year increased by 17.8% year-on-year to US$592 million. China accounted for 57.5% of the exports, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s department of agricultural…
Indonesia surpassed Thailand as Vietnam’s largest car exporter in 2022, with 72,671 cars exported. According to statistics released by Vietnam Customs, Vietnam imported 173,467 cars in 2022, an 8.5% increase from 2021. Indonesia, Thailand and China were the…
Auto imports rose by 8.4% last year to a record 173,467 units, which cost US$3.84 billion according to Vietnam Customs. The previous highest number was over 160,000 in 2021. Indonesia and Thailand were the biggest sources of the imports last year, accounting…
Vietnamese garment and seafood exports to Canada have surged 50% year-on-year, totaling values of $1.1 billion and $334 million, respectively. As the two categories saw the most significant increases in exports to Canada of the last three years, other…
Vietnam ranks fourth in Southeast Asia in auto production in the first 10 months at 362,000 units, up 16.4% year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office. Thailand leads the region with nearly 1.6 million units made in the period, followed by…
Frozen pork imports nearly tripled in the first 10 months of this year to 332,000 tons, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs. Also imported were 350,000 pigs on the hoof from Thailand, a 50 percent increase year on year. Together they cost…
The number of imported cars in Vietnam rose 61 percent to 129,733 units in the first 10 months this year. Passenger vehicles saw a rise of 50 percent to 90,029 units, according to Vietnam Customs. In October, the three major import markets were Thailand with…
Only 17 percent of the most popular goods on e-commerce platforms since last year have been Vietnamese, a market research firm said. Malaysian market research firm iPrice Group said in a report that 83 percent of the 1,200 most sought-after items were…
Vietnam has decided to stop importing live pigs from Thailand starting June 30 after 980 of them were found infected with African swine fever. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development took the decision to stop imports to try and prevent the disease…
The Indonesian Anti-dumping Committee has concluded that Vietnam is dumping cold steel sheets following a 16-month-long investigation. Indonesia will apply anti-dumping duties of 3.01-49.2 percent on imports from Vietnam. But some major exporters are set to…
Auto imports in January rose to 8,343 completely built units worth $212.5 million, up 84.7 percent and 76.2 percent year-on-year, respectively. Most of car imports are from Thailand and Indonesia, at an average price range of VND350 million ($15,000) to VND…
Vietnam’s tuna exports declined by 9.8 percent in 2020 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and are showing no signs of recovery. Analysts point to two reasons for the continuing slump: the unpredictability surrounding the pandemic and intense…
The U.S. has imported double the quantity of Vietnamese mangoes in Jan-August 2020, showing potential for further growth in this market. The value of mango imports rose 99.9 percent year-on-year to $2.79 million, according to a report by the Agency of Foreign…