In the first 8 months of this year, Vietnam spent nearly 1.26 billion USD importing vegetables and fruits, of which imports from China increased by 74% over the same period last year and accounted for more than 37% of total import turnover.
Vietnam’s import of vegetables and fruits from China in the first eight months of the year increased by more than 74% over the same period last year while the export of this group of products to this country decreased by 32.4% over the same period. Illustration: TL
According to a report of the General Department of Customs, in August, imports of fruit and vegetable products reached more than 197 million USD, up 10.7% over the previous month and up nearly 68% over the same period last year.
Statistics of the General Department of Customs show that, during the above period, Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable imports from China increased dramatically, reaching more than 85.4 million USD, an increase of more than 16.7% compared to previous month and increased by 144% over the same period last year.
During the same period, the US also exported more than 35 million worth USD of vegetables and fruits to Vietnam, up 83% over the same period last year.
The high import result of August has brought the country’s total import turnover of fruit and vegetable products in the first eight months of the year to nearly 1.26 billion USD, up 33.1% over the same period last year.
According to the customs authority, it is worth noting that the Chinese market alone accounted for 37.52% of the country’s fruit and vegetable import turnover with a turnover of 472.83 million USD, a sharp increase of 74% over the same period last year, equivalent to an increase in turnover of more than 200 million USD. This is also the market that supplies the most vegetables and fruits to the Vietnamese market and far exceeds other import markets.
After China is the US, with a turnover of 213.5 million USD (up 5.84%), ranked 2nd and Australia over 104 million USD (up over 18%), ranked 3rd.
During the same period, Vietnam also spent 89 million USD to import vegetables and fruits from New Zealand; 73.7 million USD from Myanmar; 45 million USD from South Africa and 32.5 million USD from Thailand…
The two countries with a sharp increase in vegetable and fruit export turnover to Vietnam in the past eight months are South Africa with an increase of nearly 70% and New Zealand with an increase of nearly 25% over the same period last year.
In the opposite direction, Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable exports to other countries in the same period decreased by 12.8% over the same period last year, reaching 2.2 billion USD. Most of this decline in export value is from the Chinese market.
According to data from the General Department of Customs, Vietnam’s vegetables and fruits exported to China reached nearly 967.5 million USD, down 32.4% over the same period last year. Behind the Chinese market is the US market with nearly 180 million USD, up 19%.
Exports to the Southeast Asian market increased by 30.7% over the same period, reaching 220.33 million USD; exports to the Korean market increased by 16.6%, reaching 125 million USD, accounting for 5.7%.
In general, except for the Chinese market, which suffered a sharp decline, Vietnam’s vegetables and fruits exported to most other markets in the first eight months of 2022 increased in turnover compared to the same period last year.
@ Saigon Times
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Source: Vietnam Insider