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