Vietnam'S Imports In The First 5 Months Of This Year Decreased By 0.9% Compared With The Same Period Last Year.

According to statistics from the General Bureau of statistics of Vietnam, Vietnam's imports amounted to about $15 billion in May (2016), an increase of 6.6% over the previous month (4), of which the amount of imports from the Vietnamese funded enterprises increased by about 7.1% US dollars, and the import volume of foreign-funded enterprises was about 8 billion 600 million US dollars, an increase of 6.2%.

Compared with the same period last year, the amount of imports in the first 5 months of this year was about US $66 billion 300 million, a decrease of 0.9% compared with the same period last year, of which the amount of imports from Vietnamese enterprises was 27 billion 200 million US dollars, an increase of 0.7%, and the import amount of foreign-funded enterprises was 39 billion 100 million US dollars, a decrease of 1.9%.

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The import volume increased by 10 billion 600 million over the same period last year, including electronic products, computers and parts, which increased by 12.4%.

4 billion 200 million US dollars, an increase of 4.1%, plastic $2 billion 400 million, an increase of 3%, textile garments and

And other raw materials 2 billion 100 million US dollars, an increase of 3.3%, plastic products 1 billion 700 million US dollars, an increase of 18.4%, chemical products 1 billion 400 million US dollars, an increase of 8.4%, drugs 1 billion US dollars, an increase of 25.2%.

The import volume of some products decreased compared with the same period last year, including other machinery and equipment and parts of 10 billion 400 million US dollars, a decrease of 8.6%, a variety of phones and parts of 4 billion 200 million US dollars, a decrease of 4.8%, 2 billion 300 million US dollars, a decrease of 1.4%, of which the total vehicle was 927 million US dollars, a decrease of 23%, oil 1 billion 900 million US dollars, a decrease of 21.2%, and feed and its raw materials 1 billion 200 million dollars, reducing the number of 1 billion 200 million.

Regarding the source of imports, mainland China is still the largest source of imports in Vietnam in the first 5 months of this year, and imports from China about US $19 billion 200 million, a decrease of 2.9% compared with the same period last year, a decrease of 4.2% from the ASEAN Association of imports, a decrease of 4.2% from Japan, a reduction of 6.4% from Japan, a decrease of 3.7% from the European Union's imports, 3 billion 200 million imports from the United States, an increase of 4.4%, and an increase in imports from South Korea.

In May this year, the trade deficit was about 400 million dollars.

The cumulative trade surplus in the first 5 months of this year was about US $1 billion 360 million, of which the trade deficit of Vietnamese enterprises was US $7 billion 740 million, and foreign trade surplus (including crude oil) was US $9 billion 100 million.