Viet Nam-UK bilateral trade falls back in 2014

HA NOI (VNS) — The bilateral trade turnover between Viet Nam and the United Kingdom reached GBP2.8 billion (US$4.5 billion) last year, reflecting a year-on-year drop of 2 per cent.

The numbers were recently released by the commerce division of the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK.

Of the total, the embassy said, Viet Nam's export value to the UK came to somewhere around $3.95 billion. The key export products were mobile phones, garments and textiles, footwear and timber furniture.