VN gains $244m trade surplus

HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam gained a trade surplus of US$244 million in the first two months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

During the first two months of this year, the nation saw a year-on-year increase of 12.3 per cent in total export value to reach $21.06 billion and of 17 per cent in total import value to reach $20.816 billion.

Le Thi Minh Thuy, head of the GSO's Trade Department, told Viet Nam News that the national trade surplus from the first two months was due to a trade surplus in the foreign direct investment (FDI) economic sector.