Eighty-eight projects worth more than 1.3 billion USD, are in operation, including 24 FDI projects worth 227 million USD. It earned 36.37 billion USD from agro-forestry-fisheries export, over 4 billion USD higher than the same period last year, and posted a trade surplus of 8.55 billion USD, up more than 1 billion USD year-on-year. The country’s imports lowered from 46.7 billion USD in 2016 to 45 billion USD in 2017. In November, Vietnam earned only 12.63 million USD from exports to Algeria, down from 38.8 million USD in May and 36.5 million USD in June. Tien Giang targets 2.65 billion USD in export revenueThe Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang will strive to raise its export revenue by 6 percent to 2.65 billion USD in 2018.

Source: VietNamNet News January 03, 2018 11:26 UTC