Export turnover reaches over US$4.8 billion in 9 months of 2008

Concerning local businesses, inflation leads to the increase in price of raw materials and in turn makes the output and export turnover of some item considerably go down e.g output of shelled cashew nut is only 88.7 percent  as much as the same period; turnover of ceramics, chopsticks made of baamboo and fine-art handicradft goods is 81-82 percent as much as the same period.

Estimations of import turnover in the 9 months are more than US$6.2 billion, up 28.6 percent or 75.9 percent of the planned target. Main imported items of local businesses are raw materials used for production of cigarettes, medicine and industrial chemicals.

Reported Hoang Anh, Translated by Tuyenvanah