Recovery faster than expected
Foreign trade booms
Industry, retail, foreign trade data coming up
Due to huge drop in imports
2020 foreign trade surplus up 32% yr/yr
Import show increase both m/m and yr/yr
Exports up 4.6%, imports down 2.4% yr/yr
In August, as coronavirus upsets downtime schedule
Imports and exports are still lower than a year earlier
EU-Vietnam trade agreement enters into force
Recovery from coronavirus crisis has begun.
Minister announces support
Export and import both plummet
As exports fall 37% and imports 28%
Worse figures since 2008-2009 crisis
Trade surplus not hit by coronavirus in Q1
Imports already hit by global spread of virus