HANOI, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent 211.1 billion U.S. dollars importing products in 2017, up 20.8 percent from 2016, the General Statistics Office said on Wednesday.
Specifically, domestic sector accounted for 84.7 billion U.S. dollars of import turnovers, up 17 percent, and foreign-invested sector made up 126.4 billion U.S. dollars, up 23.4 percent.
Vietnam spent 37.5 billion U.S. dollars importing electronics, computers and their components this year, up 34.4 percent; 33.6 billion U.S. dollars on machines, tools and their spare parts, up 17.9 percent; 16.2 billion U.S. dollars on phones and their components, up 53.2 percent; 11.4 billion U.S. dollars on cloth, up 9.2 percent; 9.1 billion U.S. dollars on iron and steel, up 13 percent; 7.4 billion U.S. dollars on plastic, up 17.5 percent; and 7 billion U.S. dollars on petroleum products, up 37.7 percent.
Smaller import turnovers were reported in some products, including animal feed and materials for feed production (down 6.3 percent to 3.2 billion U.S. dollars), automobiles (down 10.5 percent to 5.3 billion U.S. dollars), and other kinds of means of transport and their spare parts (down 40.3 percent to 830 million U.S. dollars).
As for markets, China remained Vietnam's biggest import market with turnovers of 58.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, tailed by South Korea, the ASEAN, Japan, the European Union and the United States, said the office.
