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Vol. 5 Num 839 Thu. October 05, 2006  
   
Business


Hanoi rubber export surges


Vietnam, the world's fourth biggest natural rubber exporter, shipped abroad 493,000 tons of rubber worth 946 million US dollars in the first nine months of this year, posting respective year-on-year surges of 32.5 percent and 97.1 percent, according to a local trade agency.

China remained Vietnam's biggest rubber export market in the nine-month period with an average of 100 tons of the local product daily exported to the neighbour country in August, according to the Trade Information Center under the Vietnamese Trade Ministry.

Last year, Vietnam sold overseas 574,000 tons of rubber valued at 787 million dollars, mainly to China, South Korea, Japan, Germany and the United States, up 11.9 percent and 31.9 percent respectively, against 2004.