China was the country’s biggest import market of footwear and leather materials of Vietnam in the period with the import value of $ 1.7 billion, accounted for 37.4 per cent of the total and increased by 10.4 per cent over the same period last year. It was followed by South Korea with $ 628.28 million, down by 3.4 per cent; and then Taiwan - $ 416.05 million, up by 5.5 per cent; and the U.S - $ 293.54 million, up by 25 per cent.

The country’s imports of textile, garment, leather and footwear materials from EU reached $ 264.16 million, up by 7.2 per cent year – on – year and the imports from the South East Asian countries reached $ 254.9 million, up by 11 per cent.

In the first ten months of this year, Vietnam’s imports of textile, garment, leather and footwear materials from Argentina increased by 57 per cent to $ 36.84 million; to Austria – up by 44 per cent to $ 1.43 million; and to Indonesia – up by 32 per cent to $ 38.92 million.

However, the imports from the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and Canada decreased by 24.6 per cent; 21 per cent; 20.5 per cent and 25.2 per cent over the same period last year.

Market	October of 2017	October of 2017 vs. September of 2017 (%)	First 10 months of 2017	First 10 months of 2017 vs. same period of 2016 (%)
Total	470,391,008	4.61	4,547,213,071	8.45
China	176,383,064	-0.6	1,703,847,381	10.36
South Korea	56,927,375	3.57	628,284,076	-3.39
Taiwan	38,181,003	-4.91	416,050,669	5.51
The U.S	32,761,720	0.52	293,544,426	25.1
Japan	24,516,328	18.35	203,554,868	10.58
Italy	24,237,653	52.87	198,828,922	12.51
Thailand	22,190,539	21.85	189,488,101	8.73
Hong Kong	19,140,198	-7.2	180,506,674	3.32
Brazil	9,519,222	-7.32	116,364,734	-10.84
India	12,003,053	27.35	89,026,470	5.85
Indonesia	3,859,680	6.83	38,919,353	32.3
Argentina	3,579,027	-9.57	36,842,994	56.97
Germany	2,959,199	34.7	28,958,113	4.77
Malaysia	2,779,423	23.61	24,777,582	1.86
Australia	1,848,957	-5.2	20,341,188	-20.65
New Zealand	1,953,396	11.74	18,047,184	-20.93
Pakistan	1,781,524	7.84	17,550,927	-8.15
Canada	97,526	-53.78	15,303,622	-25.16
Britain	1,383,349	47.94	11,279,961	-10.86
Spain	1,113,439	87.15	9,539,493	-16.42
Poland	790,968	-9.28	5,978,164	-17.31
France	558,513	-23.73	5,672,312	-13.67
The Netherlands	307,127	118.96	2,474,173	-24.64
Singapore	74,097	-49.73	1,717,986	13.66
Austria	28,628	-64.03	1,429,407	43.99