Also in February, Vietnam stepped up imports of many items from Japan, of which CBU cars saw the strongest increase of 220.54 per cent to 9.32 million USD. However, in the first two months of the year, the import value of this commodity group still decreased by 63.72 per cent over the same period, reaching only 12.39 million USD.

In the total import turnover of goods from Japan in the first two months of 2020, there were 7 commodity groups reaching the value of hundreds of millions of USD, of which 3 groups had good growth and 4 groups saw slight decrease in import value.

Computers, electronic products and components accounted for the largest market share of 27.48 per cent to reach 850.73 million USD, up by 39.17 per cent over the same period last year. Other machines, equipment, tools and spare parts accounted for 21.59 per cent to 668.44 million USD, down by 6.82 per cent compared to the same period last year. Iron and steel scraps was a commodity group with a strong growth of 113.96 per cent in turnover, reaching 146.11 million USD.

Among the turnover of tens of millions of USD, the group of glass and glass products also experienced a good growth with 133.53 per cent compared to 2 months of 2019 to reach 34.46 million USD.