Vietnam’s exports of wood and furniture increased by over 17 per cent over the same period last year to nearly $ 1.8 billion, showed the statistics figures of the General Department of Customs.

In March only, the country’s exports of wood and furniture reached $ 713.1 million, increased sharply by 57 per cent month – on – month.

The U.S was leading the list of the country’s major export markets of wood and furniture in the first quarter of this year with the export turnover of $ 691.5 million, up by 16 per cent year – on –year and accounted for 39 per cent of the total. It was followed by china with $ 276.5 million, up by 62.6 per cent; Japan - $ 256.9 million, up by 6.6 per cent; and South Korea - $ 143.8 million, up by 16.6 per cent.

In the first quarter of this year, Vietnam’s exports of wood and furniture to Czech increased by 73 per cent to $ 0.3 million; to China – up by 62.6 per cent to $ 276.5 million; to Denmark – up by 63.5 per cent to $ 5.9 million; and to Sweden – up by 52.5 per cent to $ 10.9 million.

However, the exports to Hong Kong; Turkey; Portugal; Switzerland and Saudi Arabia decreased by 65.7 per cent; 61 per cent; 37.5 per cent; 35.8 per cent and 34.5 per cent, respectively.

Item	First quarter of 2017	First quarter of 2016	First quarter of 2017 vs. same period of 2016 (%)
Total	713,148,527	1,780,029,487	+17.1
Furniture	518,394,894	1,293,011,023	+14.3
The U.S	278,000,095	691,467,499	+16.0
China	114,052,731	276,527,024	+62.6
Japan	100,561,346	256,878,549	+6.6
South Korea	61,567,056	143,840,881	+16.6
The U.K	30,711,922	73,940,683	-8.7
Germany	14,290,197	40,133,595	+16.5
Australia	13,725,859	35,453,412	+14.2
Canada	12,684,139	34,310,230	+9.9
France	9,610,446	27,279,062	+6.4
The Netherlands	9,247,676	24,217,495	+9.5
Taiwan	5,017,672	13,928,697	-1.9
India	4,236,514	12,241,710	-5.0
Sweden	3,916,912	10,856,415	+52.5
Italy	3,726,614	10,740,201	+20.6
Malaysia	4,736,006	10,593,823	+34.0
Spain	3,729,257	9,673,953	+36.6
Belgium	3,374,940	8,304,091	-2.1
Denmark	2,224,589	5,919,273	+63.5
Poland	2,220,178	5,400,237	-3.5
The U.A.E	1,956,887	5,292,618	+26.2
New Zealand	2,011,916	4,601,785	+10.1
Thailand	1,532,767	4,568,384	+7.1
Singapore	1,856,818	4,354,760	+26.2
Hong Kong	1,542,981	4,064,055	-65.7
Saudi Arabia	1,485,610	3,824,739	-34.5
Kuwait	1,116,454	2,346,189	+36.1
Greece	936,900	2,319,635	+10.7
South Africa	1,213,588	2,220,036	+47.0
Cambodia	1,181,776	2,203,447	-22.0
Mexico	476,455	1,900,248	-16.6
Turkey	939,656	1,612,556	-61.1
Russia	377,597	1,374,305	+33.4
Norway	404,492	1,079,303	-1.8
Portugal	167,931	858,482	-37.5
Finland	322,858	439,413	-29.1
Austria	173,955	426,018	-16.3
Switzerland	161,211	346,847	-35.8
Czech	158,985	342,960	+73.3