In the first five months of this year, the country’s exports of textiles and garments to the U.S increased by 12.4 per cent to $ 5.15 billion; to the EU – up by 12.1 per cent to $ 1.43 billion; to Japan – up by 22.6 per cent to $ 1.39 billion; and to South Korea – up by 22 per cent to $ 1.09 billion.

Especially, in the period, the exports of textiles and garments to Finland increased sharply by 123 per cent over the same period last year to $ 5.96 million; to Angola – up by 121 per cent to $ 6.57 million; to Turkey – up by 96.8 per cent to $ 19.23 million; to Poland – up by 69.3 per cent to $ 23.43 million; to Myanmar – up by 65.9 per cent to $ 9.19 million; to Egypt – up by 65.2 per cent to $ 2.33 million; and to Hungary – up by 60.4 per cent to $ 1.84 million. 

In the first five months of this year, Vietnam’s exports of textiles and garments to CPTPP countries accounted for 17.1 per cent of the total with $ 1.87 billion. Of the figure, the exports to Japan increased by 22.6 per cent to $ 1.39 million; to Singapore – up by 22 per cent to $ 39.16 million; to Canada – up by 17.4 per cent to $ 230.29 million; to Australia – up by 16 per cent to $ 79.41 million.

Market	May of 2018	May of 2018 vs. April of 2018 (%)	First 5 months of 2018	First 5 months of 2018 vs. same period of 2017 (%)
Total	2,354,185,238	11.25	10,914,651,632	16.23
The U.S	1,089,220,607	5.37	5,146,642,027	12.4
Japan	282,546,617	9.83	1,393,406,953	22.57
South Korea	172,330,586	-17.64	1,087,562,388	21.95
China	113,645,712	43.27	481,735,483	48.43
Germany	71,034,297	21.94	288,248,626	11.65
Britain	57,924,334	13.04	272,872,766	3.68
Canada	64,641,940	39.02	230,290,364	17.4
The Netherlands	60,641,475	32.05	220,422,481	8.07
France	44,775,486	27.99	193,068,470	22.33
Cambodia	44,805,482	112.03	170,340,329	37.07
Spain	36,425,271	76.31	152,264,800	8.72
Italy	25,170,099	20.91	92,399,718	12.43
Belgium	20,398,677	-4.24	88,297,343	11.77
Hong Kong	23,558,376	57.25	86,080,088	8.06
Australia	16,386,124	6.7	79,409,905	15.95
Taiwan	16,576,436	26.17	79,117,338	-0.23
Indonesia	13,342,886	-4.88	66,642,034	25.73
Thailand	14,396,934	38.58	56,534,537	46.5
Russia	20,583,861	29.02	55,825,269	-22.24
Chile	9,529,361	5.28	40,755,404	7.29
Malaysia	10,079,418	14.05	39,735,618	6.99
Singapore	8,319,762	21.74	39,161,053	21.96
The Philippines	12,680,231	59.3	38,367,067	16.77
The U.A.E	8,646,396	11.9	37,430,193	9.38
Mexico	9,171,227	19.05	35,006,250	5.73
Denmark	8,333,113	6.4	34,907,955	43.63
Sweden	8,468,598	44.51	32,454,644	23.31
Poland	5,370,481	8.71	23,433,836	69.25
Brazil	4,475,729	27.93	22,436,813	7.69
India	6,645,323	67.39	21,607,455	25.18
Bangladesh	4,052,254	-0.81	21,048,701	-8.35
Saudi Arabia	3,876,389	-23.77	19,402,311	2.4
Turkey	5,078,211	28.15	19,233,828	96.84
Austria	6,384,020	36.54	17,607,840	4.06
South Africa	2,128,580	-12.98	11,776,310	6.53
Norway	1,745,532	29.59	9,618,439	21.78
Myanmar	2,072,462	6.77	9,187,588	65.87
Argentina	1,666,934	2.04	9,025,832	8.07
Israel	1,940,828	53.7	7,957,800	7.19
Panama	2,304,116	84.93	7,739,631	23.35
New Zealand	1,308,377	3.77	7,609,745	11.54
Angola	2,527,775	198.44	6,567,582	121.06
Finland	1,654,354	471.34	5,961,213	123.18
Czech	1,657,456	78.81	4,779,687	54.8
Switzerland	677,882	-6.95	4,564,030	17.37
Greece	1,175,478	91.11	3,603,030	-19.11
Nigeria	803,548	61.77	3,338,905	-17.9
Laos	1,058,325	69.76	2,541,938	6.71
Egypt	620,352	65.64	2,333,801	65.21
Hungary	507,846	-18.32	1,841,082	60.41
Ukraine	623,835	16.75	1,708,482	32.53
Ghana	1,025,388		1,101,625	-46.72
Slovakia	132,724	127.58	445,254	-42.39
Senegal	92,040		92,040	-70.28