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Vietnam leather and footwear exports up 31%

06/07/2011

Vietnam’s leather and footwear exports in the first six months of the year reached nearly $3 billion, up 31% year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) on 5 July, 2011.

The Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (LFA) said that many domestic producers already received export orders for the second half of the year, making the volume of export orders in 2011 increase by roughly 20% compared to last year, and the orders’ prices surge by roughly 7-1%.

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