Vietnam Plus is reporting that garment and textiles exports increased in August for the fourth month in a row, with US$3.4 billion exported, up 5.5% month on month. Customs data from September, however, reveals that this upward run was short-lived with textile and garment exports reaching just US$2.57 billion in September, down 25.5 percent on August. This brings the total textile and garment exports for the year to US$25.1 billion a 13.6 percent drop year-on-year.

Top 10 export markets for Vietnam textiles and garments, September 2023

	September (US$)	Year to day (US$)
USA	1,014,571,306	11,008,870,254
Japan	360,588,123	2,938,721,423
South Korea	351,286,606	2,430,439,836
Canada	81,901,069	848,643,870
China	79,692,963	827,491,050
Netherlands	63,605,704	705,433,643
Germany	45,672,727	631,791,523
Cambodia	76,453,836	612,430,467
United Kingdom	43,833,716	503,499,960
Spain	43,712,461	415,090,755

Source: General Department of Customs

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