Tran Thanh Binh from the Import and Export Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade, said the wood industry, like all trade sectors, could not avoid difficulties.
Exports of wood and wood products in the first four months of the year were worth nearly US$3.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6 per cent, according to the General Department of Customs.
Viet Nam gained more than US$1 billion from the export of wood and wood products in October, up 22.69 per cent year-on-year, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
Export turnover of wood and wooden products reached nearly US$3.12 billion in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 18.3 per cent,.
The agriculture sector needed strategies to push wood export value beyond US$11 billion this year and to a develop production chain and value-added export products.
Viet Nam''s export market for wood products will enter a golden period,
according to Vice Chairman of the Handicraft and Wood Industry
Association of HCM City (HAWA) Huynh Van Hanh.
The Viet Nam Wood and Forestry Association expects the nation to earn
US$6.2 billion from the export of wood and wooden products this year,
higher than $5.5 billion last year.