About 14,200 tonnes of Vietnamese tea, worth over US$22.5 million, was shipped to Taiwan between January and September, marking a year-on-year increase of 6.1 per cent in volume and 8.3 per cent in value.
Viet Nam exported 120,000 tonnes of tea in 2018, earning revenue of US$219 million, a year-on-year decrease of 8.4 per cent in volume and 3.4 per cent in value, respectively.
The Vietnamese tea sector should work harder to improve the quality of its exports in order to better tap the global market, including Russia, experts have said.
Representatives of tea-growing regions and tea companies in Viet Nam recently took part in a seminar in New York to seek opportunities to enter the US market.
Tea exports in the past 11 months reached 118,000 tonnes, earning US$197 million, increasing 7.1 per cent in volume and 4.3 per cent in value compared to the same period last year.
Viet Nam exported 88,000 tonnes of tea in the first eight months of the
year, earning US$140 million, according to the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
Tea export turnover in the first half of 2013 increased 3.3 per cent
over the same period last year to reach US$94 million, despite export
volume slipping by 0.4 per cent.