Vietnam Exported More Than 500 Million Medical Masks In The First Half Of The Year, With Europe And The United States As The Main Export Markets

According to the statistics of the General Administration of customs, Vietnam exported 36.5 billion medical masks in the first half of the year.

With labor advantages, textile industry has become the third pillar industry of Vietnam's export, and Vietnam has also leapt to the third largest textile and clothing export country in the world, after China and India. Data show that Vietnam's total textile export in 2019 is as high as 39 billion US dollars. Among them, the European and American markets are the important export markets of Vietnam's textile industry.

Since the outbreak of "Xinguan" pneumonia, Vietnam, as the third largest textile export country in the world, has suffered serious losses due to the loss of textile orders. In order to meet the needs of epidemic prevention, Vietnam has continuously expanded the production capacity of masks, and regarded it as one of the measures for textile enterprises to diversify, increase exports and tide over difficulties. Since April, with the better control of the epidemic situation in Vietnam, the export of masks has risen sharply. In April and may, 140 million and 182 million medical masks were exported respectively. The United States, Germany, Singapore, South Korea and other countries and regions are the main export markets of Vietnamese masks.

However, some experts said that although Vietnam has advantages in the production scale of the textile industry, there are still obvious shortcomings in the industrial chain. If Vietnam lacks the ability to produce raw materials, it needs to import a large number of foreign countries every year.