In the first two months of the year, Vietnam earned $1.1 billion from exporting mobile phones and components, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).
The MoIT said that this figure equivalent to that of garment and textile exports has contributed to raising the export turnover of the processing industrial group to more than $9.75 billion (up 42.1 per cent).
Of the fuel and minerals group, coal exports saw a record rise of 34.5 per cent in volume but a decrease of 29 per cent in value from a year earlier.