Võ Hùng Dũng

Vietnam’s economic renovation has recorded many successes, of which foreign trade plays its part. Based on the systematic and reliable statistics as well as an in-depth and comparable analysis, the article presents the status of Vietnam’s import - exports performance in the 1976-2000 period, and analyses the relationships between foreign trade and the agricultural and industrial production and suggests a series of solution. The remarkable successes of Vietnam’s foreign trade in the 1991-2000 period include a reduction of trade deficits and an annual export growth of 23 per cent on average. Nevertheless Vietnam’s foreign trades have basically relied mainly on the exports of raw materials; these weaknesses are simply because of the natural outcome of an appropriate structure of the economy in general, and of industrial and agricultural structure in particular.
The main content of the article includes:

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2. The import - export performance in the 1976-2000 period, export growth, trade relations with foreign countries and territories,
   
3. Trade balance and policy towards foreign exchange rates, general assessment of foreign trades in the 1991-2000 period
   
4. Industrial and agricultural production in relations with foreign trade and comments
   
5. Some opinions about investment capital and the work on training human resources; industrial and agricultural and foreign trade policy. Remarks on macro - policy

Economic Studies No.10 (293) 2002 p.3-11