According to data released by the General Department of Customs in Vietnam, the Asian country exported 943.03 million US dollars’ worth of footwear in May and 3 888.9 million US dollars in the first five months of this year, increasing 9.5% and 21.2%, respectively, compared to similar periods last year.

The US was the country’s main footwear export market in the first five months of the current year with a turnover of  1 255.6 million USD million, and accounted for 32.3% of the total. Sales to the US increased 6.1% in May compared to previous month of April, and 5.6% when compared to May 2013.The most relevant variation, thought, is when we compare the exports during the period January / May in 2014 to similar period in 2013: exports were up by 21.2%, showing the growing importance of the Vietnamese industry as a supplier of the US market.

Other main destinations in the period January / May were Belgium (275.4 million US dollars, up by 37.6%), United Kingdom (212.1 million US dollars, up by 0.7%), Japan (212.1 million US dollars, up by 38.2%) and Germany (209.0 million US dollars, up by 34.8%).

Worthing special mention in the first five months of this year are the country’s export of footwear to Finland, Chile, Israel, Poland and the U.A.E increased by 152.0%, 83.4%, 80.6%, 71.5% and 58.0%, respectively.