Vietnam's FDI attraction down in first two months (2)

Among 25 countries and regions having invested in Vietnam during the first two months this year, Japan ranked top with 258 million dollars which made up 40.9 percent of the total FDI to Vietnam so far this year, followed by China's Taiwan with 81.4 million dollars (12.9 percent) and Singapore with 56 million dollars (8.9 percent). China has two new projects capitalized at 214,734 U.S. dollars.

During the two-month period, the FDI sector's export value ( including crude oil) is estimated to reach 12.2 billion dollars, up 27.3 percent year on year and accounting for 64.34 percent of the country's total export value.

Meanwhile, its import value hit 9.24 billion dollars, up 13 percent year on year, and accounting for 53.41 percent of the country's total import value.

As a result, the FDI sector recorded a trade surplus of 2.96 billion dollars during the two-month period, higher than the country's trade surplus of 1.67 billion dollars, reported MPI.