Viet Nam's natural rubber exports in the first five months of this year reached a volume of 424,000 tones worth US$620 million, up 17.4 percent compared to the same period in 2017.
The production of natural rubber was more than 1.08 million tons in 2017, accounting for 8.3 percent of the world’s total production. The rubber sector earned US$2.25 billion from the export of rubber latex and US$1.9 billion from the export of rubber wood products.
