Vietnam’s exports are expected to total 113 billion USD this year, 4 billion USD over the target earlier in the year, said Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Planning Department Nguyen Tien Vy.

The price of SJC gold in HCM City on October 2 rose to VND47.45-47.75 million per tael, up VND250,000 per tael from the previous transaction session.

Vietnam earned 2.3 billion USD from exporting agro-forestry and fishery products in September, pushing the total revenue for nine months of this year to 20.4 billion USD, up 10.2 percent year on year.

The Mekong Delta has exported 377,000 tonnes of tra fish, worth 1.1 billion USD so far this year, to 133 countries and territories across the world.

The country's textile and garment sector achieved a trade surplus of 5.3 billion USD in the first eight months of 2012, a year-on-year increase of 24 percent.