For the first ten months of 2006, Ministry of Trade declared cotton import turnover of US $181,158,350 by trading in of more than 150,354 tons.
Out of the total import, most of the goods were imported from India.
Although Vietnam's economy is based on agriculture, it mainly has to imports cotton leading to difficulty in supplying raw material to industry, experts opined.
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Fibre2fashion.com News Desk-Vietnam