Vietnam looks set to miss footwear export target

04/01/2017
Vietnam’s footwear industry looks likely to have grown its export revenues by 8% in 2016, the country’s customs authorities said at the end of December. The government had set shoe production companies a target of achieving growth of 10%.

Customs officials said the total value of footwear exports until December 15 was $12.3 billion. The target amount the government set at the start of 2016 was $17 billion.