Estimates from Vietnam’s General Statistics Office show that the country’s exports for the last nine months increased 19.4% compared with the prior-year period, totalling $35.2 billion.

Data showed that footwear is now the country’s third largest export earner, up 13.1% year-on-year to $3 billion. The only categories now beating footwear are textiles and clothing and crude oil.

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