Electronics industry growing despite Covid-19

Strong demand: Containers are loaded on a ship at the Saigon port in Ho Chi Minh City. The export of handsets and components contributed US$41.02bil (RM170.24bil), up 11.5% year-on-year. — AP

HANOI: Vietnam’s electronics industry, an increasingly important sector of the country’s economy, continues to grow despite the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Amid the pandemic, the sector brought home US$77.58bil (RM322bil) over the past nine months of 2021, statistics from the General Department of Customs showed.