HANOI, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent over 2.2 billion U.S. dollars importing completely-built automobiles and components for assembly between January and May, down 3.7 percent on-year.
In the five-month period, Vietnam imported 42,000 completely-built automobiles worth 850 million U.S. dollars, up 3.2 percent in volume but down 12.9 percent in value, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Tuesday.
Vietnam imported 113,567 completely-built automobiles, mainly cars and trucks, totaling approximately 2.3 billion U.S. dollars, last year, posting respective declines of 9.5 percent and 21.7 percent, said the country's Ministry of Industry and Trade.
In 2016, Thailand was Vietnam's biggest automobile supplier with 34,336 vehicles, followed by India, South Korea and China.
