Local CPI in first six months up 3.3%

This is the latest report on consumption price index (CPI) in the first half of the year released by provincial Department of Industry and Trade (DoIT).

Accordingly, commodities slightly increased by 1.43%; services by 8.1%; US dollar by 1.66% and gold by 5.9%. Provincial DoIT also said that the province’s total retail sales revenue of commodities and services in the first half of the year was estimated at more than VND80billion. Noticeably, the foreign investment sector saw a growth of 33.2%.

Over the past time, there was a stable operation in terms of domestic trade with ample supply of goods and reasonable prices. Provincial DoIT implemented a lot of market prize stabilization programs; effectively carried out a program of bringing Vietnamese goods to rural areas, industrial parks and compounds…

Reported by M.Nguyen-Translated by K.T