Myanmar-Thailand border trade hit over 900 mln USD in 1st quarter of FY 2018-19

Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-12 14:40:24|Editor: Xiaoxia
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YANGON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Bilateral border trade between Myanmar and Thailand reached 937.4 million U.S. dollars in first three months of current fiscal year 2018-2019 which started in October, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Saturday.

From Oct.1 to Dec. 28, 2018, the country's export to neighbouring Thailand amounted to 700 million U.S. dollars while its import reached 237 million U.S. dollars.

Among all the border gates, Hteekhee topped the list with 588.49 million U.S. dollars of trade.

The country's agricultural and fishery products are exported to Thailand while cosmetics, machinery, food products and agricultural equipment are imported to the country.

Bilateral trade between Myanmar and Thailand totaled over 5 billion U.S. dollars in last FY 2017-2018.

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