The country’s outbound shipments stood at US$12.7 billion in the Aug. 1-10 period, compared with $8.69 billion a year earlier.
By sector, outbound shipments of memory chips, a key export item, rose 44.6 percent on-year, and those of telecommunication goods soared 75.7 percent.
Exports of petroleum products increased 33 percent on-year as oil prices rose amid the global economic recovery.