The country’s outbound shipments stood at US$32.2 billion in the Aug. 1-20 period, compared with $22.9 billion a year earlier.
By sector, outbound shipments of memory chips, a key export item, rose 39.8 percent on-year, and those of autos increased 37 percent despite global supply shortages of automotive chips.
Exports, which account for half of the economy, rose 29.6 percent on-year in July to a record high of US$55.4 billion in July, extending their gains to the ninth straight month.