Viet Nam has become the largest footwear exporter to Brazil, accounting for 52.8% of that country's market share.

Viet Nam exported 335.66 million USD worth of footwear to Brazil last year, the Industrial and Trade Information Centre said, beating Indonesia, China and Paraguay.

The country exported footwear worth 86.90 million USD to Brazil by the end of the first quarter of this year.

Viet Nam, Indonesia, China and Paraguay, besides Italy are among the major countries exporting footwear to Brazil.

The leather and footwear industries achieved a year-on-year increase of 24.8% in output to touch 130.7 million pairs of footwear, and a 19.5% rise in the export value of footwear to reach 4.6 million USD during the first five months of this year.

(Source: VNA)