Laos-Cambodia trade surges to US$210mil in 2022

Don Sahong in Champassak province is a hydropower plant that exports electricity to Cambodia. – Ekaphone Phouthonesy

VIENTIANE (Vientiane TImes/Asia News Network): The value of two-way trade between Laos and Cambodia reached US$210 million in 2022, up from US$160 million in 2021, according to a report in the Phnom Penh Post.

“Market platform Trading Economics indicates that imports from Laos of items in the “mineral fuels, oils, distillation products” category – or Chapter 27 of the Harmonised System – made up US$142.49 million, or nearly 89 percent, of the more than US$160.9 million worth of goods collectively that Cambodia exported to and imported from Laos in 2021,” the Phnom Penh Post stated.