(VOVworld) - Vietnam shipped abroad phones and phone components worth 30 billion USD last year, up 27.9% from a year earlier, according to the General Department of Customs. A report of the department showed that Vietnam’s goods exports amounted to 162 billion USD in 2015, a rise of 7.9% against 2014, with shipments of phones and phone parts making up nearly 20% of the total. Phones and phone components topped the list of export earners last year, followed by apparel with 22.8 billion USD. The European Union was Vietnam’s biggest importer of phones and phone parts last year, followed by the United Arab Emirates and the US.