Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, the wood industry still enjoyed 3.2 billion USD in exports in the first four months of 2020, up 6 percent year on year, thanks to businesses’ efforts to switch to online trading and find new markets.  During the period, about 7 percent of members of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of Ho Chi Minh City (HAWA) had to halt operation while 51 percent cut output. About 45 percent of their employees were also laid off temporarily.  However, HAWA members still earned more than 1 billion USD from ...